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CIL VI

37965

= CLE

1988

(EPITAPH OF ALLIA

POTESTAS):

A COMMENTARY

Introduction*

Not (Gordon
The text

only

one of the 'philologically Alliafs bristles 148); epitaph

attracted a prodigious volume

most with
of

interesting varied
discussion

of and
in

Latin

inscriptions1 problems.
after

unresolved
the decade

first *
H.Armini, B.Brugi,

publication Bibliography:
?ranos Atti RBPh. Rev.Arch. ap.Gordon,

(Mancini
22,1924,152ff., Ist.Ven. 72.2,1

1912).

1)

Interest

then

slowed

to

a trickle

(but

91 3,

1927,105ff., 829ff.

31,

1933,33ff.,

34,1936,118ff.

G.Castelli,
R.Desmed, M.Durry, P.Flobert: P.Fossataro,

Scritti
47,1

Giuridici,
969,584f. 1961.1,14-5 148.

Milano
= REL

1923.
47.2,1969,258. 20,1913-4,233f.

Athen.2,1914,330ff.,

Boll.Fil.Cl.

A.Gandiglio,
J.Gil,

AR

16,1913,

329ff.
13,1977,288ff.

Cuad.Fil.C?as.

A.E.Gordon, L.Gurlitt,
N.M.Horsfall, W.Kroll, M.Lenchantin

Illustrated Introduction Phil. 73,1914,289ff.

Anc.Soc. Phil. de 73,1914,274ff. Gubernatis, Riv.Fil. (Macquarie)

to

Latin

Epigraphy,

Berkeley

1983,145ff.

12,1982,27ff. 41,1913,385ff., Boll.Fil.Cl. 20,1913-14,

109ff.
A.F.Liljeholm, E.Lommatzsch, G.Mancini, NSc. ?ranos CLE 1988. 21,1923,97ff.

1912.5,155ff. 16,1913,257ff. 1st.Ven.

Mesk,
C.Pascal, P.Rasi, E.Stampini,

BPhw
Atti

35,1915,62.
AR 73,1913-4,687ff. 46,1918,95ff.

Riv.Fil.

J.N.Adams, A.Brelich, E.Diehl, P.Flobert, E.Galletier, H.H?usle, N.M.Horsfall, R.Lattimore, M.Leumann, E.L?fstedt, E.L?fstedt, E.L?fstedt, F.Sommer, J.M.CToynbee, V.V??n?nen, F.Vollmer, E.Wistrand,

The Aspetti

Latin

Sexual della

Vulg?rlateinische Les verbes Das

sur Etude Denkmal Some Problems in Themes Greek Laut-und Philoi.Komment, Sp?tlateinische

London 1982. Vocabulary, 1937. Morte, Budapest Bonn 1910. Inschriften, Paris 1975. deponents, la fun?raire Paris romaine, po?sie als Garant des M?nchen Nachruhms, in and the "Laudatio Latin Epitaphs M?nchen Turiae", (repr.) 1977. Aetheriae, 1908.

1922.

1980. BICS 30,1983,85ff. Urbana 1962. Uppsala 1911.

Lat.

Syntactica, Handb. der Death Introduction Rom. Metrik The So-called

Formenlehre, zur Peregrinatio Studien, Uppsala Lund 1942,1933. lat. and in LautBurial au Latin u. in

Formenlehre, the Roman vulgaire, Turiae,

World, 3Paris G?teborg

3Heidelberg London 1981. 1976.

1948. 1971.

Gercke-Norden, Laudatio

Einleitung.

Abbreviations
are not 1) assistance NSc. included

for
1912.5,155ff.;

standard
here.

texts
H.H?usle,

(CLE),
Das

or works
Denkmal access

of
als to

reference
Garant des

(TLL, LHS,
Nachruhms,

NW)

Zetemata appendix

75,
of

M?nchen
Prof.

1980,97
S.Panciera,

gives
I

some
obtained

bibliography. but this

Thanks
much fuller

to

the

generous
an

lists

works

cited

details;

only

by

author,

does

not

constitute

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N.Horsfall

see

Liljeholm, appears three commentary certain kann man English

Armini): never to

the

commentary have materialised. and such a one

promised

by Recently, 2)

Mme.

G.Lallemant however, there no clarify, 'exakt is Cicero

(REL have

31,

1953,95) been full resolve tieren unnecessary found he did the

translations 3) exists; long-vexed eben nur of

German.

But, should remark serve

strangely, to

reasonably and even

commentary Kroll's

problems. einen despair; of it. wirklichen the A.Allius Though that

(283): oder Denker" and and Allius have

interpre an entirely may have

Dichter editor of unfamiliar Kroll he evaluation. cf. now most calls 'should

admission intellectual to (277) I shall illuminate and offer details

Catullus

world

uncongenial, 'ein written schlechter plain

though

much

Dichter' (146), For and pi.65. Date:

Gordon a more and

suggests positive a photo,

prose'

physical

conveniently,

Gordon

146

the

traditional

consensus

(cf.

Mancini,

Lommatszch,

Lenchantin

de

Gubernatis,
both argued

Kroll)
for an In

was
earlier 1957,

ca.

300.
date

But
on

Pascal
palaeographical proposed and early-Tiberian,

(258)

and

Liljeholm
(c.3 than

(1923,97f.)
and 300. c.2 4) Now the not rule

grounds a date earlier

respectively). Joyce unorthodox out grounds See carry nn. a later S.Gordon date date,

the "on

Gordons epigraphical or second the second for

suggests of

palaeographical though to ca. second in 175. cent." detail; she

grounds... could linguistic (Gordon not all

late-Augustan even favours the

century, half Flobert's of

down the

On

P.Flobert on weight. survey, of can peripheral serve

146).

2,9,12,18,24,25,33

arguments

comprehensive scrutiny ephemera

for issues no good

much

discussion early on insufficient I am also purpose.

is evidence grateful

taken and to

up

with exhumation

vehement of such Erik Wistrand

Prof.

for two problems

warmest gratulations timely tributed more who were

in which he listed letters what he long I hope he will in this this text; accept
thanks invitation valuable for upon many years his 50th. to address remarks, made kindly read of generous Doktorjubilaeum. an Oxford I should and support I seminar doubtless

took to be the outstanding as a token of my paper

and am on also Allia, have con and of stimulus, my a much indebted for con whose members done well to accept and Otto Skutsch, by valuable comments

Erik Wistrand himself by a At still later my ms. stage offered of the editors members of the Harrison, ZPE, Stephen by by by seminar at Rome Silvio Panciera and Stefano epigraphie university (notably a seminar on of Allia at the held Istituto of Scevola Prof. Priuli), Svedese, Mariotti's Via Montevideo seminar G.Cavallo Prof. and Prof. himself, (notably and of at the that di at Istituto Latina Padova. The L.Gamberale), Filologia at me as British School Balsdon Senior Fellow made Rome, by electing possible suggestions both most these 2) invaluable Gordon M.Fant, London 96-7. But cf. Kroll and and Lommatzsch, pillaged Palaeography Milan 1977, whose valuable without of n.2 Latin to collections further inscriptions, ch.10. of acknowledgement. Univ.Cal.Pub. material I 147f.; some Women 1982,137-8. contacts I of with published the in the a faults But this Italian hasty of and learned translation that Rome, a is by Mary Toronto taxing world. in Anc.Soc. in are too (Macquarie) M.Lefko corrected (German)

of

the

12.2,1982,27-9; witz and in ed.2, H?usle, 3) have

R.Lefkowitz piece. 1977,111-3 Cf.

Greece

thoroughly

gratefully to the repr.

Contributions 4) Class.Arch. 3.3,1957,

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CIL VI

37965

= CLE

1988

(Epitaph

of

Allia

Potestas):

A Commentary

253

Distinguished
ment; highly Gavallo though, of (so known thought ambiguous: (a) G.Orlandi pentameters heptameters in Studia and the c.3 and both 'late

specialists
c.2' and 'not authorities. the a on the wavering conclusive stone but this striking The metrical might is

in

the
before

field
c.3'

are
have

evidently
been arguments

in
offered

honest
me

disagree
verbally as Prof. not, format codex almost be less un by G.

competent notes, provide text or

Palaeographical vertical dating suggest a verse argument evidence axes unaided. the text of

(e.g., letters)

numerous The influence where that layout be thought

will square

double-column of the format might a

literary is therefore good deal

later), the otherwise

from may

dangerous.

(cf. di

Aug.Ep. Storia

260, Padana lines

p.619.9 in 31 onore and 49.

and di

620.1-2 G.Martini,

Goldbacher Milano

with 1977,79),

the

anomalous

and
are signs

(b)
of

crura

Atalantes
or

(21)
incompetence, without chronological significance.

inadvertence

(c) Leumann
mid-c.4 266. (d)

the

final in

110;
shortened

syllables 14 note
final

of the
a,

causa

(14) of

and

auro

(40)

are

shortened; 299, 305).

cf. For

influence
cf. P.Carletti

line-end
Colafrancesco,

(Galletier

Rend.Line.

8.31,1976,

lengthening

of

nulla

(15)

in

arsi;

cf.

Carletti

Colafrancesco,

267-8;

contrast (e)
(f) (c)-(f) But against find Roma Pinciana! on Tav.ii,

poterit accentual
distinctively cumulatively we a the should late west Firenze date

(51). shortening
cannot note that (Nock, side of the

of

ill?

quaesitus
metrical than to as c.3.

(23)
structure of 11.

'Commodianic' be the Essays, earlier

reference 1.280)

cremation does the (Carta the

(3

seri?la)

tells of the di the Via

localisation Archeologica from

sepolcretum not, pace

Salarium CIL and

1964,27);

ed.pr.,

Repeatedly,
of the With late fatigor

our
Empire +

earliest
(or infin. later (6)

parallels
still): cf. Greg.Mor.

for

Allius'

idioms

derive

from

texts

(580-90);

with

recedo

concrete

subject part
not (46) also idioms The

(= of the

'be dropped') body (17)

cf. with 43 much

(14) cf.
Iulius felix +

cf.

SHA; with
Paris acc. Allius by

epitaph lacessunt
(c.4-5) of

of

521 AD; with used

and

candida

+ abl.

of (32;
cum Cf.

as

though
with SHA and

lac?rant
comitor Claudian.

quite cf. note only

certain) Vulgate; on

Cod.lust.; (49) +

respect therefore

quandiucunque. later of adopted 'classical'

regularly texts. between deponent

anticipates

the

literary

weakening

distinctions

and

passive

(7?
so is I

6 quaeritur,
the offer range a of revised

24 culpabere)
vulgarisms and expended

is

not

so

suggestive

chronologically;
in

no more

(infra). list of the numerous vulgarisms idiom

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N.Horsfall

and

orthography,

not

all

of

which

have

been

noted:

pretiosior
foras facta for for foris facienda

(1),
(9);

fortis
sola (10);

(8)
=

( =
'maxime for

'strong,
omnium erat

robust'),
praeter (13; cf.

sat
ceteros' 18,22,27);

(9)

( =
(10); quietem

'very'),
perhaps

manebat

scanned (33);

as (?)

spondee 24
an

(15);

sibi (43);

placer? at for ad

(16); (46).

illae Cf.

for also

illi notes

(18); on

ad Troiam 2 de multis,

quandiucumque fuit,
is

14 delapsa
A.Allius

forsan.
well-read, in a small way and idiosyncratically: not

author

one
he

echo
may

of
have

Virgil
known

(but
Prop.

cf.
(n.

notes
on 13)

on
and

1,7,40
Tib.

for
(n.

possible
on 19)

indirect
superficially.

influence);
Ovid,

however, Tristia
gested there) Much absence below). tions; its by

2 (cf. intimately 1 (7,24,29,34,40,42,43).

these lists. Note can is,

(?bis),

4,7,14,?15,16,18,27,39,52 Influence is
on into 13

bis) to be wider
with

and than
refs.

notably sug

likely
exiguo serious

that also

(cf. lead

n. him

sermone trouble. in expression is very

A.'s of of The qualem author Yet the magna,

imitations the the poem banal

however, formulae will nullam note of

altogether the many gravestone examples ferunt

original ditty of (19)

and striking original

the (see formula but

commentary mortalem need text 11 not is blush. not

apparently is not great

habuisse

poetry,

free sermone,

from

infelicites: 14 lana recessit,

note

with 17

perplexity passim, 26 nosse,

or

reproof 27 in

tarn

exiguo

famis,
in cause in nom.),

32

(notably
47 tarn

puncta
sollemnia, censure

lacessunt),
48 of as the badly originality, (repetition). author's (cf.

36

(notably
Such talent Wistrand in its

awkward),
errors or 56, open do

41
not

(probably
furnish grander 90-1). of a poly

obj.
men

for greater The

blanket ages

competence; Horsfall, revelation

have is of

done notable

content

androus
scription (cf. n. Note Prima Marsala characteristic alerting The on

relationship
(cf. on a a 28-9) similarly little note are on

(cf.
17)

CLE 973
and in

and

note

on

28-9).

The
flavour poetry.

candid
of

physical
some details

de

unmistakable surviving in from

erotic epitaphic Greek Lilybaeum such grateful

unique minute

description curse NSc tablet 1941,297ff.); I am most

(c.2-1

B.C.) (A.Bombace

of

one in

Allia Lilibeo, is for

known cf. of defixiones.

1984,158ff.;

precision to Dr.

of Johan

course Flemberg

me poem

to

this

coincidence. of course numerous details familiar in other epitaphic

includes

poetry: virtues, and

notes reprehensa, author's

2 sedula

3 magna, 28 dum vixit,

6 quaeritur, of 35 dat
41 27 and auro infamis

8 list limited sine

of

virtues, tibi
But nil cf.

9 to

be

known

for

16 spinning,
on

17 obsequium,

acquaintance, fine,
51-2.

27 reputation (Du-Stil;
also 13 for

innocence;
28-9 17 faintly

versus
conlata,

cf.
in the variations

and mores

41

potest), salubres,

and

quia striving

admiserat after original

desperate

unsuccessful

upon

familiar

themes.

The

long

hours

kept

by Allia

(14-5)

and

her

hard

hands

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CIL VI

37965

= CLE

1988

(Epitaph

of

Allia

Potestas):

A Commentary

255

are

unconventional

and

arresting

items,

the

latter

(24),

like

39,42-3

and

cr?dite
Allius sonal and

(52)
has

of

Ovidian

origin.
conventional the combination epitaphic is details unique. with arresting per

interwoven candour;

sexual

Students
ashes in a of small Allia,

of

the
who,

Roman way
as the 3);

of
younger her

death

will
partner

find
should who

less

of
have found

interest
died no second mate

here:
(49) to

the
are

jar

(seri?la,

patronus,

has

succeed

her

(38), as of
death

retains a gift her fate;

(6,39).

Allia's (35) he
But

name and is her too

he

on name tired

(?) to

a ring live reply

an image

(40-1); in and
of

to

her (42).

he

offers cuncti her

practice

the ask is a

epitaph Allius
living

will

poetry his
her

life
(44ff.;

without
a

venerates

condemned
if poem damaging he can ends

in
make with the

the

philosophical
will and as its an

consolatio);
go with version Allia him

it

is
into of

honoured
his the tomb familiar numen

with
(46ff.).

flowers
The

and,

arrangements, unusual

obscure protector,

warning habet.

against

monument;

herself

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N.Horsfall

Translation To 1 Here the is Di Manes a of Allia of Potestas, Perugia, freedwoman than whom of there Aulus was no other treasured Female; (As) Cruel Why do out energetic. ruler you of plunder of many You, Fate score, so and what great harsh is good one a or two seem are contained in a little urn. more

buried

woman

woman,

Persiphone and why do evils flourish?

It
They She She

is

asked
offer

by
tears,

all;

I am
indications

(too)
of

tired
their

to

reply.
kindly a most and state loyal was of mind. guardian. (for this) at most large

was was

strong, very neat

pure, at

frugal, home, as

innocent, out of doors,

well-known 10 To She She To The No-one She never a unique was was return wool was degree, so because to when left her a high her in opinion slip affairs hands deference of that she she from could attracted her had without or herself, bed; been a in cope with little she set cause; salubriousness she never a She There Such 20 And What was was as on beautiful an they her ivory say snow-white her legs? no with gleam mortal breasts She had lovely in her had, the quite shape the of pose her of (?) nipples Atalanta on stage. She She That Nothing She had was kept she not her had satisfied no passion sparing, limbs hard but smooth hands her for you except making generous and will what the with hair perhaps she had her was lovely sought reprove herself she body. out her, done thought sufficient She She That 30 One After What Look I beg had while they home her, such what that a a no she became contained now these (bad) lived like them same wrought, once be wrought right to reputation, so managed the model and two now there grow cruel at use Troy. mighty comparisons in little because her of two Pylades was old one apart words she had young and spirit from tear. never lovers Orestes. between each done for she eyes, face was golden-haired, fancied free woman. of was in all gossip, likewise order. the tasks.

uncensured the to never before had first rest

last

there

morals. herself

was the

small. comic

about

everywhere.

herself. was unto herself. wrong.

acquaintances;

anything

them. other,

woman woman it may

matters.

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of

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Potestas):

A Commentary

257

These By way

verses of gift

your to

patron you who

weeping are lost,

without your

end patron

gives from have

you, whose never who heart been are you taken, lost,

Which To Who 40 In In whom

he

thinks no woman without he bears as as he much live place I

are has you your can as as hold in

welcome seemed and name retain my long an praise as may image manner it whom will

gifts good living

to after beholds

be

given you, his his

to

those

lives gold so far

own arm

end.

on everywhere it POTESTAS, may be of and keep I to have through you many me consign whom I to a

matched

with

gold.

However, You In shall your I when unhappy

power, my console garland and sacred entrust verses. myself is offered, follow. a duty? so much,

Which And But

revere I come I

holy you to shall

to am:

company so can

shall emerge

If however

someone

Happy
50 Woe to

as
me.

to

that
You

one
have

thing
outstripped

shall
me.

perhaps
My lot

be
has

though
become

I have
yours.

lost

you.

Who Believe DIS.MANIB Note of a a L.:

shall me,

have she,

dared famed

harm

this

tomb this

has

dared

also has

harm

the

gods.

through

inscription,

power.

ALLIAE the strongest (cf. of the n.

A.L.POTESTATIS single on common 28-9). Greek argument Potestas name against is Dynamis. this possibly text as the after commemoration Kroll 276)

marriage

(Gordon

translation

1 HIC PERVSINA. S ITA. EST

An original formulation; of the strong convenience emphasis on (metrical local and origin. structural) is sufficient

explanation

1-2
Cf. from nor femina, With CIL

QVA NON.PRETIOSIOR.VLLA
6.8553.1, (e.g. omitted ulla. cf. is presumably (closely) 23629.4 G.2.265, verb; for

FEMINA
this turn of improved be supplied phrase, neither and it possibly by is the best derived included to pause originally noun at

Virgil by the not pretiosior

A.6.104): erat should

Petron.70.1 therefore a

(Trimalchio vulgarism. SEDVLA

speaking):

this

personal

application 2-3 Urnus Vix neget

DEMVLTIS.VIX.VNA.AVT.ALTERA.VISA de is be tibi), hardly an a Ovidian una aut vulgarism reminiscence altera surely (Flobertap. (cf. is

Gordon): AA (cf. 1.344

cf. vix

LHS erit with

57, e

KS multis Luck's

2.1.426. quae note),

might una

Tr.1.3.16

sedula:
105). panded feebly

with
The in adj. 12ff.

visa
(and With de

(est);
sedulitas) the multis

tarn

should
occasional

perhaps
in here at least

be

supplied

(cf,
texts; (so too

Armini
a e.g. a theme

1927,
ex

epigraphie

punctuation ..visa

suggested does not

Gordon)the banal

expressed

represent

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qualification

of

qua

non

...femina.

SERI?LA.PARVA.TAM
A seri?la is a small

MAGNA.TENERIS
seria (Pers. 1969,277. magno see rest?t Borner's in Allia's hic Here tanta in flavour offers and the ossa tarn provides language (cf. grotesquely Armini of parva size tegit magna a 4.2 9) A only familiar here used theme. quid and Prop.2.9.13-4 ossa but saxsus serves better epitaphs 1927,106, unnecessary in manu. Prop, Kroll and gender a metrically to commonly 139.51 ff.). Ov. for ashes: Ov.Met. parvam W.Hilgers, 12.615-6 quod (Briseis) (278) supra facili con parva. and non

Rom. iam bene tanti Gordon and tates venient All enough Cf.

Gef?ssnamen, cinis compleat corpus took in CLE literal alternative the more carries Gil, 288-291, easily a est et

D?sseldorf de tarn

Achille/nescio note) sustulit here;

urnam Achilli Allius 415 magna to

(where maximaque imply hominis

altered as

interpretation. for since moral who

antithesis magnus TLL s.v.

corrections.

4 CRVDELIS.FATI.RECTOR.DVRAQVE.PERSIPHONE Crudelis
crudelis..rector possibly phone parallels reus rector, have (absent in been from TLL rector s.v.

is

often
is

applied
clearly influenced Roman

both

to

fate

and
The

to

the

deities

of

the

underworld:
might Tisi no Tarta s.v. Dis.

preferable. by epitaphs; but collected Allius'

orthography of rare).

Persiphone the fati phrases name rector: (e.g. Deorum

recollection is numerous

Persephone cf. in the

367.19ff, Averni)

Carter,

Epitheta

5 QVID.BONA Bona
rather used which 1927.107; an inscriptional to are

DIRIPITIS.EXUPERANT.QVE.MALA often combined

exsuperant it (cf. 'prevail' text; cf. is CLE the 382.2, Gordon). CIL 6.18079.8, mala

diripere
as

(TLL s.v.
(note that TLL The

diripio,
yet another survive, s.v. exsupero orthography TLL s.v.

1262,44ff,
change in contrast 1955,5f., (exu-) 1954,31,1955,9.

but
of

with
subject) to the after

bona
is bona Armini for

'property'); suggest no more that

hardly

is

uncommon

6 QVAERITUR.ACUNCTIS
The proximity of of 'it Armini, is asked' ?ranos acceptable ask Allius responder? epitaphic (so and poetry e.g., the frequent determines Gordon, Fridh, for questions the verb of lines ib. (cf. Kroll, 1976,139) CLE 4-5, occurrence the meaning H?usle); is 1411.11) and he is of of quaerere quaeritur in as (Gur though a here. of an the

dialogue-form simply litt, perfectly The cuncti

desideratur therefore, inappropriate wearied

1927,107, sense the

swering.
interaction sage; Concil. Esp. 276.8 even

The
of

debate
queror a

between
and sense (Ephesus,

Fridh
quaero of 'it 431 has is AD) used

(l.C)

and

Pulgram
no

(ib.

1979,158)
to justified and this

on
pas (cf.

the

therefore complained' ut as querebatur pass.) it

relevance be a is nobis unacceptable

though 1.4.130.16 (550 AD)

might

Inscr.Crist. here (cf.

for

queror

Flobert

378).

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259

IAM.RESPONDER?.FATIGOR The only example of fatigor + infin. quoted by TLL (see s.v. 345.46, 346.31)

is
(and sense

from

the

Moralia
1927,107)

(ca.

580-590
a

AD)
sense common, is not other

of
of

Gregory
'I but am in

the

Great

(15.52).
to in similar answer';

Gordon
this

Armini of the and

propose is of used is of course thus Gordon's

importuned the with context any

verb fatigor Preferable

unnecessarily construction by Gregory's

forceful elsewhere. use) 7 Lacrimas: phrase M. 2,341, 'I

attested explanation

(supported

am

tired

answering'.

DANT.LACHRIMAS.ANIMI.SIGNA.BENIGNA.SUI imprimis dant 1. TLL is in titulis and The antiquioribus, Ovidian cuncti of TLL (A.4.370, 1.6 all s.v. with weep as lacrima Pease's a token 836.28. note, of The Ov. their

Virgilian

840.23ff.).

kindly
lacrimas

spirit
animi

(by hypallage,
signa dedere

Rasi
sui.

697);
'Their

Allius
spirit'

has
is

Ov.Tr.1.8.28
clearly easier

in mind:
than

et

Jher
Latinity.

spirit*

(Mesk

64),

though

the

latter

would

also

be

tolerable

in Allius'

8 FORTIS.SANCTA.TENAX.INSONS.FIDISSIMA.CUSTOS
For robust' Tenax: Insons: see i.37-40. 9 MVNDA.DOMI.SAT.MVNDA.FORAS M. not just Sat = 'we11-scrubbed' 'very', Hofmann but 'tasteful'; Foras cf. = Nisbet-Hubbard foris, Hofmann on 338, Hor.Carm. Petr. other such (L?fstedt, 'sparing'; cf. T.E.V.Pearce, TLL s.v. ?ranos lists in Per.Aeth. cf. Quint. 1942.12ff. 77,1974,16ff., epitaphs, 161-2, 4.2.73 used cf. Armini Kroll patrimonii.. particularly E.Wistrand 280, 1927,109. as against tenax de on custos, infantibus. 'Laud.Tur.' Fortis: 'brave', Kroll Custos 'strong, Gordon. 280.

1.5.5. 30,3.

198,367.

NOTISSIMA.VOLGO Not
those for cabilis iudicio dat. 10 Sola should ceteros' not

in

conflict
things which

with
are ILCV

25-6.
listed 360

Rather,
in vita CLE 56.1

Allia
8-9. It

is
was

notissima
a good omnibus

precisely
thing to be

for

being
ami

well-known 1337 et

your

virtues: ab omnibus

innocentiaque bonis

cognitus, 1307.3

notus, (cf.

probata,603.3, perhaps suggering

proba volgo is

cunctorum advb.

Armini

1933,33f.)

that

SOLA.ERAT.VT.POSSET.FACTIS.OCCURRERE.CVNCTIS erat: be Armini taken (cf. for with this (1933,33f.) what use after precedes, of sola Kroll in the argued sense Sp?tlat. decisively of 'maxime Studien that omnium 84 and these praeter already, words

L?fstedt,

Shakleton
translations alone to to render

Bailey
of factis (e.g.)

on
H?usle

Prop.
amd

2.84.26).
Gordon) cunctis

Otherwise
the (i.e. sense she is had f.o.c.

(cf.

Armini
to

1927,110
be 'she that

and
was is cunctis:

the
able rather

required no maid);

occurrere talis erat

but occurrere

ut

sola

posset

Factis

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N.Horsfall

cf. with as

TLL is preces,

s.v. perfectly

occurro clear,

400.50. but or than factum translate Cato, in Agr. comparable that she was

A as

sense one

of might (e.g.

'to

meet', expect Plin.Pan. To comment (Gordon) it

i.e. is

to found 79.6, 'factis is the to

handle with

or nouns

cope such

exspectatio, rather (Kroll) or (cf. attested

desiderium or negotium. 'contingencies' 145): not texts the able result to do

Aus.Grat.Act. steht interpret to f?r nego factis the The consequent result second ut citing as of quite

374,531P) tiis' as

to

faciendis

easy, (L?fstedt, of all and

but

note

aversion 156ff.). (and the first the

gerundive force reputation) her virtues of

Per.Aeth. virtues duties;

the

ut was is

conveys that expressed Armini,

Allia's her

parenthetically 1933,33f. in 4.25f. have been the non a sense would of

paratactically, none be non nosy of this: socially' he 143.1!) occurrere with does

conventionally. concessive as a parallel Allia and

have 'to

taking and interprets she

occurrere Aus.Dom. could

occursator gossip (cf. this form and sense the

garrulus,

1 though sermone stand: alter

Cat.Agr. of

exiguo not really quite

inreprehensa in the Aus. issue. the

manebat.' frequentative

But

pairing

garrulus

11 EXIGVO.SERMONE.INREPREHENA.MANEBAT
Metrically ceps equivalent exiguo 3.1.31: tae Prop.'s sarily Gordon counted lepido, discussed sermo' exigui of his is essent. meaning that and a Allia Horsfall virtue nee Gilleland, excluded: refers as Stat,Silv. 18.2p.514 But and was would Perhaps she attracted multa et enim rather and sine sermone exiguo Yet and in 'Commodianic', hiatus ('volkst?mlich') is an apparent fores is no was not (cf. with Rasi, to the 720); erat Propertian nunc Ilion et an to words last syllable cf.18 Kroll, echo tu... evident 31otta (TLL se. s.v. nisi admirer For thereby seems be admired: cf. sense the 'of not the of sermone (permansit), 6,1914-5,363). exiguus carminibus of sense Propertius is censure have 52.7 been ac not 1472.36), celebra and neces (so treated 22,27; as an

manebat; (cf.

sermone Allius is

elsewhere guide of few

mandatory a 1982); indeed laetitia AJP cf. woman

Allius'. and

escaped to CLE linguistic reserved,

female good

taciturnity talk sermo might (though The

sermone taboos modest sermonis in the face and

1307.4 by not

101,1980,182). not to 3.3.107 (conversatio, such reluctance Allia better little quae recte vitandae have to sermo. so A.'s much modest dapes,

Aus.Grat.Act. rhetorical SHA Sept.Sev.

p.364.1P ability 19.7, ?taixav acknowledge censure that in servis cpmmittenda of need classical be suspected she the

(which task)

vestibus ??euTeXC?ouciv), one's own

Cassiod.Ios.Ant. TLL s.v.1477.222ff. memorable self-effacing? because Cic.QF sermonis on 20.24.26.40 and obscured 1.1.17

translating to escaped suppose Sermo

talents because

considered she was

precisely inreprehensa sense fidelibus non of

manebat cf. tarnen notes altered

'gossip': possunt sunt. Cf. with with 9

committi causa examples

vituperationis for other

possible No

echoes

meaning.

incompatibility

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261

notissima because style

volgo: there could was have

Allia's little provoked Cf.

virtues sermo quite CIL 118. Ov.Tr. An cf. Ov.Am.

were about the 6.24294 Hiltbrunner 5.14.22 Ovidian 3.1.51,

widely her, contrary. cum qua

known though we

and shall

she

was see

uncensured that her life

inreprehensa reprehensione, less 12 helpfully

manebat: Galletier compares

vixit s.v.

annis

xxxv

sine

ulla 406.47ff.)

(TLL sine polarity Apul.Met.

irreprehensus mansit. (M.14.682). 5.20.4. This

crimine

PRIMA...EADEM.VLTIMA.

TORO.DELAPSA.FVIT:

form

of

the

perfect
vulgarisms.

is

especially

common

in

Commodian

(LHS 322).

In Flobert's

list

of

12-3 The
561.15). V??n?nen of

EADEM.VLTIMA.LECTO construction
Quietem 46). is

SE TVLIT ADQVIETEM se fero is

as therefore commended in the

double

with
regularly

without
quetem (cf.

obvious
(Diels Leumann inscriptions,

parallel
Vulg.Inschriften 130). but

(TLL s.v.
161, Long cf. hours Colum.

written prosody

Unremarkable are not regularly wife. REBVS

housework on the

12.1.2

bailiff's ORDINE

POSITIS.EX

possibly

echoing

Ov.M.

12.211.

14 LANA.CVI.E
Recessit quam defuit) at line-end

MANIBVS NVNCQVAM.SINE CAVSSA RECESSIT

Ovidian an (M. 1.61 etc.) but development the sense beyond = ( manibus classical num

represents

(unattractive)

usage:
The

cf.
reference

CLE 1371.9
to spinning

(521 AD)
is of

numquam
course

de manibus
an unaltering

tibi

lex

divina
in

recessit.
the

commonplace

genre.
n. on

Cui
38.

disyllabic
nuncquam primae 421, with Cf. seape

with

the

second
1.204. ab homine

syllable
sine causa saeculi Paulinus

elided;
'Denique v vel of

cf.

Leumann
dignum

478,

and

Sommer corripi

memoria vif (ps.Cypr.), Mar.Viet,

ablativos L.M?ller, (cf. p.253).

potius Pella and

further

examples

from

15 OPSEQVIOQVE.PRIOR.NVLLA.MORESQVE
The before 263, is virtue, 92; cf. ional the CLE balance her Rasi lengthened bound locution 737.7 achieved in 698) obs. but in up arsi with prior moresque for and 'none (cf. the nulla benigni, salubris or through her was the mores before p.253). principles appears 1329.3 derivatives repeated were her

SALVBRES
-que s.' in., (so might Gordon and is manu original. facundi. used thus. as an suggest cf. to..'. extremely cf. the No Pascal The a not AR of 'none 1914, nulla was

Obsequium of to cum be

old-fashioned BICS line-end Roman inscript 30,1983,

marriage; With

moresque

parallels

16 HAEC SIBI
Cf. placui: laender developed frei war, (Armini, this on Juv. ('theme suchte ?ranos is

. NON.PLACVIT.
1934,35f.) much Petr. variation') doch nicht the

NUMQUAM.SIBI.LIBERA.VISA
Aus.Dom. popular 46.5. Allia's by die numquam Rolle der 4.14 idiom: ipse Heraeus freedom sibi Freien from libera zu mihi numquam Kl.Schr. iudice 111, Fried is 'Obwohl spielen und sie dazu me

very 6.276, and sie

self-satisfaction visa.

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stimmt 17 Such
comparable explicit 'L'intimit? sion and ou lack

ganz,

was

?ber physical
101, of

ihre

T?tigkeit description

im Hause is
to a

erz?hlt unusual
or statue.

wird' (Galletier
The was du 105;

(Kroll

277). 104f.);

detailed
(H?usle character de de of

very
bust that

Brelich the detail d?tails que de

72)

intimate the plus de

and author. pas

suggests prouve discr?tion' chez

Allius l'auteur

himself po?me 'matchless

certains

sensualit? tact'

Galletier

garrulity

Lattimore

2 99.

17 CANDIDA.LVMINIBUS.PVLCHRIS.AVRATA.CAPILLIS
Cf. bus Armini likewise 1927,111. balances refers of nitor..eburneus, the abl. of Allius uses cingula. auratus cf. with general to The balance of i.e., eyes candida that and Allia's should 4.6 is means for aureus; help candidus scarcely auricoma. for the is and candida not aurata (in (whether is the corpore). Aurata on cf. Ov.M. Virg. suggests the as weakened 'blonde' covered force of Pulchris, capillis 5.189 A.6.137, shows 9.359 in that lumini sense, or the as next

capillis, Allia's application; which SHA capillis clearly Alb.

'beautiful1), 'beautiful') line here with by (for luminibus

colouring determine toto necessary. Borner abl.

candida whether is that

infelicitous. Ov. aurea already bullis

18 ET NITOR.IN
The For application permansit 122, cf. 'sehr of

FACIE.
eburneus on 11 selten'

PERMANSIT.
to manebat. NW bodily On 2.427

EBURNEUS.ILLAE
features the Vulgar but cf. is dative istae almost illae and ipsae exclusively cf. Leumann in Plaut. Ovidian. 480, and

V??n?nen

Apul.;

contrast

illi

(20).

19 QVALEM MORTALEM.NVLLAM.HABVISSE.FERVNT
A pentameter with archaic un-Ovidian flavour and elision appears in the (cf. second TLL s.v. half; mortalis the phrasing 1511.45) has a

positively original. 20 P.n.: 'nipple'; synecdoche.

PECTORE perhaps p. is

ET.IN.NIVEO.BREVIS.ILLI.FORMA.PAPILLAE an (? unconscious) of (notably echo pupula; TLL of cf. Tibullus WH, EM s.v. (1.4.12). or (Hodges), (ii) Papilla: 'breast' who is (i) by aware

diminutive

Dictionaries

x.1.254.28ff.

(I.e.),
editors las Juv. crescentes manus, 64.65, Maximian Serious with pectus pectore 6.122

of
are

the
much

distinction
confused. with

(51f.)
For Non. note. papillas 1.5.20,4.37 'nipples' papillae arise at for 1.5.20-1.

but
'nipple' 391,25 For /

declines
cf. stare (ii) ut cf. sit (e.g.) erigi

to

follow
Lucil. prominere,

it
859

through)
stare Cat. 4.13.4

and
papil 55.12, fascia,

marm?reo with dominae

Courtney's compesce Am.

(e.g.) quod

Mart. capiat

nostra 86.5 and clauderet even the (echoing

tegatque Cat.

Ov. where,

RA

337-8, however, duraeque

(probably), would / et be quas Ov.Am. 'nipple Nor is breast' Ovid's quite

Petr. possible),

probably una manus.

5.27-8 uncertainty is

astringens 2.15.11; cf. meaning

can not cf. decisive; Ov.Am.

(e.g.)

combination for

Lucil. there

supra, (forma

'breast-front'

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Potestas):

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263

papillarum

quam

fuit

apta

premi,

cf.

3.3.7)

necessarily

guide

to

Allius'

here
Allia ambiguous. the

(cf.
had

n.
never

on

11 ad
suckled forma its

fin.);
children, is effect

Allius'
his

choice
pair of

of

adjective
nouns remains

might

imply

that

intractably imported within

Ovid's

immediately is only to

comprehensible; blur and weaken.

here,

reminiscence,

21 QVID CRURA ATALANTES.STATVS.ILLI.COMICVS.IPSE

Quid Simply Atalanta parison)? misses upon (after den The nexion is not CE, adjective with an the attested the Ov. 116) the crura? 'what upon Her point. imagination AA 3.407; for an 'Als about the Uebergangsformel her comic legs?'. stage'. very Virg. and see analogous should stage theme of is the A. memory E.Liss:berger, comparison not be constant Roman comic strained (cf. 'She abzusondern* had 'continues what belongs scaenis myth envisioned Das with to CLE stage, Fortleben an artistic suggest 236.3, though of (Kroll Allius' Atalanta's to agitatus as the comic Orestes drama der r?m. and 282, cf. the legs stage' for CE Elegiker the Hofmann very (in stance com quite impact 191 f.). of

Gordon's posture 4.471 of

(Atalanta's) Cf.

2057.1 in

representation. 'absurd'; 544 one A 13). would the con

comicus comic

Atalanta strongly

expect tragedy
or cf. dam period 1965,14ff., Der used athletic 300

her and
AD

to

be

(I have at
mimic RLM

discussed 74,1979,331).
representation

the

evidence date
seriously and

of of

middle this
to be M?sica at

comedy, poem

Roman 200
(though (Amster every ed.2, H.Reich,

Ovid
a

CJ

By the
is 4.255-7 in explicit

whether

only

imagined Romana this Mimi 1753.13ff., and Romani

Friedlaender, 1967,183). (Tert.Spect. The

(Eng.tr.), revelled with 2.90ff.,

G.Wille, sexuality

mime 17.2

Castorina's E.W?st On her Ov.Am. the conquest

note, PW s.v.

Bonaria, Mimus stage by AA Milanion, 3.775;

Friedlaender 1, legs physique Berlin for 1903, running; are

Mimus her

242ff.). after

mimic

Atalanta other cf. too

will uses

not for

have her

attested:

3.2.29,

Suet.Tib.

44,
297, legs, likewise This

Pascal
Desmed but it

AR
584. is

1914,264,
Not not at their (Galletier the genesis of Metrik MGH corripiuntur, u of of the only,

Lenchantin,
therefore, that in 301, status error: u. 17ff., p.443 Cf. Birt (Vollmer), Ausonius recollection the cf. and faulty

Riv.Fil.
did Allius bedroom. Lenchantin the a of Allia, is

1913,391-2,
like hinting

Kroll
Atalanta, that Allia's

282,
have

Gurlitt
lovely were

impossible best

seen line is

not

Boll.Fil.Cl. crura in the (in hiatus) unfamiliar Latina Commodian Hertel, s.v. Atalantes

1913-4,113) lengthened. proper 56/ Leumann 2.315, s.v. longae.

heptameter A far simpler

with

prosody

name

forces 115f., 3.736, producuntur, Probably

shortening Vollmer, Merobaudes

J.P.Postgate, ed. Claudian, Ennodius ed. of Schenkl, Ov. AA

Prosodia ccxi, ed. index 3.775

index breves, crura.

an

ill-starred

22 ANXIA NON MANSIT SED CORPORE PVLCHRA BENIGNO 23 LEVIA MEMBRA TVLIT.PILVS.ILLI.QVAESITUS.VBIQVE
Mansit again for fuit: anxia is (with enallage) contrasted with benigno

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(Lenchantin with would Benignus potius jectives vincingly cannot hands features. need treatment chantin, (Mesk, The two not be (24) pulchra, therefore by quam in

Boll.Fil.Cl. Gurlitt, here contrast, frugi an bonae. exclusively ?ranos into his (pace any those a concern Desmed) excessive attested. 1913,392), 1915,62) are best represent he is

1913-4,110, 297). natural 'generous' The context physical 1924,152f., sense to of A sense (Klotz,

Armini of

1927,112, 'cautious1

Kroll 'careful' 203.1 Plaut.Truc. us as to exilis (see Iff.,

282; verging Kroll, 41, take

surely on 282). est the see

not 'mean'

TLL OLD does sense; Desmed s.v. not

s.v. 1b,

benignus ad uncon 190 3.26ff.) Allia's

compel anxia benignus The

for 584;

Armini forced show Nor imply of Riv.Fil. BPhW lines

TLL

'well-built'. portray an of links erotic partners, of (Gandiglio,

poet's character be

remarks and her

about physical

between sense

should number

excluded: her as

generosity

merely anxia AR

accomodating 'worrying' (Len 'finicky'

Interpretations 'fanciful' unnecessary separately,

1913,329f.),

complications. for enjambement impairs the

construed

balance
observes, (sexual) and Ov.AA suggests where you

of

both
the

(cf.
thought who locc.citt.).

Mesk
runs was

62,
on, most

Armini
for likely it

112,
is to a

Gurlitt
woman her is more

298).
most body often

But
generous hair

as

Kroll
with her also but

(283)

favours

pluck

(cf. attested,

Gurlitt cf.

Lenchantin 3.194, that would Plin.

Male 26.164, no looked Mart. reference in vain

depilation

NH is

3.74.1,6.93.9,10.90.1,12.32.22. to for depilation; hair', but rather, the a proximity sense of

Armini of 'every quaesitus

there have

probably
'ethic' fluence Galletier or of

indicates
'of

that
advantage'. verse W.Beare,

illi
The

is

simply
scansion Rasi, Verse

a dative
?ll? passim, and

of
qua?situs

agent

rather
shows Riv.Fil. London the

than
clear

(?)
in

accentual 298f.,

(cf. Latin

Lenchantin European Song,

1913,398, 1957,183ff.).

24 QVOD MANIBVS DVRIS FVERIT

Possibly value adsiduo sex Cf. The bere deponent, of of ap. To classical literary Gordon); take culpabere Boll.Fil.Cl. changes Gordon); cf. of a contrast hands pollice with are her curiously nebat 6.290; on is There as the models, reminiscence) many parallels as, poet cf. Ov.Her. an 9.79 Ovidian the verb (cf. on in of opus. V.M.7.5.2.

CVLPABERE.FORSAN
skin rare: Laus elsewhere. Ov.MF Pis. Ov.Ars 17 2.568 14 (the (from and References old pounding F.3.782 Sabine to the matrona) barley; refer to no men. symbolic

smooth

hard durum

specified)/luv. Palmer line-end forsan.

(Hercules). echo is 33) 13). this this (Tr. clearly addresses The text type change is 1.1.35) passive; the of ut peragas here reader voice it (for (under mandata is best such the liber taken alterations influence (Flobert 217ff.). as is is Priap. hardly 3.3, passive to intro 'vulgar' LHS 334-5, culpa as

grammatically exist (Flobert, to Allia,

unsurprising Deponents, and

parenthetically, 1913-4,110 of subject. Lucr. 5.105, and

addressed Riv.Fil. +

(Lenchantin duce (Flobert TLL s.v. intolerable ap.

1913,389,391) fut.indie, 2.15.54,

Forsan Prop.

1139.28ff.

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(Epitaph

of

Allia

Potestas):

A Commentary

265

25 NIL The with

supra). solum herself per

ILLI of

PLACIT NISI hard line

vulgarism 3.684, E.Dahl?n,

QVOD PERSE FECERATIPSA (cf. 12f.), though (cf.

Gordon) LHS

cause herself.

her The
a sapit,

hands is

she Rasi
; cf. 94, ...

was 723,
rather and

never Galletier
Lucr. for the

(16)

pleased 296, p.253

sibi ('for

an heptameter
(Flobert Hor.Ep. Etudes ap. 1.17.1, syntaxiques

Hardly se alone'),

,3.1 sense 1964,192.

45

Gothenburg

26 NOSSE.FVIT.NVLLVM.STVDIVM
The quite sexual verb, clear. sense used absolutely, Nosse (so is hardly is

SIBI
without in an Adams

SE SATIS.ESSE.PUTABAT
obvious intellectual 190). Allia parallel ('to has and have an the sense is or reputation; not

knowledge') excellent

transitively,

nothing
herself half Armini's domiseda volgei get putabat of

(27)
and the

was
therefore line;

held

against
(once

her.
again, did at 283f. 299,

In her
the not 10, who Colum. right of but the

own view
explains out to

she

was
himself

sufficient
in the

unto
second (cf. is, CLE a 959,2 'to esse

author go

cf.

on

22,27)

acquire 189). Cato She Agr. Gordon's

acquaintance was, 143.1, that

rejected CLE nescia. acquainted' appears 237.2. See

interpretation Cf. too Kroll Gurlitt therefore a formulation

Dahlen, compares 11.1.13.

translation, Sibi se satis

appears to be

unparalleled. author's own.

27 MANSIT.ET.INFAMIS.QVIA.NIL.ADMISERAT.VMQUAM As
to Fil.

against
those she 1913,393),

sine
did

honore
not admit

(Pascal
to

267,
her

with
favours'

Kroll

284)

or

Lenchantin's
191, as sine 3-4,11 mala

'infamis
Of., fama Riv. is

(Boll.Fil.Cl. of infamis

Lommatzsch's

interpretation

clearly
97, posed to

right

(ad CLE 1988 with

?ranos 1923,114, meaning of the

addit.
Armini, word

p.160;
ib.

cf.

Stampini

Riv.Fil.
is squarely

46,1918,
op

Liljeholm, the

1927/113).This Infamia

usual

(Greenidge,

(repr.

Aalen

1977)
963.12, pudore

4 n.1)/
sine nemo

but
infamia, dicere

cf.

(after
Apul.Apol. (i.e.

Armini)
69

ILS
sine

8471
fabula,

sine
CIL

ulla

turpi
11.6204.9f. 283)

fama,
de potuit

CIL
cuius (cf.

14.

maledicere,

L?fstedt,

Per.Aeth.

on

11 inreprehensa in the second

the other

manebat). half
force than of her nil:

Characteristically line: quia

and his usefully Allius' Ex

(cf. admiserat
droll iuvenis compares expression P.4.14.23; cf.

22,26),

Allius be
Allia

clarifies allowed
admitting evident

of
of

the

nil

umquam must
picture amans the is of entails

to

determine lovers

infamis. patron Armini Better,

Lenchantin's fellow

misunderstanding 552.1 nihil 46. e.g. admisi, sine

common actually TLL s.v.

formula Ovidian, admittere

(CLE sed 753.

crimine. nulla est

mea

culpa,

28 HAECDVO.DVM.VIXIT.IVVENES.ITA 29 EXEMPLO.VT FIERENT

dum 1.33.14 27, ExP vixit: CIL Pylades 3.2.69, 6 six and RA times, Orestes: 589). Prof.

REXIT.AMANTES

SIMILES.PYLADISQVE.ET.ORESTAE
dum vixi an four. exemplum E.Pianezzola Rexit known cf. Hor.Carm. (Kroll 285) 3.9.9, from Ov. to NH on (Tr. me a ib. 1.9.

ingeniously

suggests

quite

different

line

of

interpretation,

based

on Ov.

AA

1.745

(the

innocent

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relations sage nor is

of

Pylades Allius so

and

Hermione). an

But author

Orestes as to

is assume

not

mentioned the relevance

in

that of an

pas

devious

unnamed
than and 'to abl.

mythological
of means is taking with not Pyladis

figure;
rexit easily and

Exemplo
for Allia's

is

probably
relevance Possibly

dat.
as too on an 'for

(with
example an

similis)
to example' Allius'

rather
'Pylades' (sc. use

'Orestes' all')

perceived. Orestae as

dependent

similes.

of

mythological
1233.3ff.,

examples
17ff.,

is

copious
1276.2).

but
From

not
a

exceptional
sense of moral

for

CLE

(cf.

884,
early

1165.12,

outrage,

editors
called

of
them

this
the

text
amantes

imposed
(so

a marriage
e.g. Brugi

bond
1912-3,

upon

Allius

and Allia
1912); this

and
notion

Mancini

was

dismissed

finally
Boll.Fil.Cl. Scritti stated to further concubine word in first Gordon). an the be

and with
1913-4,112, Giuridici, that of

splendid

vigour

by

Pascal
ib. 233f., The (cf. Allia 1981,213).

(267-70);
Stampini relationship note was on

cf.
1918, is 35); not

Lenchantin 95, G.Castelli,

P.Fossataro, Milano, freedwoman of Libertus, that the I.e., well fraternal need 1927,114f., not observes affection carry Kroll, 1923,110-8. and

explicitly one her is of Allius Pylades Though Epigraphica 35ff., fectly to and ference if ILS of amantes 8474a, the The Allius Allius the phrase tation on Ancient observe voluptuous, to ILS normal in word patron's not Allius one

patron

(cf.

Armini (cf. text marriage Pascal not

1927,114f.) G.Fabre, to suggest (Lenchantin, further of

marriage. Rome amantes Kroll,

therefore Again, there whether of Allia by and

were 285) (268) but that of

sons, or

by (Kroll, furnish

Orestes friendship. (Martelli, amo is 1958. per relevant the erotic The Even citing

exemplum texts

epigraphie 44,1982,208, 8474a and that duo

amantes Armini

sexual 284, TLL that It is

sense s.v. sense clearly of Pascal). of amantes.

fratres

gemelli (Martelli,

obierunt I.e., there CLE runs eulogies a chaste a

amantes), 973.7). strong (so interpretation

common through alongside

this

text traditional

current already

re

Helen be 8463, taken

hardly as cf.

supports inter se

amantes I.e.), the lovers, only 2 99,

(Armini duo not that of

after iuvenes the sons

Liljeholm, must, of Allia Galletier in Allia. lived 167-8) did most a 1969, 584-5, 1983, LCM chaste E.Haight, B.Rawson Coniunx 6.10,1981,26 exist: the

Martelli be remains (Gurlitt we CLE homine cf. should 973 =

context

preceding question and and one two.

argument, therefore lover For cited,

the

whether I.e.,

with or of with all the

Fossataro clear 6.21200 makes Durry 1966),78, Diss. and to that

be CIL

such remains

m?nages the

parallels (8) of 7 cum duo

convincing; interpre Essays TAPA carissima 9-72 matrimonia are quite cor

suave amantes;

Spurio further

most 1961

unlikely and

Fiction B. The objections of are the the von

(repr.

Freeport

Desmed Stuttgart S.Dorken, refer to and in

104,1974,287, 183-5. to several

Hesberg-Tonn, of S.Treggiari which but the are, 'extra-legal'. appears amantes as

texts noted,

simultaneous CLE in 97 3

contubernia matter; respondence

here

another

relationships observes,

Prof.

Treggiari,

illuminating

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(Epitaph

of

Allia

Potestas):

A Commentary

267

It relationship the

now

has of number

perhaps Allius of

become to Allia's between nevertheless the

little Orestes-Pylades

easier

to pair

examine and intense (22ff., exactly

without to attempt physical 35ff.) upon this

dismay to and nor the question.

the calculate

exact

partners: Allius employed

neither and Allia bear

the

emotional liberta

relationship terminology

patronus

The
such (cf. Pascal

exemplum
a n. way on 269). and should The as 33)

of
to

Helen
refer therefore

(33)
only be

is
to

likewise
the

irrelevant,
situation e to contrario reconstruct re-cast as after

for
Allia's (aliter, a Paris in bear sine should

it

is

introduced
and Gurlitt scenario must

in

death e.g.

employed

299, with and each con either: 42 first first

It

is 'Pylades'

quite

impossible and/or be (pace Allius interpreted Gordon versus nostra 45 are likewise against

coherent and its this patronus

'Orestes' exemplum text. comparison quantumcumque person persons

Menelaus own limited argument

therefore used 35 hos tibi praeconia 44 likewise and

exclusively 148) do not

persons of

upon fine suggest

dat

lachrimans valebunt authorial; any

with the with

tarnen in

that

plurals singular

interweaving to a genuine

tells

reference

multi

plicity
concord

of
of

mourners
'Pylades'

(cf.
and

further
'Orestes'

on
in

35).
Allia's

Eos

and

illis

(39)
they

refer
are

to
now

the
diversi;

lifetime;

38 and to

47 make

it

clear with
Allia's 30 that

that either

Allius

found

no or

successor 'Orestes',
strangely 'Orestes',

to

Allia. the

If

we decline

identify
una

Allius
during

'Pylades'
lifetime 'Pylades' become

then
perplexing. and Allius it

domestic
Indubitably is clearly Allia's far

arrangements the easier domus to

of

contained it was

and same house

suppose

in

the

that

admired

domestic
from the native The clearly ding that is that Allius scarcely 30

virtues,
'Pylades' and with m?nages

celebrated
'Orestes', them, in we Allia's of sense is Allia's odd paralleled, ex-owner, than to were

in

8ff.

Again,
the text

if

Allius
not the

is
state

to

be
that

distinguished
he shared alter

since would be lifel Allius he

does to

una of

domus two

driven

clearly

ludicrous

intense makes

involvement better

in one of

the

fortunes them and it

of is

the

two

young worth

men ad Given amans

perhaps is one

dyandry is less

whereas though, share her with

triandry to share two!

apparently her with

not. other

VNA.DOMVS

CAPIEBAT.EOS.VNVSQVE.ET.SPIRITVS.ILLIS.

No need
touching

to
and

suppose
forceful

(Rasi,
phrasing

724) mind

multiple
is apparently

synizeses;

simply

heptametric.
4.143 may

The
pos

original.Ov.Her.

sibly

have

been

in Allias'

(cf.
+

P.Cugusi,

Epigraphica

44,1982,96).

31 POST.HANCNVNC.IDEM.DIVERSI.SIBI
A single of: longum cf. Sibi too CIL quisque For this many. 6.7788,34115, senescunt: expansion Post personal etc.

QVISQVE.SENESCVNT
pronoun Diversi: cf. on cf. the in the sense 18.167 of the 1252, of 'after (Hero participants TLL s.v. the and

death Leander). is

Ov.Her. ages Plaut.Rud.

speculation of diversi

unprofitable.

1576.2ff.

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32 FEMINA.QVOD.STRVXIT.TALIS.NVNC.PVNCTA.LACESSVNT
Some gambling is 168 16 have easily n.1, and early interpreters (talis) understood Damst?, Castelli used the Mnem. (who technical speculations. temporis; sense strained suggests house in the which verb, the without and does also of wrought without 43,1915,384, not language Gurlitt moments specific disagreeable. that a not struxit..lacessunt built noun: (cf. interrogatiunculis 7.15.4 s.v. lacesso si(animus) 832.56ff. ad now puncta Desmed's quasi voluptatum fort.i.q.verba the in or realise of the (299-300, march of the passage its recourse on toll to (e.g. in Allia's wanton see Allius jurists) revived time. of (BPhW Pascal 267 menage. ingenuity; Rasi would 115, by Though time for Boll.Fil.Cl. never other n.2) The cf. suggested line, Galletier 23,1917, conceivably bizarre took of the Gurlitt an down'). of 'pricks' cf. proposuit, punctiunculas pungentia. TLL image The or puncta punctum phrase 300) from and that however,

which that

unnecessary as in seems more building problem 'stings' Cic.Parad.2 effecit, concutitur, lies seems puncta a temporal notably attractively ('the

Gordon) examples do occur, cf.

indication Mesk

1915,63, may contain wear sense

woman the

picks the

unexceptionable Cato-minutis

'paroles punctis,

blessantes'); quod

Sen.Dial. TLL

dolorumque sim.

while
(supra)

still
the

inexplicably
passage much Paris 9.42.3.3 verberibus 5.1 (if s.v. better ext. the

supposing
irritare, to 2 suppose convicio text is

that

quod
a sense

refers
This of

to
does lacerare (where

par
not

filiorum
make (rare for but has

cites
easy possible): laceratus),

provocare.

comprehension; cf. Cod.lust. lacessita Iulius

lacessitus sound) vexata, si TLL

Val.Max.

ingenuorum..corpora s.v. 833.47ff.

fuerint

tormentisque

33 ASPICITE
Ad Troiam: cf. Helen text e such

AD TROIAM.QVID.FEMINA.FECERIT.OLIM
'vulgar' 2.12.21. Allia this is So resisted (Flobert, long as (the ap. any Gordon), temptation repetition do puncta Helen not of LHS to 219, draw femina arise: destroy; was KS 2.1.520.

probably Ov.Am. and as

Femina: between in a

parallels from Helen compare is 32 in the Allia is not

significant), what Allia in striking, wrought contrast not

problems now to Allia.

troduced destruction cement. 34

contrario: Helen

wrought, is

solvent,

The

contrast

successful.

SIT.PRECOR.HOC.IVSTVM.EXEMPLIS.INPARVO.GRANDIBVS.VTI.

Ugly
desire in

heptameter
to parvo use grandibus as

(iustum
much uti as

elided
possible (Tr.

at

21/2).
of the where

The

author

is

led

astray
si licet

by his
exemplis

convenient cf. Luck's

Ovidian interesting

1.3.25,

remarks).

35 HOS TIBI.DAT
For the idea of

VERSVS.LACHRIMANS.SINE
the poem as a gift to

FINE.PATRONVS
the deceased, cf. CLE 463,4,525.10,

1301.5
again, that. the

et
no A.Allius

saep.
word

With
of was original a

patronus
marital

cf.

A(uli)1(libertae)
It the style, cannot intimacy seems

in

the

heading;
be details, to exclude

note

relationship. the author:

seriously of quite some

disputed like the

himself and

awkwardly

independent

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(Epitaph

of

Allia

Potestas):

A Commentary

269

intermediacy are referred (p.255) to

of not in

professional in 3rd. evidence.

epitaph-writer, Tibi: thereafter in

whose 11.1-34

conventional Allia in is the

expressions consistently second. This

widely the

person,

consistently

change
L.Koenen,

from

Er-Stil

to

Du-Stil

is
With

well-attested
this variation,

(BICS
cf.

30,1983,89
that in the

with
way

n.49,
in

ZPE

5,1970,249ff.).

which
uses

Allius
3rd.

refers
person down

to
to

himself:
41 potest,

apart
and

from

the

authorial
first

precor
(sing./pi.).

(34),

he
Sine

thereafter

fine:
Ov.Her.

cf.

CIL
3.15.

6.8401

(s.f.dolor),

10244

(s.f.gemunt),

26680

(lugunt

s.f.),

36 MVNERIS AMISSAE.CVI
No of pause a gift' to be made after

NVNCQVAM.ES PECTORE ADEMPTA

patronus, for the gen. So munus and ut muneris Kroll indicates (286); Cic.Or. 394 ossa cf. ed. LHS 'by 72, way

('service' Synt. 12,128

Gordon, n.1, 1894), CLE 1168.6

perplexingly). TLL s.v. lxxix, sumeret

L?fstedt, II.1 tibi (ed. sescenti

1667.41ff., e.g. tellus Plaut.Persa muneris

Teubn. dotis

CF.W.M?ller, logi,

dabuntur mei. Amissae:

sc.
previous you

tibi

(so Lommatzsch:
line never and es are

tibi
decisive taken

amissae
('to (Gordon);

dat
one

hos
lost*

versus

muneris):
'From whose heart

tibi
whose you

in

the
breast have

Gordon!). 'from

were

(before)

perhaps

never
strong, 683.26ff.,

been

taken

(sc,
to 170.2.

though
death,

physically
more than

you
to

now have

been)'.
elsewhere:

Adempta:
TLL s.v.

appropriate CLE

engagements

37 QVAE PUTAT.AMISSIS.MVNERA
Pentameter. Putat: closer cf. CIL 38 Pentameter; misleading. stance 66-75, as sc. mu?era 6.30106.5 An Allius. grata ugly and Quae: and mu?era infelicitous formally perhaps digna

GRATA.DARI
re-use refers also dare. back influenced of to the previous versus, by muneris. but line's attracted For the phrasing. by phrasing, the

NVLLA.CVI.POST.TE.FEMINA.VISA.PROBA.EST for On expressed BICS the the iambic rejection here, cf. scansion of second of cui, marriages, Le remariage cf. Leumann comparable ? Rome, 418; NW. to 2.454 Allius' 1972, is

M.Humbert,

Milan

Horsfall,

30,1983,93.

39 QVI.SINE
Qui., phrasing common viri, cf. Ov.Am. and vivus Ex P. the

TE VIVIT
3.11.39, absence is ilium manes

CERNIT SVA FVNERA VIVOS

Her. of again ego tellure 3.140; the epigraphie cf. Tr. second half parallels 5.12.16 mea adhuc vivi fu?era vates, is equally (though fu?era vidi, 13.518 Ovidian note flere M.9.416f. fu?era cernam. the in

obvious striking: non aliter

fecit) 1.9.17 suos

flentem

subductaque

videbit/vivus

40 AVRO. TWM. NOMEN. FERT. ILLE REFERTQVE LACERTO

For the shortening from Sen., of auro, cf. from L.M?ller, CLE 543.4 417, (c. Vollmer, 2 AD), Metrik angelo, 20: regno vincendo, 'erst

iungendo

Saturno

sp?te

Christen'

(Vollmer),
cf. Pease on Virg.A. 4.438. Lacerto should indicate that

fert..refertque:

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Allius Barini, lections with gold der perhaps

carried Ornatus of portrait) finger-ring Rheinlande changing

Allia's Muliebris, inscribed in digito inscribed 1, Berlin the

name

on Torino

an

armband 1958,65ff.; domesticum). fersque

of

gold

(cf.

H.Carm. absent

1.9.23, from 1.7.6 perhaps col

apparently But tuo. (F.Henkel, varies (cf. the Kroll cf.

instrumentum qui me with

Or.Tr. So Die here r?m. Ovidian 286).

(a a

gem

refersque name Allius he intended

Allia's

Fingerringe line,

1913,322/325). sense more than

41 QVA RETI?ERE.POTEST.AVRO.CONLATA.POTESTAS
It play) Allius be the (two the form words is still who is Allius, the not subject the Potestas of potest facts and must drawn have into that immortalises stood the on the (Pascal (so 271 Kroll, (40) that ring) by notes 287; is the aliter, accusative (exclamatorily POTESTAS, the case of auro the potest..Potestas e.g. and Rasi must and conlata name). 711); also in

simply object in

ignores of which inevitably reti?ere it

nomen

nomen as

nominative

Gordon and
that

unconvincingly change)
was

supplies

te

as

the (?ranos who

object

of

reti?ere most

(a difficult improbably
alternatively

unsignalled
reti?ere

and Armini
(without

1933,35

proposed in
Kroll's

intransitive

adequate

parallel);

(?ranos
scribed explanation c. is

1927,119)
on Allius' of possibly cf. 'mit a

that
ring faulty

it

was
(violent

Allia
and

retained

her
changes preferable, 300: 174.55). Allia's

name
of

by

its
subject).

being

unnecessary is vastly (Gurlitt, confero carried (cf. used 213. is quanto' (Armini, pretiosior thus, Qua:

construction to 2.6.3, congregare TLL s.v. Allius with For cf. i.e. on 1915,63), mihi fuit gold confero Leumann the

auro 'vermischt, More name 1, simply, in

conlata: ver Kroll gold, 640, 178.8ff., wo er ihn rather cf. CLE Allia

equivalent Vitr. Gold

schmolzen; (287): who Prop. CIL was

verglichen*. comparable

herself 4.7.84,

Plaut.Ba. s.v. 'dort

CLE

1298.2).

cf. Kroll's

TLL

6.35769.5. kann' wie'

Orthography: (287; (Mesk amavi, BPhW qua

festhalten 'so 62.1 weit

finger) 'in parens

perhaps (Pascal,

too 270

limiting; n.2); 1927,119).

parentem

?ranos

42 QVANTVMCVMQVETAMEN.PRAECONIA.NOSTRA.VALEBVNT
The Ovidian into a theme is (Ov.Tr. change of commonplace 1.6.35, person (Lattimore where (cf. on see 42-3, Luck's 2 9). H?usle note). 64f.) The and reminiscence the phrasing leads Allius

43 VERSICVLIS.VIVES.QVANDIVCVMQUE.MEIS
Pentameter, carminibus cumque: first Glossary comparison cumque as late a attested s.v.). of shouLd.perhaps and vulgar. under vives vulgarism, in For (e.g.) the tempus strong in elsewhere Augustine the Prop. make influence omne meis. late (Lenchantin, orthography 2.1.71 us hesitate here, quandocumque before of Cf. (Flobert the also ap. next CIL line 6.2 Gordon). in Ov.Tr. 1.6: quandiu word is Souter, 6.30111. 3.15.14 the word too But quantula decisively actually

938.30122; The 1913-4,111,

Boll.Fil.Cl. cf. quandius and defining

CIL Ov.Am.

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CIL VI

37965

= CLE

1988

(Epitaph

of

Allia

Potestas):

A Commentary

271

44 For 125 the had

EFFIGIEM.PRO

TE.TENEO.SOLACIA.NOSTRI veneration note, Tac. and of Plin.Ep. Stat. an image 2.1.12, suggest formal of the Vitr. that consolatio grief of those the deceased, 9 praef. absence and that undisturbed cf. 16, of such Stat.Silv. Tac.Agr. such 2.7. 46; veneration were

sentimental with passages a place to in Vollmer's from

the

high-minded the conventional

images by

employed

solace

philosophy!

45 QVAM COLIMVS.SANCTE
Pentameter. sius of plur.) serta Severus, 18 62f. n.20), cult); subject and (cf. in (e.g.) Prop. Poet. NW 3 1.711. Effigiem s?nete the col?re: col?re: second damus 2.33.37, (B?chner For the

SERTAQVE.MVLTA DATVR
cf. cf. half-line. CIL Stat.Silv. 6.12877,36426. Instead uses the p.149, a notes with itself passive of Enk Dahlmann, (standard) of the verb and 3.3.200, Note more and Tac.Ann. (cf. usual the rare 16.7 5,15) serta fern.sing, Bailey, 1975.6, Death, Corn. the (the Cas change (neut.

Allius with FPL

Shackleton Abh.Akad.Mainz cf.

offering

Toynbee,

46 CVMQVE.ATTE.VENIAM.MECVM.COMITATA.SEQVETVR
At not for an ad, cf. V??n?nen3, commonplace; contrast expects same 2.279 sector venias Note For 410; to the join of the Musis that the Kroll 61,69; nor Petronian Allia in common any in obvious abiit the ad same Mecum Mecum cum in the is extremely tomb, cf. cites inscr. TLL literary plures!). grave comitata possibly (cf. s.v. 472.A6. antecedents It is not Apparently (cf. clear 249 per with Vulgate 52,

epigraphie 6.18; Allius

Apul.Met. whether 50) haps verb (TLL 211 f., 47 Rasi be or cf. and s.v. DS

Lattimore sequetur: ano xoivo? in Death 480.3f. the

in

the Ov.AA participle.

Underworld. comitatus. comitor image 287

common Toynbee, CLE

1812.73ff.). s.v. Imago

appropriately

SED.TAMEN.INFELIX.CVI.TAM.SOLLEMNIA.MANDEM 731 correctly insistence observed that that Allia's in the picture context be the placed solemn in his mandate tomb. must Did a wider

Allius'

reference
the sing,

seem
tantum

likely,
(48) is

sollemnia
a metrical

would

(infra)

present
and does

fewer
not

difficulties;
bear on this

necessity

problem. This cf. BICS Allius* placing weakened escapable; which clearly line M.Amelotti 30,1983,96 expression of the sense contrast and portrait of sollemnia CIL properly has no II n.7 is relevance testamento on the for the problem Firenze avoidance and tomb 'solemn/ ut to is not a of mandatum 1966,151 of perhaps single, not things' tibi facer? rituals. legal entirely a repeated seems post n.3; post cf. mortem n. in successful. act, therefore me sollemnia and on mandatoris: 32 such and texts. The a in

Romano, studious

language

unparalleled in the as 6.13101.9 refers

imortant possint anniversary

48 SI.TAMEN.EXTITERIT
More variation inelegant on originality: tarn sollemnia

CVI.TANTVM.CREDERE.POSSIM
note mandem. the repeated tarnen and tantum credere as a

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272

N.Horsfall

49 Four 726). compares appears metrical 50

HOC.VNVM.FELIX.AMISSA.TE feet Venial (s.v. Allius' necessity. El.MIHI.VICISTI.SORS.MEA.FACTA of an hexameter,

MIHI.FORSAN.ERO followed not SHA by the second originality. 33.5 entirely and Claud. half of a Felix 21.29. and pentameter + The imposed ace: phrasing by (Rasi TLL

incompetence, 445.69ff.) own again;

Commodianic 30 is Tyr.

mihi

superfluous

TVA

EST

A correct offers CLE 974)

correct ventional

pentameter the rhythmically addressed: and

and

partly deplorable 'woe is

Ovidian

phrasing that (was)

(?ranos want to

(F.

4.520). Sors is is

Desmed personified

(585) (cf. The

explanation me,
by

she
Armini to

who

mine
1927,121). die first been

become
It (cf. more is

yours'.
con 548.7,

explanation for each

was partner

offered in but a

union Allia1

CLE efficacious; she

1138.2,1487.1,68.8,111.39), her fatum should As it But Victorio CLE s/annia not 1388/ parve years. have is, been their Armini fecit/quodque however, quidem is sed

prayers (since, reversed CLE (with

have by

to lots curiously

die have

second been misses

implication, (CLE

was

younger). 1158.3/86.3). coniunx fuit. rente notarius),

1478.1,1225.5f.,55.17f invita on name) longaeva of talent hoc aegra artate (a munus dolore pa young

1142.13-4: play priscos a matter

virum different: gravitate

vieit vicisti senex:

51 LAEDERE.QVI.HOCPOTERIT.AVSVS.QVOQVE
M.Boas Catonis of formula: argues 4.39.2 unnecessarily laedere Lattimore qui 121-3, (RhM potuit Kroll 81,1932,178-86) poterit 288, ILS

LAEDERE DIVOS
for prodesse 8172ff., the aliquando. CIL 6.5767 influence A of common laedere Dicta type noli,

TLL s.v.
widespread cf. or

laedere
'whoever

867.48ff.
shall Syntax follows. of

The
have Early

verb
harmed Latin

is

used
this 1,

(CIL 6.24760,14098
tomb' Boston formula 1910,75). (for But

b
the no

1)

in

the

fut.perf. wish, threat

C.E.Bennett, curse here the

Poterit: Norden, of manes 1,387. LHS ellipsis), 52 Titulo able by Venus,

last

syllable

lengthened Laedere divos: Less Cf. supply to too est

in

arsi the verb

at

caesura; is applied too Virg.A. ellipse and Lydia 1.8

cf. to 51, and is Hartel's

Cat. the Tib.

64.20, wounding 1.1.67 on Ov.M. (cf. s.v.

Virg.A.64,450-2. Ov.RA laedere, Ausus: 419-23, and that is 159, Luc. one e.g. of the F.4.120. 7.848. to

literally, numine or erit? laeso

cf.

Borner tolerable Paulinus

Either Commodian

indices present

Martin's commoner.

HAEC.TITVLO.INSIGNIS.CREDITE.NVMEN.HABET insignis: an inscription commonplace, RA for 779. the Numen idea that cf. TLL s.v. (Gordon);the but habet: the cf. latijnse metrische peculiarly again, deceased also Ovidian has 1508.7, grafSchriften, insignis titulus Ovidian: phrasing: quasi-divine Ov.Her. 13.159, Br?ssel 1906.20, is Prop. this cf. very variously: (eg.) power F. Kroll Sanders, 1960,329. 3.24.4 one. Not Cr?dite F.2.734,3.351, 1.90, Ex compares Bijdrage P. 2. CLE tot 'made memor not an

epigraphie 5.347, 8.6;

1057.15,1046.3,1109.16; de Studie der

University

College

London

Nicholas

Horsfall

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