Graffito

Sexvir
ego quos
Pompeis (:Pompeiis)


Translation VIvir/Severus, those whom I at Pompeii... (no verb written)
Findspot Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Location metadata ➜
Precise Location col. CXIV, stria 11
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (3) et mensurae secundum (5). Contulerunt Benefiel, Sypniewski et Zimmermann Damer (AGP) a. 2019.
v. 1: SEVER(us) (1)(2)
v. 2: EGO QUOS ... e semplice inversione dei termini, ci troviamo qui davanti alla famosa minaccia Vergiliana, già allora passata in populare proverbio, Aen. I, 135 (quos ego!) (1), pertinet... ad certamen quoddam iuvenale (2). Secundum (4), non est versus Vergilianus.
In eadem columna EDR167427, EDR167429, EDR167430, EDR167442, EDR167443, EDR160169.
Bibliography Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 299-300, nr. 383 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08798, con apographo (2)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL vol. IV collecti sunt Imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II, p. 195, con foto (3)
K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii, Oxford 2014, p. 265 (4)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR167428 (5)
Link to EDR #EDR167428
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR167428, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR167428> [accessed: 25 Aug 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Holly Sypniewski, Erika Damer, Holly Sypniewski

Contributors: E. Zimmermann Damer, C. Creamer, M. Holcomb, M. P. Lewis, J. Rach

Last Revision: 2021-12-18

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