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.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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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: