Ancient Graffiti Project :: Graffito Information

Multa mihi curâe cum +esserit (:presserit?) artus
has ego mancinas stagna refusa dabo

Symbol	Meaning
(:abc)	Gives standard spelling to explain non-standard text in an inscription (used by EDR and AGP)
âbc	Letters joined in ligature, each letter that is joined to the next letter is indicated by a caret
+	Illegible/unclear character
?	Represents uncertainty

Translation	When the weight of concern weighs down my limbs I use this left hand to let the deep waters overflow
Findspot	Pompeii, Casa dei Postumii/Casa di Olconio (VIII.4.4) Location metadata ➜
Language	Latin
Writing Style	Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus	Textus secundum (10). v.1: INESSERIT (1); ((signum))ESSERIT, Il segno non ha determinato intelligenza (2); . . ESSERIT (4); P aut O, tum ESSERIT (5); [OBS]ESSERIT (7); [PR]ESSERIT (8) v.1: CURÂE (8), ÂE in nexu videntur apud apographa (1)(4). Hic titulus formam distichi elegiaci paene habet, sed primus versus pede uno caret. Solvitur ab verbo addito (MOLES) MULTA (3)(8)(9) aut (SOMNUS) CUM (4).
Bibliography	Giornale degli scavi di Pompei, 1, 1861, p. 44 et con apografo tav. XI (G. Fiorelli) (1) Bull. Arch. It., 1862, p. 51 (G. Minervini) (2) F. Buecheler, Carmina Latina Epigraphica, 1895, p. 440 n. 956 (3) CIL 04, 02066 con apografo (4), cfr. Add. p. 215 (5), Add. p. 465 (6), Add. p. 704 (7) A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, 2002, p. 94 (8) K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Pompeii, 2014, p. 265 (9) http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR175929 (10)
Link to EDR	#EDR175929
Suggested Citation	AGP-EDR175929, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR175929> [accessed: 02 Apr 2025]
Contributions	Editor: Rebecca Benefiel Principal Contributor: Matthew Panciera Contributor: 4 Last Revision: 2020-08-17