Inscriptions: Epitaph of the freedman Faustus

Identification

Reference as:	MPL00878
Title	Epitaph of the freedman Faustus
Trismegistos-No.	223085

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Urso
Find Context	Unknown. Text and material transmitted in XVI century manuscript by Fernández Franco (1765 copy by M. J. Díez de Ayora y Pinedo consulted in Loza Azuaga and Sedeño Ferrer).
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Lost
Inventory number
Current Location Details
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HD029413"}, {"coords": [37.8489, -3.5603], "id": 869, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/869", "long_id": "MPL00869", "place": "Ossigi", "text": "Hic TV[---]-RE iaces [---]-nina pu{u}e[lla] qu(a)e\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Ossigi, bei \u2013 Jimena - Torres, zwischen (Baetica) - HD027503"}, {"coords": [38.0081, -3.36853], "id": 2206, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2206", "long_id": "MPL02206", "place": "Salaria", "text": "Gemina, D(ecii) Pu-blici Subici ser(va), an(norum)\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/j8.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the slave Gemina by the coppersmith Caius"}, {"coords": [36.4678, -5.92787], "id": 2207, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2207", "long_id": "MPL02207", "place": "Asido", "text": "Murcia liberta, iuvenis an(norum) XXVIII. Semp\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of the freedwoman Murcia"}, {"coords": [38.9161, -6.3401], "id": 2221, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2221", "long_id": "MPL02221", "place": "Emerita Augusta", "text": "M(arcus) Helvius, (mulieris) lib(ertus), Mar-sua, \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of the freed couple Marcus Helvius Marsua and Mallia Galla"}, {"coords": [38.9161, -6.3401], "id": 2225, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2225", "long_id": "MPL02225", "place": "Emerita Augusta", "text": "Iulia C(ai) f(ilia) Anulla hic sita est, fato p\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$Edmondson-2021_00007.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Iulia Anulla and of the freedwoman Candilia Iucunda by the freedman Lucius Iulius Felix"}, {"coords": [37.7073, -5.34643], "id": 2218, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2218", "long_id": "MPL02218", "place": "Celti", "text": "D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum). Atimeti lib(erta) Fabia \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/se23.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the freedwoman Fabia Merope"}, {"coords": [36.5293, -6.29312], "id": 2252, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2252", "long_id": "MPL02252", "place": "Cadiz", "text": "Romana c(ara) s(uis) an(norum) XX h(ic) s(ita) e(s\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of Romana"}]

Object Details

Object Type	unknown
Material	local stone
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	unknown
Religion	Unknown

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence Praescriptum + carmen
Scriptio Continua in verse part no
Abbreviations in verse part no

Prose Verse Presence	Praescriptum + carmen
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	no

Text

Function	funerary inscription
Language(s)	Latin
Verse Type(s)	Elegiac couplet Hemiepes
Rhythmisation	Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

------
CLFAVSTVSXXANN
HSE

STTL

IMMATVRATVIPROPERANTVRTEMPORAFATI
PRIMAQPRECIPITILIMINEVITARVIT
5VIGINTITECVMNAMFERSNONAMPLIVSANNOS
SETDECVITTALEMLONGIORHORAVIRVM

------
C(ai) l(ibertus) Faustus, XX ann(orum),
h(ic) s(itus) e(st).

S(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis).

Immatura tui properantur tempora fati,
primaq(ue) precipiti limine vita ruit.
5Viginti tecum nam fers non amplius annos,
set decuit talem longior hora virum.

------ C(ai) l(ibertus) Faustus, XX ann(orum), h(ic) s(itus) e(st).

S(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis).

Immatura tui properantur tempora fati,
primaq(ue) precipiti limine vita ruit.
Viginti tecum nam fers non amplius annos,
set decuit talem longior hora virum.

Apparatus

l.4 reg., orig. precipiti
l.6 reg., orig. set

Text follows CIL 02 (2nd ed.).
l. 1: C(aius) Laelius, CLEBaeticae; Martín Camacho 2014.

Main Translation

Translation	... Faustus, freedman of Caius, lies here at the age of twenty years. May the earth be light upon you. The time of your fate proceeds in haste, and the early years of your life tumble down the edge of a precipice. For you carry with you no more than twenty years, but a loinger life would be fitting for a man of your standing.
Citation	Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

La hora de tu destino se apresura antes de tiempo y tu vida, que apenas ha comenzado, se precipita hacia una morada sin retorno. Pues tienes en tu haber no más de veinte años y una vida más larga hubiese sido lo adecuado para un hombre como tú. (Spanish, C. Fernández Martínez)
...... Fausto, liberto de Gayo, de 20 años, aquí está enterrado. Sea para ti la tierra leve. El tiempo de tu destino se apresura prematuramente y tu vida juvenil se desliza por el umbral del abismo. En efecto, te llevas contigo poco más de veinte años, pero convino a tal varón un tiempo más prolongado. (Spanish, J. González Fernández (CILA))
Gayo Lelio Fausto, de veinte años, aquí está enterrado, que la tierra te sea leve. Prematuro se apresura el tiempo de tu destino, y tu vida se desmorona precipitadamente desde su primer umbral. Pues te llevas contigo no más de veinte años, sin embargo se debió haber concedido una hora más larga a un hombre como tú. (Spanish, J. M. Camacho (CLEBaeticae))

Prosopographical Information

Name Faustus
Gender Male
Age Range Subadult (13–20) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
Legal Status Freedman / Freedwoman
Role Dedicatee

Name	Faustus
Gender	Male
Age Range	Subadult (13–20) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
Legal Status	Freedman / Freedwoman
Role	Dedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by González Fernández (CIL 02 [2nd ed.]).

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

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

Bibliography

CIL 02, 01413
CLE 01069
ILER 05795
CILA 02, 03, 00662 (with Spanish translation)
CIL 02 (2nd ed.), 05, 01055 (also on dating)
CLEBaeticae SE5 (with Spanish translation and photo of manuscript page, 59)
E. Hübner, Los más antiguos poetas de la península. In: J. Valera (ed.), Homenaje á Menéndez y Pelayo en el año vigésimo de su profesorado. Estudios de erudición española. Con un prólogo de Juan Valera, Vol. 2, Madrid 1899, 350, nr. 9. 🔗 link
J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 438-439, nr. 1166. 🔗 link
S. Mariner Bigorra, Inscripciones hispanas en verso, Madrid 1952, 89, 112. 🔗 link
L. L. Tels-de Jong, Sur quelques divinités romaines de la naissance et de la prophétie, Delft 1959, 114. 🔗 link
M. L. Loza Azuaga, D. Sedeño Ferrer, Referencias antiguas sobre la necrópolis de Osuna. In: J. González Fernández (ed.), Estudios sobre Urso, Colonia Iulia Genetiva, Seville 1989, 184, n. 2 (on manuscript versions) 🔗 link
J. Thigpen, A literary analysis of Latin epitaphs from Roman Spain which contain creative biographical discourse, Chapel Hill 1995, 7-8, 330, nr. 22. 🔗 link
C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 493, nr. 1069 (Spanish translation of ll. 3-6 🔗 link
R. Hernández Pérez, Poesía latina sepulcral de la Hispania romana: estudios de los tópicos y sus formulaciones, Valencia 2001, 10, n. 30, 15, 286, n. 1060. 🔗 link
J. Salas Alvárez, Imagen historiográfica de la antigua Urso (Osuna, Sevilla), Seville 2002, 34. 🔗 link
J. A. Pachón Romero, J. I. Ruiz Cecilia, Las cuevas de Osuna. Estudio histórico-arqueológico de una necrópolis de la Antigüedad, Osuna 2006, 371-376, nr. 4 (with Spanish translation) 🔗 link
J. Martín Camacho, Edición y comentario filológico de CIL II/5, 1055 y CIL II/5, 1079. La necesidad de contar con el entorno epigráfico para estudiar los Carmina Latina Epigraphica. In: Baetica Renascens, Vol. 1, Seville 2014, 147-159 - AE 2015, HEp 2014-2015 🔗 link
AE 2015, 00575
HEp 2014-2015, 0559A
CLEO SE17 🔗 link
EDCS-08701133 🔗 link
HD031619 🔗 link
HEpOl 3297 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

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Editing History

Created	2025-11-25, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status	Complete
Import Notice	Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:05:55, ID there: HD031619

Revisions

by Unknown
at 2024-07-11 12:05
by Eric Andreas Kunz
at 2024-08-10 11:44
by Anna Pokorny
at 2025-01-29 15:53
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-11-21 09:36
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-11-21 09:37
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-11-21 10:01
by Chiara Cenati
at 2025-11-25 18:22

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