Beginning of a poem?

can̂t(icuere)


Translation They were silent (conticuere?)
Findspot Pompeii, Terme del Sarno (VIII.2.17-23)
Location metadata ➜
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (1)-(8); mensurae ex apographo apud (1).
v. 1: littera C est 7,0 cm (1)
v. 1: Est ne CONT(ICUERE)? (1); Initio versus Verg. Aen. II.1.
Locus inventionis: VIII.2.20 (1). Totum aedificium, Terme del Sarno, continet VIII.2.17-23 et multos ingressus habet.
Supra EDR159686
De eodem carmine, vide EDR159667, EDR151447, EDR148511, EDR159669, EDR159670, EDR159671, EDR159672, EDR159673, EDR159675, EDR159677, EDR159678, EDR125001, EDR159680, EDR159681, EDR159686
Bibliography CIL 04, 04877a con apografo (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)
M. Gigante, Civilità della forme letterarie nell'antica Pompei, Naples 1979, p. 77 (4)
Boll. Stud. Lat. 38, 2008, p. 490 (P. Cugusi) (5)
Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, Oxford 2009, p. 303-305, 313 nr. 34 (K. Milnor) (6)
K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape of Roman Pompeii, Oxford 2014, p. 233-62 (7)
A. Cooley and M. Cooley, Pompeii and Herculaneum: a Sourcebook (2 ed.), New York 2014, p. 292-93 (8)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR159685 (9)
Link to EDR #EDR159685
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR159685, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR159685> [accessed: 02 Apr 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Holly Sypniewski

Last Revision: 2022-08-17

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