Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Epitaph of C. Stallius Hauranus
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum X 2971 = Carmina Latina Epigraphica 961 (from Naples; tr. Dirk Obbink):
On the inscription see Allison Catherine Boex, Hic Tacitus Lapis: Voice, Audience, and Space in Early Roman Verse-Epitaphs (diss. Cornell University, 2014), pp. 109-115, and on C. Stallius Hauranus see Kent J. Rigsby, "Hauranus the Epicurean," Classical Journal 104 (2008) 19-22.
I'm not a very clubbable man, but it wouldn't upset me to be labeled as "ex Epicureio gaudivigente choro" or "Epicuri de grege porcum" (Horace, Epist. 1.4.16).
Related post: Epitaph of an Epicurean.
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Gaius Stallius Hauranus watches this place,Gaudivigens is a hapax legomenon; Franz Buecheler ad loc. says, "gaudiuigens noue fictum quasi ἡδυθαλής, animus laetitia uiget Lucr. [3.149-150]," but ἡδυθαλής is also "noue fictum," so far as I can tell. I don't have access to Thomas Lindner, Lateinische Komposita: Ein Glossar vornehmlich zum Wortschatz der Dichtersprache (Innsbruck, 1996 = Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 105).
a member of the Epicurean chorus that flourishes in joy.
Stallius Gaius has sedes Hauranus tuetur,
ex Epicureio gaudivigente choro.
1 Hauranus lapis: Gauranus Hagenbuch
On the inscription see Allison Catherine Boex, Hic Tacitus Lapis: Voice, Audience, and Space in Early Roman Verse-Epitaphs (diss. Cornell University, 2014), pp. 109-115, and on C. Stallius Hauranus see Kent J. Rigsby, "Hauranus the Epicurean," Classical Journal 104 (2008) 19-22.
I'm not a very clubbable man, but it wouldn't upset me to be labeled as "ex Epicureio gaudivigente choro" or "Epicuri de grege porcum" (Horace, Epist. 1.4.16).
Related post: Epitaph of an Epicurean.
