Funerary slab for Q. Septimius Antonius and Q. Septimius Antoninus created by Johanna Rath MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00741 186160 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/741 Split, Archaeological Museum AMS A 2552 slab limestone fragmentary 35.0 69.0 15.0 chiselled 1.0-2.0 Salona 1-300 Salona 43.5396 16.4834 no

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Quintus Septimus Antonius Quintus Septimus Antoninus

(c) Archeological Museum Split
Quinto Septimio Antonio defuncto annorum XVIII mensium V dierum II et Quinto Septimio Antonino defuncto annorum XXII mensium XI dierum XXIII. Ego Antonius umbra tenus have tibi dico meator quam vis festinanti gradu carpas iter resiste paulum et lege casum Sic ego VAMMAFIretinere cupisco spiritumMCMreliquit malignusque casus MA corpori toto post cuius exitiumque funeris terreterrae datas decubui propePO I noctesque diesque iam trahor in tenebras ducorque amplectere fratrem hoc fatali casu datum est percam nunc Tartara divo reliquiasque meas curentC orbati parentes iam casum cognovisti meum feliciter perge viator decepti senes testemur funera natuum et pietas titulo deplorat fata parentum

Text follows CIL, drawing checked by Johanna Rath, 2024

Quintus Septimus Antonius, deceased at the age of 18 years 5 months 2 days, and Quintus Septimus Antoninus, deceased at the age of 12 years 11 months 23 days. I, Antoninus a mere shadow, greet you wayfarer. Though you walk with a hasty step, rest a little and read my fate. Thus I, [...] retain body and spirit [...] left behind. And an evil fate […] entire body after whose departure and burial under the earth, I lay near […] days and nights. Now I am being dragged into darkness and led to embrace my brother. By this fatal chance, I am now given to Tartarus; my bereaved parents will take care of my remains. You have now learned of my fate, go on happily, traveller. We, deceived, in our old age have to witness the death of our children, and our love laments in this inscription our fate as parents.

Yo, Antonino, una simple sombra, te saludo, paseante. Aunque recorras tu camino con paso apresurado, deténte un poco y lee mi suerte. Así yo *** y un pérfido azar *** en to- 5 do mi cuerpo *** y después de cuya muerte *** he caído en tierra *** días y noches. Me arrastro entre tinieblas, y me dirijo, por la fuerza, a abrazar a mi hermano. Esto me ha ocu- rrido por culpa de un desdichado azar; proseguiré mi cami- no ahora y llegaré hasta el Tártaro; mis padres, que se han lo quedado sin mí, cuidarán de mis cenizas. Ya has conocido mi suerte: sigue tranquilo, caminante. A nuestra edad avanzada, frustrados, tenemos que ser testigos de la muerte de nuestros hijos, y nuestro cariño lamenta, en este epitafio, nuestro triste destino de padres.

CIL 03, 14850 CLE 01950 C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 267, no. 1950 (Spanish translation) https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD060785 | HD060785 https://www.mqdq.it/public/ce/testo/codice/CE%7cce%7c1950 | MQDQ