Monday, September 23, 2024

 

Curst Be He That Moves My Bones

Reinhold Merkelbach and Josef Stauber, edd., Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten, Bd. 3: Der „Ferne Osten“ und das Landesinnere bis zum Tauros (München: K.G. Säur, 2001), p. 285, number 16/32/07 (epitaph of Montanus), lines 9-10 (my translation):
If anyone brings deceitful hands against this carving,
he will die without children, without a tomb, without relatives.

εἴ τις τῆσδε γλυφῆς δολίας χ[ε]ῖρας προσενένκ[η]ι,
ἄτεκνος ἄτυμβος ἀνανχίστευτος ὀλ[ε]ῖται.
Note the three asyndetic privative adjectives at the beginning of line 10.

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