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E07474: Latin verse inscription in two elegiac couplets deploring sacrilegious damage by barbarians to unnamed 'well-deserved ones (meriti)'. Now lost, but probably from the cemetery of Saint Alexander on the via Nomentana, Rome. Probably mid- or second half of the 6th c., possibly 537-555. [provisional entry]
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posted on 2019-03-23, 00:00 authored by pnowakowskicernite consurgens cultu meliore sepulchrum
quod gens infelix vertere non timuit
nec nocuit quicquam meritis nec damna paravit
sed sibi prava gerens contulit exitium
1. sepulcrum Gruter || 3. docet Sylloge Centulensis || 4. exilium sylloge Centulensis, exitum cod. Harleianus
'Behold this tomb rising anew through greater zeal, which an ill-fated people did not fear to ravage. Yet, they did not manage to do any harm, whatsoever, to the well-deserved ones, nor any damage did they do to them, but they brought ruin upon themselves by committing these wicked acts!'
Text: ICVR, n.s., VIII, no. 22965 = EDB41558. Translation: P. Nowakowski.
quod gens infelix vertere non timuit
nec nocuit quicquam meritis nec damna paravit
sed sibi prava gerens contulit exitium
1. sepulcrum Gruter || 3. docet Sylloge Centulensis || 4. exilium sylloge Centulensis, exitum cod. Harleianus
'Behold this tomb rising anew through greater zeal, which an ill-fated people did not fear to ravage. Yet, they did not manage to do any harm, whatsoever, to the well-deserved ones, nor any damage did they do to them, but they brought ruin upon themselves by committing these wicked acts!'
Text: ICVR, n.s., VIII, no. 22965 = EDB41558. Translation: P. Nowakowski.
History
Evidence ID
E07474Saint Name
Martyrs, unnamed or name lost : S00060 Saints, unnamed : S00518 Alexander, Eventius and Theodolus, bishop, priest and deacon, martyrs of Rome : S00127Saint Name in Source
meriti meriti meritiRelated Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Formal inscriptions (stone, mosaic, etc.) Literary - PoemsLanguage
- Latin