Graffito

〈:vacat〉VIRIII
〚Romai〛 fueere (:fuere) quondam opulentissimi,
non ideo tenuerunt in manu sceptrum pro mutunio
itidem, quod tu factitas cottidie (:cotidie) in manu penem tenes (:tenens).


Findspot Pompeii, Basilica (VIII.1.1)
Location metadata ➜
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (5) et mensurae secundum (1)
v. 1: primum verbum erasum et plane incertum. VIRIII legit (5); VIBII legunt (1) (7); Cugusi et Spal similiter putant verbum erasum esse cognomen cuiusdam gentis Vibiae (6) (7).
v. 2: dubitanter ROMAI legit (1); [[PUM[PEI]S]] legunt (8) (10); FUEERE pro FUERE.
v.3: TENES pro TENENS (5); COTTIDIE pro COTIDIE; MUTINUM, id est, PENIS ut in Priapea 25 (6) (7)
Titulus invectivus ad personam est contra Vibios, gens praeclara Pompeiis.
Carmen constat septenariis trochaicis ut alia carmina oscena. Vitia metrica permulta (8)
Bibliography CIL 04, 01939 con apografo (1), cfr. p. 213 (2), 465 (3), 704 (4), pp. 1717 (5)
CLE 0231 (6)
Zeitschr. Pap. Epigr., 61, 1985, p. 28 (P. Cugusi) (7)
E. Courtney, Musa Lapidaria. A Selection of Latin Verse Inscriptions, Atlanta 1995, p. 303 (8)
A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana. Iscrizioni d'amore sui muri di Pompei, Naples 1994, pp. 91-92 (9)
Arctos, 38, 2004, pp. 46-47 (P. Kruschwitz) (10)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL Vol. IV collecti sunt imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II, pp. 389-390 con foto (11)
A. Spal, Poesie-Erotik-Witz. Humorvoll-spöttische Versinschriften zu Liebe und Körperlichkeit in Pompeji und Umgebung, Berlin - Boston 2016, pp. 33-45. (12)
P. Lohmann, Graffiti als Interaktionsform: Geritzte Inschriften in den Wohnhäusern Pompejis, Berlin 2018, p. 112 (13)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR193269 (14)
Link to EDR #EDR193269
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR193269, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR193269> [accessed: 13 Oct 2025]
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Last Revision: 2024-09-28

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