LJMgrB65 Introduction to the problem of African Latin: Homework
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Find and identify utmost deviations from the classical norm in the next inscriptional texts from Roman
Africa (for denoting the deviations of various kinds use the code system of the LLDB-Database
under http://lldb.elte.hu/admin/abbrev_codes.php; epigraphic conventions used in the transcription of
the text: (abc) parentheses, to complete abbreviations, e.g. leg(ionis); [abc] square brackets, for letters
lost or illegible, restored by conjecture, e.g. [Sep]timio; a single vertical slash | indicates the beginning
of new line in the inscription):
E.g. Iulia Co|llomba | v(ixit) a(nnos) XXVII ; D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) | C(aius) Valerius |
Fortis | vix(it) ani | fili LX / h(ic) s(itus)
Deviations: Co|llomba = Columba: l > LL, ú > O; ani = annis: nn > N, -s > ø and/or nom. pro
abl., fili = filii contractio ii.
1. P(ius) v(ir) Dion | in pace | bixsit | annos | octogenta | et instituit | arbores | quatuor milia
Deviations:
2. D(is) M(anibus) et perpetue se|curitate Val(erius) Vale|ntinus civis Ana|aunus provitus
ano|ro viginti militavit | annos dece vixit | annos triginta.
Deviations:
3. D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) | Tulia Damalis v(ixit) an|n(os) LX Cassius Se|cundus maritus |
ob meritis suis.
Deviations:
4. Bellonae Aug(ustae) sacrum Sex(tus) Horatius | Sex(ti) fil(ius) Q(uirina) Felix sacerdos
cum filis Proculu | Triumpale Felice sacerdotes templum cum omni|bus ornamentis et pictura
sua peq(unia) renovavit.
Deviations:
5. Nutu divino feliciss(imis) temporib(us) piissimor(um) dom|minor(um) nostror(um)
Iustiniani et Theodorae | Augg(ustorum) post abscisos ex Africa Vandalos | extinctamque per
Solomonem gloriosiss(imum) | et excell(entissimum) magistro militum ex consul(e)
praefect(o) | Libiae ac patricio universam Maurusiam gentem | provi[dentia eius]dem
aeminentissimi viri The|veste [civitas] a [f]undament(is) aedificata est.
Deviations: