Friday, October 21, 2022

 

Advice

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI 16169 (my translation):
Gnaeus Cornelius Bassus, son of Gnaeus, of the Aniensian tribe.

Born eighteen years ago I lived as well as I could,
dear to my father and all my friends.
Jest, play, I encourage you: there is the utmost seriousness here.

His slave Fortunatus set this up.

Cn(aeus) Cornelius Cn(aei) f(ilius) An(iensi) Bassus

decem et octo annorum natus vixi ut potui bene,
gratus parenti atque amicis omnibus.
ioceris, ludas hortor: hic summa est severitas.

posuit Fortunatus ser(vus)
The stone:
Franz Buecheler, Carmina Latina Epigraphica (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1895), p. 44, number 85:
Hat tip: Eric Thomson.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 9:23 AM


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