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Reference as: MPL00039
Title Vergilian verses on a tile
Trismegistos-No.

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Find Place Tasgetium
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Object Type tile
Material masonry of bricks
State of Preservation fragmentary (only partially adjoining fragments)
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Execution Technique graffito
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Function literary quotation
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
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Inscription & Translations


[]CEANVMINTEREA
S[]ENSAVRARELIQVID
[]SQVA[]VAETSO
[]TE[]SH
5[]

[O]ceanum interea
s[urg]ens Au(ro)ra reliquid
[Aenea]s qua[mq]ua(m) et so-
[ciis dare] te[mpu]s h-
5[umandis]

[O]ceanum interea s[urg]ens Au(ro)ra reliquid
[Aenea]s qua[mq]ua(m) et so[ciis dare] te[mpu]s h[umandis]
Apparatus

l.2 reliquid orig., reg. reliquit

Text follows Lieb 1993.
Quotation of Verg. Aen. XI, 1-2.

Main Translation

Translation Up from the sea now soared the dawning day:
Aeneas, though his sorrow bids him haste
to burial of the slain....
Citation T. C. Williams 1910

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Created 2026-07-24, by Chiara Cenati
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  1. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-24 12:07
  2. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-24 12:11
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