764. Fragmentary funerary verse
- Description:
- No description.
- Text:
- No description.
- Letters:
- No description.
- Date:
- No indication
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: West of the city, not far from the shore: seen by Delaporte in 1806, not seen again
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1806)
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 5363 a) = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:7, note = 10997, recording Delaporte's transcription. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Previous publications
<ab>
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n="0"
/>
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reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
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n="1"
/>
ον
παῖδά
μ’
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reason="lost"
>
ἀποφθῖσθαι
μίτος
ὡς
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reason="lost"
>
ἐπέ
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
κλωσεν
ὁ
Μοιρῶν
παῖδά
με
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reason="lost"
>
τυ
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μβε
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reason="lost"
>
ῦ
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
σαι
καὶ
ἀφε
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reason="lost"
>
γγ
</supplied>
έα
νύκτα
περᾶσαι
.
</ab>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] for me to die as a child, since the thread of the Fates spun that I should be buried as a child and come to the darkness without light.
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
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