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POMPEIAN INSCRIPTIONS
CIL IV. 807 (on the wall of a taverna): HOSPITIVM. HIC LOCATUR TRICLINIVM CVM TRIBVS LECTIS ET COMM(odis)Guest House. Dining room to let, with three couches and furnishings. CIL IV. 1679 (graffito): wine (per sextarius) at 1, 2, 4, asses CIL IV. 1883: NEMO EST BELLVS NISI QVI AMAVIT MVLIEREM ADVLESNobody is `smart' until he has loved a young girl. CIL IV. 1454 HIC HABITAT FELICITAS.
CIL IV. 1864 SAMIVS CORNELIO: SVSPENDERE. Samius says to Cornelius: Go hang! CIL IV. EVASI, EFFVGI, SPES ET FORTVNA, VALE! I have escaped. I have fled. Hope and fortune, farewell! Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae # 7663: LATVRNIA IANVARIA, CALCARIA, VIX AN XXXXV. Laturnia Januaria, lime burner, lived 45 years. ILS # 6367: MAMIAE, P F SACERDOTI PVBLICAE. LOCVS SEPVLTVR(ae) DATVS DECVRIONVM DECRETO. To Mamia, daughter of Publius Mamius, City Priestess. Gravesite given by decree of the Town Council CIL X. 1024 + p. 967 = ILS 6366: (similarly, Année épigraphique 1913 #70 and 71) A VMBRICIO A F MEN | SCAVRO | II VIR I D | HVIC DECVRIONES LOCVM MONVM | ET HS IN FVNERE ET STATVAM EQVSTR | IN FORO PONENDAM CENSVERVNT. | SCAVRVS PATER FILIO.
[Note: The median cost for an Italian funeral was ca. 10,000 HS.]
ILS 5706: (at the Stabian Baths, mid I B.C.) C VVLIVS C F P ANINIVS C F II V I D | LACONICVM ET DESTRICTARIVM | FACIVND ET PORTICVS ET PALAESTR REFICIVNDA LOCARVNT EX D D EX | EA PEQVNIA QVOD EOS E LEGE | IN LVDOS AVT IN MONVMENTO | CONSVMERE OPORTVIT, FACIVN | COERARVNT EIDEM PROBARV.Gaius Julius (? or Vulius) son of Gaius and Pubilius Aninius son of Gaius, Duoviri, let the contracts for the Turkish Bath and the Robing Room and for the refurbishing of the Portico and the Palaestra, in accordance with a Decree of the Town Council, out of the money which the law requires them to spend for games or public works. The same officials oversaw the construction and inspection. ILS 5053 (4): A CLODIVS A F MEN FLACCVS II VIR I D TER, QVINQ, TRIB MIL A POPVLO. PRIMO DVOMVIRATV |
John Paul Adams, CSUN
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