Classical and Medieval Latin examples for learners
Photo: https://mainzerbeobachter.com/tag/julia-restuta/. 2nd-3rd c. AD. National Archaeological Museum, Zagreb
D(is) M(anibus)
Iūl(iae) Restutae infēlicissimae interfectae annōr(um) X caus(ā) ornāmentōr(um)
Iūl(ius) Restut(us) et Statia Pudentill(a) parent(es)
CIL III 2399
Medallion. ca. 2nd-3rd c. AD.
From http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/gladiators/polliceverso.html
at the top of the medallion [Médaillon de Cavillargues] there is the inscription STANTES MISSI, “released standing,” signifying missio or release from the arena for the two combatants, who are identified by placards in the background as Xantus, victor in fifteen contests, and Eros, victor in sixteen. The medallion, which depicts a contest between a retiarius and a secutor, dates to the late second or early third century AD and is in the Musée Archéologique (Nîmes).
http://www.maquetland.com/article-phototheque/8858-vie-quotidienne-oscillum-terre-cuite-cavillargues-nimes
http://www.amphi-theatrum.de/1889.html
Laetus sum laudārī … abs tē, pater, laudātō virō.
Cicero, Ad Fam. 5.12.7
Stone Altar. AD 197–198. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge, UK). D 1970.3
D(e)ae Fortunae
Virius Lupus
leg(atus) Aug(usti) pr(o) pr(aetore)
balineum vi
ignis exust-
um coh(orti) I Thr-
acum resti-
tuit curan-
te Val(erio) Fron-
tone praef(ecto)
eq(uitum) alae Vetto(num)
Deae Fortūnae.
Virius Lupus, lēgātus Augustī prō praetōre,
balineum vī ignis exustum cohortī I Thrācum restituit
cūrante Valeriō Frontōne, praefectō equitum ālae Vettōnum.
Temple of Saturn. Rome. By Diana Ringo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons