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Identification

Reference as: MPL01163
Title Funerary inscription for Marcia Cypare
Trismegistos-No. 260843

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Firmum Picenum
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Current Location Fermo, Palazzo Bernetti, Largo Evangelista, 1
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type stele
Material local stone
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 52.7 cm

height: 195.2 cm

depth: 8.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.7
Letter Size in cm (max) 6.6
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceProse + Verse
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Phalaecian hendecasyllabus
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

[]MARCIOFRVGI
MARCIAELFCYPARE

[]ONTEQVIPROPERASVIATORIRE
[]ISTESHENDECASYLLABITENEBVNT
5QVITCREDASHOMOTEMPORIFVTVR
[]AVCISHICTIBICASVSINDICABIT
[]VLCIPONDERECVMGRAVATA
[]ATERINCLVSOVTERODECEMK
[]VDEBATPVERIEDIDISSEPARTVS
10[]TISIAMQVEPATERDEOSROGABATVT
[]RIMOSPVERIVIDERETANNOSMOXCAS
[]RISIVVENEMDARETLEGENDVMFOR
[]VNADVMMAGNASTVDETAEMVLARE
[-?] Marcio Frugi,
Marciae L(uci) f(iliae) Cypare.

[N]on te, qui properas viator ire,
[tr]istes {h}endecasyllabi tenebunt.
5Quit credas homo tempori futur(o),
[p]aucis hic tibi casus indicabit.
[D]ulci pondere cum gravata
[m]ater incluso utero decem k(alendas)
[ga]udebat pueri edidisse partus,
10[vo]tis iamque pater deos rogabat ut
[p]rimos pueri videret annos, mox cas-
[t]ris iuvenem daret legendum, for-
[t]una dum magna studet aemulare.
[-?] Marcio Frugi, Marciae L(uci) f(iliae) Cypare. -

[N]on te, qui properas viator ire,
[tr]istes {h}endecasyllabi tenebunt.
Quit credas homo tempori futur(o),
[p]aucis hic tibi casus indicabit.
[D]ulci pondere cum gravata [m]ater
incluso utero decem k(alendas)
[ga]udebat pueri edidisse partus,
[vo]tis iamque pater deos rogabat
ut [p]rimos pueri videret annos,
mox cas[t]ris iuvenem daret legendum,
for[t]una dum magna studet aemulare.
Apparatus

l.5 Quit orig., reg. quid
l.13 aemulare orig., reg. aemulari

Text follows CIL and Squadroni, checked by Squadroni in 2003.

Main Translation

Translation By [...] Marcius Frugi [...] for Marcia Cypare, daughter of Lucius.
Not you, the passer-by who is keen to go,
will mournful hendecasyllables hold.
What confidence you may have had in the future, man,
this misfortune will reveal to you in a few [words].
When a mother, pregnant with a sweet weight
confined to her womb for ten Kalends,
rejoiced in having given birth to a baby boy
and his father was already asking the gods in his prayers
that he would see the boy’s first years
and soon permit the young man to be selected for the army life, while Fortune is keen to emulate the greats.
Citation Faithful, P., War and Peace. Military Lives and Identities in Latin Verse Inscriptions, p. 686.

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameMarcius Frugi
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator
  • NameMarcia Cypare
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 101 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)

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Editing History

Created 2026-08-28, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-07-25T11:02:28, ID there: EDR015624
Revisions
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    at 2024-07-25 11:02
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-08-22 20:36
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  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-11-18 12:46
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-11-18 13:15
  11. by Chiara Cenati
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  12. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-01-29 14:16
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    at 2026-01-29 14:17
  14. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-01-29 14:18
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