Exempla antiqua

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

DIS·MANIBVS·M·DOMITI
VS·PRIMIGENIVS·FECITSIBI
ET·SVIS·LIBERTTIS·LIBERTABVSQ
POSTERISQVEEORUM

Dīs mānibus M. Domitius Prīmigenius fēcit sibi et suīs libertīs libertābusque posterīsque eōrum.

Marble cinerary urn with lid. Roman ca. A.D. 90–110. British Museum 27.122.2a, b (Fletcher Fund, 1927)

Hexagonal statue base. RIB 21. Museum of London: 3375

D M
CL MARTI
NAE AN XIX
ANENCLE
TVS
PROVINC
CONIVGI
PIENTISSIMAE
H S E

D(is) M(anibus) | Cl(audiae) Marti|nae an(norum) XIX | Anencle|tus | provinc(ialis) | coniugi | pientissimae | h(ic) s(ita) e(st)

Note: provincialis seems to mean “slave of the province.”

https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/21

Marble altar. ca. 1st c. AD. 17 x 14 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Arthur Burkhard. 1963.49.

DIS MANIB
TI CLAVDIO
NICOMACO
ARAM FECIT
SIBI

Dīs Mānib(us), Ti(beriō) Claudiō Nicomacō āram fēcit sibi.

CIL 6.13696 / 6.34073 / 1².1202

Funerary monument from the Via Appia, ca. 140 BC. http://cil.bbaw.de/dateien/cil_view.php?KO=KO0001726

HOC EST FACTUM MONUMENTUM
MAARCO CAICILIO
HOSPES GRATUM EST QUOM APUD
MEAS RESTITISTEI SEEDES
BENE REM GERAS ET VALEAS
DORMIAS SINE QURA

Hoc est factum monumentum Marcō Caeciliō. Hospes, grātum est cum apud meās restitistī sēdēs. Bene rem gerās et valeās. Dormiās sine cūrā.

CIL 6.10195

Dis Manibus.

M[arco] Antonio Nigro,

veterano Thraeci,

qui vix[it] ann[os] XXXVIII,

pugnavit XVIII.

Flavia Diogenis

coniugi suo bene

merenti

de suo fecit.

By Roman Hands 58

CIL 6.15258, 5-8

Balnea, vīna, Venus corrumpunt corpōra nostra,

sed vītam faciunt b(alnea), v(īna), V(enus)

3rd conjugation verbs in Shelmerdine 8, including facio. 3rd decl nouns, incl. corpus, were just introduced in Shelmerdine 7. Everything before corpora not in vocab yet.

Asyndeton (bvv) and metonymy (Venus)

Erected by a freedwoman of Claudius, for her partner, Tiberius Claudius Secundus, a freedman of Claudius.

By Roman Hands # 13. Courtney 170a

Full text

V(ixit) an(nis) LII.
D(is) M(anibus)
Ti(beri) Claudi Secundi.
Hic secum habet omnia.
Balnea, vina, Venus
corrumpunt corpora
nostra, set vitam faciunt,
b(alnea) v(ina) V(enus),
karo contubernal(i)
fec(it) Merope Caes(aris) 〈:serva〉
et sibi et suis p(osterisque) e(ius).

Re-enactor?

CIL 3.3247, 2-3

Terra tenet corpus, nomen lapis atque animam āēr.

Note: Tagged Shelmerdine7, since 3rd decl. in introduced in ch. 7, including corpus. Terra and teneo in vocab of chapters 5 and 6 respectively. Focus on distinguishing cases.

By Roman Hands #12

CIL 6.29609, 5–6

cinis sum; cinis terra est; terra dea est; ergō ego mortua nōn sum.

Textbook notes:

Shelmerdine introduces both sum and terra in ch. 5. Dea is also already known. Only cinis probably really needs to be provided.

Wheelock has dea in 6 and terra in 7, which also introduces 3rd decl. nouns (although not cinis). Present of sum already in ch. 4.

Appears in By Roman Hands (#7).

Cf. Epicharmus (Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec. 2.239)

εἰμὶ νεκρός, νεκρός δὲ κόπρος, γῆ δ’ ἡ κόπρος ἐστιν·

εἰ δέ τε γῆ θεός ἐστ’, οὐ νεκρός, ἀλλὰ θεός.

I am a corpse and a corpse is dirt, and dirt earth; but if the earth is a God, a God am I and not a corpse. (Tr. J. Edmonds)

CIL vi 21918; CIL vii 799

Marble tombstone

C MANILIVS
HILARVS VIXIT
ANNOS L

G(aius) Manilius Hilarus vixit annos L