Sunday, September 20, 2020
Estote Ergo Imitatores Dei
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 8.11, lines 1-2 (Tiberias, 3rd century AD), tr. Richmond Lattimore, Themes in Greek and Latin Epitaphs (1935; rpt. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962), p. 212:
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I lie here, Amandus, who enjoyed every kind of luxury.See Baruch Lifshitz, "Notes d'épigraphie palestinienne," Revue Biblique 73.2 (April, 1966) 248-257 (at 248-255, on "le thème de la jouissance de la vie terrestre ... dans les inscriptions funéraires").
I lived like a god for a great number of years.
ἐνθάδε κεῖμε Ἄμανδος, τρυφῆς πάσης ὁ μετασχών,
ἰσοθέως ζήσας πουλὺν ἐτῶν ἀριθμόν.
