Moralising maxim on a communal table at Hippo Regius

Moralising maxim on a communal table at Hippo Regius created by Mirko Tasso MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00441 361950 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/441 Lost unknown unknown complete None None None incised 0.0-0.0 Hippo Regius 395-430 Hippo Regius The inscription, now lost, was probably commissioned by Augustine and attached to a table (or written on the wall of the dining hall?) of the episcopium. 36.8825 7.75127 no

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Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere vitam, hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sibi.

Text follows CLE 2861. v. 1: absentum rodere vitam, cfr. Or. sat. 1, 4, 81 (absentem qui rodit amicum).

Whoever takes pleasure in belittling the lives of absentees shall know that this table does not deserve them.

Cf. also Zarker 116 = ILJug 1980 = CLE 2686.

ILAlg 1, 88 II CLEAfr, 150 CLE 2861 G. Sanders, Lapides memores: païens et chrétiens face à la mort, Faenza 1991, 519-527. D. Pikhaus, Répertoire des inscriptions latines versifiées de l'Afrique romaine (Ier– VIe siècles), Bruxelles 1994, 112.