Graffito

minimum malum fit contemnendo maxumum (:maximum). Menedemerumenus


Findspot: Pompeii, Basilica (VIII.1.1)
Location metadata ➜
Language: Latin
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus secundum (1) et mensurae secundum apographon apud (1).
Sententia (minimum malum...) recurrit in tit. Pompeiano CIL IV 1870 (EDR193267) et Herculanensi CIL IV 10634 (EDR153355).
Verbum MENEDEMERUMENUS, quo nomen fabulae Terentianae Heauton timorumenos et nomen Menedemus coaluerunt, additur (4).
Verbum MENEDEMERUMENUS amplissime videtur Pompeiis ut notissima vox. Scriptum est diversis modis, vel litteris quadratis vel litteris cursivis. Tres scriptores, fortasse e Casa del Menandro et Casa dei Quattro Stili, addunt verbum Menedemerumenus carminibus (8).
Bibliography: CIL 04, 01870 con apografo Tab. XIV 2 (1), cf. p. 464 (2), p. 1702 (3)
CLE 0035 (4)
E. Courtney, Musa Lapidaria. A Selection of Latin Verse Inscriptions. Atlanta 1995, p. 305 (5)
A. Cooley and M.G.L. Cooley, Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London 2004, p. 78 (6)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL Vol. IV collecti sunt imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II, p. 370 con foto. (7)
Tyche 27, 2012, pp. 93-111 (P. Kruschwitz, V. Campbell, M. Nicholls) (8)
K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii. Oxford 2014, p. 176-177 (9)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR193267 (10)
Link to EDR: #EDR193267
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR193267, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR193267> [accessed: 05 Nov 2024]
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Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Alessandra Tafaro

Last Revision: 2024-07-06

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