Beginning of a poem?
cant(icuere) (:conticuere)
| Translation | They were silent (conticuere?) |
|---|---|
| Findspot |
Pompeii, Terme del Sarno
(VIII.2.17-23)
|
| Language | Latin |
| Writing Style | Graffito/incised |
| Apparatus Criticus | Textus secundum (1)-(7); mensurae ex apographo apud (1) v. 1: littera C est 6,0 cm apud (1) v. 1: Est ne CONT(ICUERE)? (1); Initio versus Verg. Aen. II.1. Infra EDR159685 Locus inventionis: VIII.2.20 (1). Totum aedificium, Terme del Sarno, continet VIII.2.17-23 et multos ingressus habet. De eodem carmine, vide EDR159667, EDR151447, EDR148511, EDR159669, EDR159670, EDR159671, EDR159672, EDR159673, EDR159675, EDR159677, EDR159678, EDR125001, EDR159680, EDR159681, EDR159685 |
| Bibliography | CIL 04, 04877b con apografo (1) Epigraphica 2, 1940, p. 177 (M. della Corte) (2) R. P. Hoogma, Der EinfluĂ Vergils auf die Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Amsterdam 1959, p. 236-37 (3) M. Gigante, CivilitĂ 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-EDR159686 (9) |
| Link to EDR | #EDR159686 |
| Suggested Citation | AGP-EDR159686, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR159686> [accessed: 02 Apr 2025] |
| Contributions |
Editor: Rebecca Benefiel Principal Contributor: Holly Sypniewski Contributor: 20 Last Revision: 2022-08-17 |