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Identification

Reference as: MPL00604
Title Funerary inscription for Sabidia
Trismegistos-No. 587894

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Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, unknown
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
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Current Location Details unknown/ lost
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Object Details

Object Type slab
Material unknown
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: unknown

height: unknown

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

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Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
  • Elegiac couplet
  • iambo-trochaic rhythm
Rhythmisation Mixed scheme

Inscription & Translations

SABIDIA mulieris LFVSCAVAXIIX

TVQVITENDESITERPROPERATIMSISTEPARVMPERSIGRAVENON
ANIMOSTFATAQVEACERBALEGE
TERSENOSAETASMEACVM
PROCESSITINANNOSETMESPECIEFLORENTEMMEIVIDERESODALES

5FRATREMFLENTEMEXPARTEALTERA
DOLEREMATERNOLI
FACIVNDVMHOCFVITPROPERAVITAETASVOLVITHOCFATVSMEVS

PRAEVENEREDIEMMEAECRVDELIAFATAETRAPTAMINFERNA
MEIPOSVERERATEMHOCLECTOELOGIOIVVENESMISERETEIACENTIS
ETDICDISCEDENS:SITTIBITERRALEVIS
LFAENIVSMALCHIOP
10FAENIAL mulieris LHILARAMPSABIDIVSFORTVNF
Sabidia ((mulieris)) l(iberta) Fusca v(ixit) a(nnis) XIIX.

Tu qui tendes iter properatim, siste parumper, si grave non
animost, fataque acerba lege.
Ter senos aetas mea cum
processit in annos et me specie florentem mei videre sodales,

5fratrem flentem ex parte altera.
Dolere mater noli,
faciundum hoc fuit. Properavit aetas, voluit hoc Fatus meus.

praevenere diem meae crudelia Fata et raptam inferna
mei posuere ratem. Hoc lecto elogio iuvenes miserete iacentis,
et dic discedens: sit tibi terra levis.
L(ucius) Faenius Malchio p(ater)
10Faenia L(uci) ((mulieris)) l(iberta) Hilara m(ater) P(ublius) Sabidius Fortun(atus) f(rater).
Sabidia ((mulieris)) l(iberta) Fusca v(ixit) a(nnis) XIIX.

Tu qui tendes iter properatim, siste parumper,
si grave non animost, fataque acerba lege.

Ter senos aetas mea cum processit in annos
et me specie florentem mei videre sodales,
fratrem flentem ex parte altera.

Dolere mater noli, faciundum hoc fuit.
Properavit aetas, voluit hoc Fatus meus.

praevenere diem meae crudelia Fata
et raptam inferna mei posuere ratem.
Hoc lecto elogio iuvenes miserete iacentis,
et dic discedens: sit tibi terra levis.
L(ucius) Faenius Malchio p(ater) Faenia L(uci) ((mulieris)) l(iberta) Hilara m(ater) P(ublius) Sabidius Fortun(atus) f(rater).
Apparatus

l.7 reg., orig. praevenere
l.9 reg., orig. Malchio

Text follows CIL.
l. 2: tendis
l. 5-6: fratrem flentem ex parte altera, not included by CLE, which also separates the following two verses from the main carmen.
l. 7: diem (vitae) meae
l. 8: mei; me posuere rate

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameSabidia Fusca
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeSubadult (13–20) [expression: Canonical]
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameLucius Faenius Malcio
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator
  • NameFaenia Hilara
    GenderFemale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicator
  • NamePublius Sabidius Fortunatus
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator

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Editing History

Created 2025-02-11, by Alexander Gangoly
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:02:47, ID there: EDR185015
Revisions
  1. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-12-07 10:02
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 11:32
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 12:53
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 12:56
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 15:10
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 15:17
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 15:18
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