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        <editor>Rebecca Benefiel</editor>
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          <name>Hammad Ahmad</name>
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          <date>2025-07-09</date>
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        <publisher>Ancient Graffiti Project</publisher>
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        <date>2026</date>
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              Ercolano (Napoli), Insula Orientalis I.2, Casa del Rilievo di Telefo
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      <div type="edition" xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="la"><ab><lb n="1" />Qui · se tutari · nescit · nescit · vivere<lb n="2" />Minimum · <choice><reg>malum</reg><orig>malu</orig></choice> · fit contemnendo · maximum</ab></div>
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        <p>Textus et mensurae secundum (1); periit (8).&lt;br&gt;Quaesivit sed non invenit Benefiel (HGP) a. 2016.&lt;br&gt;vv. 1-2:  II pro littera E scriptum &lt;br&gt;v. 1: lat.: 18,5; litt. alt.: 0,3-1,7 (1)&lt;br&gt;v. 2: lat.: 18,0; litt. alt.: 0,3-1,3 (1)&lt;br&gt;De eadem sententia in Pompeiis vide CIL 04, 01811 et 01870 Add. p. 464.</p>
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        <p>He who does not know to guard himself does not know how to live. The tiniest trouble, if ignored, becomes tremendous (i.e. the smallest evil becomes the greatest).</p>
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        <p>CIL 04, 10634 (1)&lt;br&gt;M. Gigante, Civiltà delle forme letterarie nell'antica Pompei. Napoli 1979, p. 149 (2)&lt;br&gt;Quad. Urb. Cult. Class., 19, 1985, p. 94 (P. Cugusi) (3)&lt;br&gt;Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John Bramble. Oak Park, IL 1987, p. 87-88 (E. Rawson) (4)&lt;br&gt;Tyche, 27, 2012, p. 98-99 (P. Kruschwitz, V. Campbell, and M. Nicholls) (5)&lt;br&gt;K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii. Oxford 2014, p. 176-177 (6)&lt;br&gt;A. Spal, Poesie-Erotik-Witz, Berlin 2016, p. 142-143 (7)&lt;br&gt;http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR153355 (8)</p>
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        <p>Poetic graffito</p>
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