Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Where Are You Rushing?
Giusto Traina, 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, tr. Allan Cameron (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009; rpt. 2011), p. xvii with note on p. 135:
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Thus the man who was buried in Apamea of Syria in a Christian sepulcher dated to the early fifth century must have requested the ancient pagan motto that appears on its threshold and no doubt expresses his fatalism: "Are you rushing?—I am. And where are you rushing?—To this place."16A fuller reference to the inscription is Louis Jalabert and René Mouterde, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, t. 4: Laodicée, Apamène, Nos 1243-1997 (Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1955 = Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 61), number 1439 (non vidi):
16. "Inscriptions grecques et latines de Syrie," IV, 1439, in D. Feissel, “Notes d’épigraphie chrétienne” (X), Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, 119, 1995, pp. 386–89.
☩ τρέχις; τρέχω. αἵως ποῦ; αἵως ὧδαι. ☩In normalized spelling:
τρέχεις; τρέχω. ἕως ποῦ; ἕως ὧδε.
