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Reference as: MPL01526
Title Funerary inscription for L. Licinius Severus
Trismegistos-No. 553225

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Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
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LLICINIVSPRISCVSETFABIAEVPLIA
LLICINIOSEVEROFILIOPIENTISSIMO
PARENTES

DEGENITOREMIHIDOMVSVMBRIADEGENITRICE
5OSTIA:TYBRISIBIVITRIVSNARHICCLVITALBVS
ILLEEGOQVIVIXIBISDENOCIRCI[]ESOLIS
FLOREGENASTENEROVERNANSETROBOREPOLLENS
MILESERAMSVMDEINDECINISDEMILITEFACTVS
NECSOLVMHOCQVIAMERAPVITFATVMMALEFECIT:
10QVODPATERACMATERPLANGVNTHOCPLVSMALEFECIT
[]ACTV[]STEXCESSI:SPESETFORTVNAVALETE
NILAMPLIVSINMEVOBISPERSECVLALICEBIT:
QVODFVERATVESTRVMAMISIQVODERATMEVMHICEST
L(ucius) Licinius Priscus et Fabia Euplia
L(ucio) Licinio Severo filio pientissimo
parentes.

De genitore mihi domus Umbria, de genitrice
5Ostia: Tybris ibi vitrius, Nar hic cluit albus.
Ille ego, qui vixi bis deno circi[t]e solis,
flore genas tenero vernans et robore pollens,
miles eram; sum deinde cinis de milite factus.
Nec solum hoc, quia me rapuit fatum, male fecit:
10quod pater ac mater plangunt, hoc plus male fecit.
[F]actu[m]st, excessi: Spes et Fortuna valete;
nil amplius in me vobis per secula licebit:
quod fuerat vestrum, amisi; quod erat meum hic est.
L(ucius) Licinius Priscus et Fabia Euplia L(ucio) Licinio Severo filio pientissimo parentes.

De genitore mihi domus Umbria, de genitrice
Ostia: Tybris ibi vitrius, Nar hic cluit albus.
Ille ego, qui vixi bis deno circi[t]e solis,
flore genas tenero vernans et robore pollens,
miles eram; sum deinde cinis de milite factus.
Nec solum hoc, quia me rapuit fatum, male fecit:
quod pater ac mater plangunt, hoc plus male fecit.
[F]actu[m]st, excessi: Spes et Fortuna valete;
nil amplius in me vobis per secula licebit:
quod fuerat vestrum, amisi; quod erat meum hic est.
Apparatus

l.5 reg., orig. vitrius
l.11 reg., orig. Factumst
l.12 reg., orig. nil | reg., orig. secula

Text follows CIL and AE.
l. 11: Actumst CLE.

Main Translation

Translation Lucius Licinius Priscus and Fabia Euplia, parents, for their most pious son, Lucius Licinius Severus.
From my father home, for me, was Umbria, from my mother
Ostia; there is glassy Tiber, here flows the white Nar.
I, I am that man who lived for twenty rotations of the sun;
blooming with the tender down of youth on my cheeks and strong in my vigour, I was a soldier. Then I, from a soldier, have been made into ashes.
Not only was Fate wrong because it seized me,
but because my father and mother lamented loudly, that made it even worse. It has passed, I have died. Hope and Fortune, farewell!
Now you will not be allowed to do any more to me through the ages.
What was yours, I have lost; what was mine, is here.
Citation Faithfull 2024

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  • NameL. Licinius Severus
    GenderMale
    OriginForeign
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    ProfessionMilitary staff
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameL. Licinius Priscus
    GenderMale
    OriginForeign
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicator
  • NameFabia Euplia
    GenderFemale
    OriginForeign
    RoleDedicator

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Created 2025-11-26, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-22T15:00:12, ID there: EDR130570
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-22 15:00
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-06 14:29
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-04 14:30
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-11-19 14:43
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-11-26 16:18
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