Quotation from Vergil

Mille meae
Siculis errant

Translation My 1000 (lambs - not mentioned here) wander in the Sicilian...
Findspot Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Location metadata ➜
Precise Location col. LXI, stria 15
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (2). Mensura altitudinis secundum (1), aliae mensurae secundum (2). Periit (6). Contulerunt Sypniewski et Benefiel (AGP) a. 2019. Lapsu tectorii non invenitur.
v. 1-2: initium versus Verg. Ecl. 2.21 (mille meae Siculis errant in montibus agnae)
De eodem carmine Pompeiis, vide EDR160232
Infra EDR127140, EDR127231. Hic titulus in eodem loco ut EDR127234 scriptus est, qui ad perpendiculum scriptus erat.
Permulti tituli in eadem columna inveniuntur: EDR127816, EDR127817, EDR127818 (stria 5); EDR127819 (stria 6); EDR127820 (stria 6-10); EDR127821 (stria 6-7), EDR127822 (stria 7); EDR127823, EDR073638 (stria 10); EDR167589 (stria 13); EDR127826, EDR127827 (stria 14); EDR167628 (stria 16-17)
Bibliography Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 267, nr. 147 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08625c (2)
Présence de Virgile. Actes du Colloque des 9, 11, et 12 décembre 1976, Paris 1978, p. 94-98 (D. Joly) (3)
M. Gigante, Civilità della forme letterarie nell'antica Pompei, Naples 1979, p. 166 (4)
Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, Oxford 2009, p. 316 nr. 53 (K. Milnor) (5)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum Pompeianorum qui in CIL vol. IV collecti sunt Imagines, Roma 2012, vol. I, p. 145 con foto et apografo (6)
A. Cooley and M. Cooley, Pompeii and Herculaneum: a Sourcebook (2 ed.), New York 2014, p. 292-293 (7)
K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape of Roman Pompeii, Oxford 2014, p. 159, 270 (8)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR127233 (9)
Link to EDR #EDR127233
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR127233, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR127233> [accessed: 19 Jun 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Emily Crawford, Holly Sypniewski

Contributors: H. Sypniewski, H. Busby, C. Hartline, J. Rach, B. Wright, M. Yorio

Last Revision: 2019-09-03

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