This paper focuses on the Latin verse funerary inscription of 12-years-old Constantina, found in Hippo Regius and dating from the 6th-7th AD. The metrical structure and the language of the epitaph are investigated, as presumably resulting from the collaboration of a literate ‘author’ with an illiterate scribe. Furthermore, the meaning of the Vergilian echoes featuring in the text is reexamined.
L’epitafio di Costantina (CLEAfr 151): un lapicida maldestro per un “poeta” scolastico / P.F. Moretti (FUORI COLLANA). - In: Ubi homo, ibi lingua : Studi in onore di Maria Patrizia Bologna. 2 / [a cura di] F. Dedè, L. Biondi, A. Scala. - Alessandria : Dell'Orso, 2022. - ISBN 978-88-3613-283-6. - pp. 881-894
L’epitafio di Costantina (CLEAfr 151): un lapicida maldestro per un “poeta” scolastico
P.F. Moretti
2022
Abstract
This paper focuses on the Latin verse funerary inscription of 12-years-old Constantina, found in Hippo Regius and dating from the 6th-7th AD. The metrical structure and the language of the epitaph are investigated, as presumably resulting from the collaboration of a literate ‘author’ with an illiterate scribe. Furthermore, the meaning of the Vergilian echoes featuring in the text is reexamined.
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