Graffito

Caesar ut ad Venerem venet (:venit) sanctissimam ut tui te vexere pedes
caelestes Auguste millia milliorum ponderis auri fuit


Findspot Pompeii, Casa di Giulio Polibio (IX.13.3)
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (1)
Prope EDR076753 et EDR079714
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1: ad Venerem sanctissimam = ad oppidum Veneris, i.e. Pompeii
Hi versuus metrici esse possunt (5).
Hic Caesar est Nero, quoniam sua coniunx, Poppaea, in titulo supra (EDR076753) in eodem pariete, nominata est.
Fortasse Nero et Poppaea munera oppido Pompeis post terrae motum dederunt (6).
Bibliography Rend. Ac. Arch. Nap., 49, 1974, p. 22-25, nr. 5; fig. 2 con foto (C. Giordano) - AE 1977, AE 1985 (1)
AE 1977, 0218 (2)
AE 1985, 0284 (3)
HD003341 (4)
Quad. Urb. Cult. Class. 48, 1985, pp. 88-90 (P. Cugusi) (5)
J. Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est: Studies in the Political Life of Imperial Pompeii, Ann Arbor 2001, pp. 124-125 (6)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR076754 (7)
Link to EDR #EDR076754
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR076754, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR076754> [accessed: 03 Apr 2025]
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