Poetic graffito

Venimus,
venimus
hoc cupidi,
multo magis ire cupimus.

Translation We came! We came here desiring, much more do we desire to go
Findspot Herculaneum, House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
Location metadata ➜
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus et mensurae secundum (1); periit (11)
Contulit et non invenit Benefiel (HGP) a. 2016.
De aliis exemplis huius carminis, vide EDR151415, EDR159410, EDR159411, EDR159559, EDR159381, EDR159382, EDR159412, EDR159558, EDR159408, EDR159413, EDR159522
v. 1: lat: 2,7; litt. alt.: 0,2-0,4 (1)
v. 2: lat: 3,0; litt. alt.: 0,2-0,4 (1)
v. 3: lat: 3,6; litt. alt.: 0,2-0,5 (1)
v. 4: lat: 7,0; litt. alt.: 0,2-0,7 (1)
Prope EDR153483, EDR153484, EDR153485, EDR153486
Bibliography CIL 04, 10640 (1)
Neue Forsch. Pomp., 1975, p. 252 sg. (H. Solin) (2)
A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana: iscrizioni d'amore sui muri di Pompei, Rome 1994, p. 54 (3)
Stud. Philol. Val. 6, 2002-2003, p. 275 (R. Hernández Pérez) (4)
Riv. Stud. Pomp. 17, 2006, p. 7 sgg. (P. Kruschwitz) (5)
Stud. Philol. Val. 11, 2008, p. 76 sg. (P. Cugusi) (6)
Stud. Philol. Val. 11, 2008, p. 248 sg. (P. Kruschwitz) (7)
Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives, Lanham, MD 2010, p. 51 sgg. (R. Benefiel) (8)
K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape of Roman Pompeii, Oxford 2014, p. 182 sgg. (9)
A. Cooley and M. Cooley, Pompeii and Herculaneum: a Sourcebook (2 ed.), New York 2014, p. 104, nr. D94 (10)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR153487 (11)
Link to EDR #EDR153487
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR153487, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR153487> [accessed: 24 Apr 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Holly Sypniewski

Last Revision: 2017-08-08

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