Graffito about a soldier in Pompeii

Floronius
binet ac miles
leg(ionis) VII hic
fuit neque
mulieres
scierunt nisi
paucae et
ses erunt


Translation Floronius . . ., soldier of the 7th legion, was here, and women didn't know, except for a few – and there were six!
Findspot Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Location metadata ➜
Precise Location col. CV, stria 18
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (6), periit (11). Quaesiverunt sed non invenerunt Zimmermann Damer, Sypniewski, et Benefiel a. 2019 (AGP).
v. 2: BENEF(iciarius) AC MILES (1)
v. 8: (SE) DEDERUNT (1); SESERUNT (= sederunt?) (9)
In eadem columna EDR168362, EDR168360, EDR168358, EDR168357, EDR168348, EDR168349, EDR168347, EDR168345, EDR168341
Bibliography CIL 04, 08767 (1)
Not. Sc., 1939, p. 293, nr. 336, fig. 16a (M. Della Corte) - AE 1980 (2)
Glotta 38, 1969, pp. 125-134 (N.J. Herescu) - AE 1980 (3)
Par. Pass., 28, 1973, pp. 213-215, Nr. 3 (V. Pisani) - AE 1980 (4)
Cron. Pom., 2, 1976, pp. 229-230 (M. Gigante) - AE 1980 (5)
AE 1980, 0262 (6)
Epigraphica 45, 1983, pp. 65-73 (P. Le Roux) - AE 1986 (7)
AE 1986, 0165 (8)
J. N. Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary, London 1990, p. 165 (9)
A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana: iscrizioni d'amore sui muri di Pompei, Rome 1994, p. 64 (10)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL vol. IV collecti sunt, Imagines, Roma 2012, vol. I, p. 182 con apografo (11)
HD004264 (12)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR077698 (13)
Link to EDR #EDR077698
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR077698, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR077698> [accessed: 05 Dec 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Holly Sypniewski, Ruck / Rebecca Benefiel, Holly Sypniewski

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

Last Revision: 2025-07-09

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