Epitaph of Aufidia Agathe by her husband Caius Aufidius Fidelis created by Anna Pokorny Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-29T10:23:52, ID there: EDR171806 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL01933 496942 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/1933 Urbino, Palazzo Ducale, Museo del Lapidario di Urbino 40809 stele marble complete 46.0 80.0 None Inscription within moulded frame. chiselled 0.0-0.0 Sassina 101-200 Sassina Sarsina (Forlì-Cesena), left bank of the river Savio, 1746. 43.9194 12.1422 no

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Aufidia Agathe Caius Aufidius Fidelis

(c) Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum - BBAW
Dis Manibus. Aufidiae Agathe Caius Aufidius Fidelis libertae et coniugi bene merenti. Si meritis possem dare munera tantum, quanta tibi debentur praemia laudis, aureus hic titulus et littera nominis auro condecorata legi debet, tam simplici vita quae superis semper tam grata fuisti. Inter securas sine crimine vitae sit precor et super hoc sit tibi terra levis.

Text follows CLE and CIL 11. Picture checked by Spalla 2025. ll.7-14: hexameters with a missing foot (CIL 11).

To the Manes. Caius Aufidius Fidelis made this for his most deserving freedwoman and wife Aufidia Agathe. If I could offer you gifts equal to your merits, as much praise as you are due, this epitaph should be embellished with gold and the letters of your name also adorned with gold, for you were so honest and beloved among the living. I pray you are among those who rest in peace for their guiltless life, and that the earth may be light upon you.

Könnt' ich für dein Verdienst den Entgelt, den rechten, dir geben, so wie es dir gar wohl als Lobspruch könnte gebühren, müßte die Grabschrift hier in Gold und die Lettern des Namens auch in Gold hier stehn bei doch so einfachem Leben, die den Himmlischen du ja stets willkommen gewesen.

Si pudiera ofrecerte unos dones acordes a tus merecimientos, tantos cuantas alabanzas se te deben en premio, este epitafio debería leerse en oro y las letras de tu nombre, embellecidas también con oro, porque fuiste tan amable y de una vida tan sencilla aquí en la tierra. Ruego para que estés entre las que nada temen -pues han tenido una vida intachable- y te deseo además que te sea ligera la tierra.

Dating proposed by B. Casella in EDR171806.

CLE 02, 01088 CIL 11, 06551 H. Geist, Römische Grabinschriften. Gesammelt und ins Deutsche übertragen von Hieronymus Geist, betreut von Gerhard Pfohl, München 1969, 36, nr. 37 (German translation of the poem without the final pentameter) C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 499-500, nr. 1088 (Spanish translation of the poem) https://db-edcs-eu.uaccess.univie.ac.at/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-23200846 | EDCS-23200846 http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?do=book&id_nr=EDR171806 | EDR171806 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1088 | MQDQ