Poetic graffito

Arma meis atsueta (:adsueta)
umeris tibi debita
ponam, si mea confir=
mas prospera vota
Venus. Syntrophus
〈:vacat〉 auget.


Translation: I will put (down) the weapons accustomed to my shoulders, (which are) owed to you, if you, favorable Venus, answer my prayers. --Syntrophus enhances/augments (this prayer)
Findspot: Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Location metadata ➜
Precise Location: col. LXXXVIII, stria 17
Language: Latin
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus secundum (5)-(6), aliter (1)-(4); periit (7). Contulerunt Sypniewski et Benefiel (AGP) ad imaginem apud (7). Tectorium nimium a. 2019 abrasum est.
v. 1: ANIMA EST (1)-(4)
v. 1: ATSUETA pro ADSVETA
v. 2: CAPERE SIBI DEBITA (1)-(4)
v. 3-4: DONARE. SI MOREM FIR/MAS (1)-(4)
v. 5: SYNTROPHVS ut epithetum Veneris (U pro O permutata = σύντροφος) (2)(4); aliter (5), quo ut nomen scriptoris legitur, et accusativus post AVGET caret.
vv. 5-6: SYNTROPHVS / AVGET legitur ut postscriptum a Syntropho scriptum (6).
Infra EDR168020
In eadem columna EDR167990, EDR167991, EDR168021, EDR168023, EDR168019, EDR168042
Bibliography: Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 283-286, nr. 278 con foto e apografo (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08711b con apografo (2)
M. Gigante, Pompeiana. Raccolta di studi per il secondo centenario degli scavi di Pompei, Napoli 1950, p. 135 (3)
M. Gigante, Civiltà delle forme letterarie nell'antica Pompei, Napoli 1979, p. 209 (4)
Zeitschr. Pap. Ep., 57, 1984, pp. 63-69 (W. Lebek) (5)
Stud. Philol. Val., 11, n.s. 8, 2008, p. 69-70 (P. Cugusi) (6)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL vol. IV collecti sunt Imagines, Roma 2012, vol. I-II, p. 166 con foto e p. 523 con apografo (7)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR168043 (8)
Link to EDR: #EDR168043
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR168043, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR168043> [accessed: 26 Dec 2024]
Contributions:

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Holly Sypniewski

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

Last Revision: 2019-07-23

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