Poetic graffito
Qui · se tutari · nescit · nescit · vivere
Minimum · malu (:malum) · fit contemnendo · maximum
| Translation | He who does not know to guard himself does not know how to live. The tiniest trouble, if ignored, becomes tremendous (i.e. the smallest evil becomes the greatest). |
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| Findspot |
Herculaneum, House of the Telephus Relief
(InsulaOrientalisI.2)
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| Language | Latin |
| Writing Style | Graffito/incised |
| Apparatus Criticus | Textus et mensurae secundum (1); periit (8). Contulit et non invenit Benefiel (HGP) a. 2016. vv. 1-2: II pro littera E scriptum v. 1: lat.: 18,5; litt. alt.: 0,3-1,7 (1) v. 2: lat.: 18,0; litt. alt.: 0,3-1,3 (1) De eadem sententia in Pompeiis vide CIL 04, 01811 et 01870 Add. p. 464. |
| Bibliography | CIL 04, 10634 (1) M. Gigante, Civiltà delle forme letterarie nell'antica Pompei. Napoli 1979, p. 149 (2) Quad. Urb. Cult. Class., 19, 1985, p. 94 (P. Cugusi) (3) Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John Bramble. Oak Park, IL 1987, p. 87-88 (E. Rawson) (4) Tyche, 27, 2012, p. 98-99 (P. Kruschwitz, V. Campbell, and M. Nicholls) (5) K. Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii. Oxford 2014, p. 176-177 (6) A. Spal, Poesie-Erotik-Witz, Berlin 2016, p. 142-143 (7) http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR153355 (8) |
| Link to EDR | #EDR153355 |
| Suggested Citation | AGP-EDR153355, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR153355> [accessed: 26 Mar 2025] |
| Contributions |
Editor: Rebecca Benefiel Principal Contributor: Holly Sypniewski Last Revision: 2017-08-11 |
| More info | Trismegistos: 534733 |
