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Conti[c]u[e]re o(mnes)
〈:vacat〉 Siqua
C[-]ạtit quatit

Symbol	Meaning
[abc]	Letters once present, now missing due to damage to the surface or support
[- - -]	Damage to the surface or support; letters cannot be restored with certainty
a(bc)	Abbreviation; text was never written out; expanded by editor
ạḅ	Characters damaged or unclear that would be unintelligible without context
〈:abc〉	Explanation of editor, either subaudible word or regarding the layout of the text, e.g.〈:col. I〉 (used by EDR and AGP)

Translation	(They all) fell silent. If any(?). It shakes (?) It shakes.
Findspot	Pompeii, Casa degli Epigrammi (V.1.18) Location metadata ➜
Language	Latin
Writing Style	Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus	Textus secundum (1) v. 1: initio versus Verg. Aen. II.1 De eodem carmine, vide EDR159667, EDR148511, EDR159669, EDR159670, EDR159672, EDR159673, EDR159675, EDR159677, EDR159678, EDR125001, EDR159680, EDR159681, EDR159685, EDR159686
Bibliography	CIL 04, 04036 (1) Epigraphica, 2, 1940, p. 177 (M. della Corte) (2) R. P. Hoogma, Der Einfluß Vergils auf die Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Amsterdam 1959, p. 236-37 (3) Boll. Stud. Lat. 38, 2008, p. 478-534 (P. Cugusi) (4) Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, Oxford 2009, p. 303-305, 313 nr. 29 (K. Milnor) (5) K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape of Roman Pompeii, Oxford 2014, p. 233-62 (6) A. Cooley and M. Cooley, Pompeii and Herculaneum: a Sourcebook (2 ed.), New York 2014, p. 292-293 (7) http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR159671 (8)
Link to EDR	#EDR159671
Suggested Citation	AGP-EDR159671, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR159671> [accessed: 03 Apr 2025]
Contributions	Editor: Rebecca Benefiel Principal Contributor: Holly Sypniewski Last Revision: 2021-08-01