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). Contulerunt et 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: 21 Nov 2024]
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: 2021-12-23

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