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Ashby,T.: The classical Topography of the roman campagna. The via latina. Introduction
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Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—III.
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patris ac matris es miserata preces\. Accepta et cara sueis mortua hie sita
sum ; | cinis sum ; cinis terra est, terra dea est; | ergo ego mortua non sum.’
An elegiac couplet has been transformed into three lines, and the metre
ruined, by the insertion of the girl’s name, Utilis, and her age. The
sentiment of the last three lines (as in the case of ibid. 35887) is borrowed
from an epigram of Epicharmus (Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec. ii. 239),
et/w νεκρός, νεκρός δε κόπρος, γή δ’ η κόπρος εστίν·
εί δε τε γή θεός εστ’, ού νεκρός, άλλα θεός,
but here too the insertion of accepta et cara sueis has played havoc with the
metre of the translation, which, Htilsen conjectures {C.I.L. in loci), may have
run
heic ego mortua sum ; cinis sum ; terra est cinis ; at si
terra dea est, ego non mortua sum, dea sum.
9409 (ill. Allius Apollonius, faber tignarius maglister) in fam(ilia)
praeflectus') decluriae) vix{it) an(nis) lx) was found in the same place.
9043 is mentioned by Ficoroni in a letter to Muratori of May 6,
1741, ‘ Ho detto a un mio cercatore che la vadi a comprare, non so a
qual distanza della via Latina.’ It runs Salvius Antoniae Drus(i)
spatarius. The Antonia referred to is the younger daughter of Mark
Antony, the mother of Germanicus and Claudius (Prosopographia, i.
p. 106, no. 707). Spatarius must be a maker of swords (Italian
‘ spada ’).
On the other hand it should be noted that, after all, there is no
evidence that the inscriptions 7233-7242 (grouped together in C.I.L. vi.
part ii) really belonged to the same columbarium : indeed the only one of
which it can be safely said that it was found on the Via Latina at all is
7241 = 11301/2 (‘extra portam Latinam reperta anno 1733 ’). See C.I.L. vi.
p. 3429.
Just beyond is the site of the first milestone. ‘Near the first mile’
was found the male bust, no. 123, of the Museo Torlonia, according to
the catalogue (but cf. infra, 30). Here the Via Latina is joined by the
Vicolo delle Tre Madonne, which comes due S. from the Porta S. Giovanni,
and probably follows the line of an ancient road (Lanciani, Forma Urbis,
yfy though it now has no traces of antiquity. In the Vigna delle Tre
Madonne, belonging to one Frediani, formerly Vigna Pieri, in 1826 a
fragment of a large sarcophagus was found, with reliefs representing two
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patris ac matris es miserata preces\. Accepta et cara sueis mortua hie sita
sum ; | cinis sum ; cinis terra est, terra dea est; | ergo ego mortua non sum.’
An elegiac couplet has been transformed into three lines, and the metre
ruined, by the insertion of the girl’s name, Utilis, and her age. The
sentiment of the last three lines (as in the case of ibid. 35887) is borrowed
from an epigram of Epicharmus (Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec. ii. 239),
et/w νεκρός, νεκρός δε κόπρος, γή δ’ η κόπρος εστίν·
εί δε τε γή θεός εστ’, ού νεκρός, άλλα θεός,
but here too the insertion of accepta et cara sueis has played havoc with the
metre of the translation, which, Htilsen conjectures {C.I.L. in loci), may have
run
heic ego mortua sum ; cinis sum ; terra est cinis ; at si
terra dea est, ego non mortua sum, dea sum.
9409 (ill. Allius Apollonius, faber tignarius maglister) in fam(ilia)
praeflectus') decluriae) vix{it) an(nis) lx) was found in the same place.
9043 is mentioned by Ficoroni in a letter to Muratori of May 6,
1741, ‘ Ho detto a un mio cercatore che la vadi a comprare, non so a
qual distanza della via Latina.’ It runs Salvius Antoniae Drus(i)
spatarius. The Antonia referred to is the younger daughter of Mark
Antony, the mother of Germanicus and Claudius (Prosopographia, i.
p. 106, no. 707). Spatarius must be a maker of swords (Italian
‘ spada ’).
On the other hand it should be noted that, after all, there is no
evidence that the inscriptions 7233-7242 (grouped together in C.I.L. vi.
part ii) really belonged to the same columbarium : indeed the only one of
which it can be safely said that it was found on the Via Latina at all is
7241 = 11301/2 (‘extra portam Latinam reperta anno 1733 ’). See C.I.L. vi.
p. 3429.
Just beyond is the site of the first milestone. ‘Near the first mile’
was found the male bust, no. 123, of the Museo Torlonia, according to
the catalogue (but cf. infra, 30). Here the Via Latina is joined by the
Vicolo delle Tre Madonne, which comes due S. from the Porta S. Giovanni,
and probably follows the line of an ancient road (Lanciani, Forma Urbis,
yfy though it now has no traces of antiquity. In the Vigna delle Tre
Madonne, belonging to one Frediani, formerly Vigna Pieri, in 1826 a
fragment of a large sarcophagus was found, with reliefs representing two