(Español) MA4

(Español) MA4

Reference HEp 2000, 00375 | Description | Lyrics | Location | Chronology | Epigraphic edition | Translation | Apparatus | Comentary | Type of verse | Text divided into verses and metric signs | Images | Bibliography | Link to DB | Author |

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Description

  • Idno filename 22/01/0059
  • Type of inscription: Sepulcralis
  • Support: Bloque
  • Material: Mármol      Material Description: of “jaspón blanco” (that is to say, very thickly grained marble).
  • Conservation status: Broken above.
  • Dimensions height/width/depth (cm): 75/44/28
  • Epigraphic field:
    • Layout: with the remains of a lowered epigraphical field where the first line was. Under this lowered field there were another three lines.     

Lyrics

  • Letter size:The letters 2 high and T longae measuring 2.5 cm

Location

  • Place of discovery: Found in the foundations of a wall of the Alcazaba in Málaga on 17 April 1906.
  • Geolocation
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  • Conservation location: It was already reported lost by LEÓN.
  • Location with Modern Nomenclature España / Málaga
  • Location with Old Nomenclature Hispania / Baetica / Gaditanus / Malaca

Chronology

  • Inscription's dating: Between year 170 and year 230
  • Dating explanation: Its first editors dated it between the end of the 2nd c. and the beginning of the 3rd c. from the paleography.

Type of verse

  • Type of verse: Dactílico (dístico elegíaco)
  • Verse/line correspondence: No
  • Prose/verse distinction: No

Epigraphic edition

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seu manus in [‑ ‑ ‑]

     heu cito praerepto transacta est flore iuventus

quam multae votis expetiere nurus

5            l[‑ ‑ ‑] f[‑ ‑ ‑] movit quoque forma c[‑ ‑ ‑]

Text divided into verses and metric signs

 [‑ ‑ ‑]

seu manus IN[‑ ‑ ‑]

Heu cito praerepto transacta est flore Iuventia   final wlww

quam multa e votis expatiere nurus  

5       l[ubrica] f[emina] numquit quoque summa fores   lwwlwwllwwlww~

Translation

“… Oh, snatched so soon! The flower of his youth has passed away. How many young girls followed him with their pleas! …”.

Bibliography

Moreno Maldonado 1906a; Rodríguez de Berlanga 1907, 257–274, cum im. phot.; Moreno Maldonado 1906b (inde León 1970a, 54–56; id. 1970b, 5–6); Abascal – Gimeno 2000, 179 n. 282; Fernández Martínez 2006b; Fernández Martínez – Carande, CLEB, MA4, cum im. phot, quae in linguam Hispanicam verterunt; Cugusi 2012, 62. – Berlanga Palomo 2000, 279 n. 2, cum im. phot. (HEp 2000, 375).

Apparatus

2 iuventia RODRÍGUEZ DE BERLANGA, ABASCAL – GIMENO. – 3 multae RODRÍGUEZ DE BERLANGA, multa ABASCAL – GIMENO, BERLANGA PALOMO; expetiere RODRÍGUEZ DE BERLANGA, expatiere ABASCAL – GIMENO. – 4 l[ubrica]f[emina] numquit quoque summa fores ABASCAL – GIMENO, BERLANGA PALOMO.

Comentary

Rodríguez de Berlanga came up with a different transcription:

[—]
seu manus IN[—]
Heu cito praerepto transacta est
flore iuuentia
quam multa e uotis expatiere
nurus
l[ubrica] f[emina] numquit quoque
summa fores.

From the metrical point of view the initial version would have contained a fragment of elegiac carmen. The reading by Rodríguez de Berlanga is metrically incorrect in verse 2 and especially in verse 4:

[—]
seu manus IN[—]
Heu cito praerepto transacta est flore Iuuentia final klkk
quam multa e uotis expatiere nurus
l[ubrica] f[emina] numquit quoque summa fores lkklkklkklkk~

This edition proposes the text as transmitted by Moreno Maldonado. Topos of mors immatura doubly emphasised (cito and prefix prae-). With heu the dative praerepto; similar cases, heu with vocatives, accusatives, or datives, referring to people, are found both in the literature and in epigraphy (Verg. Aen. 2,738, Ou. Tr. 2,180, CLE 1337,1; 1336,1). Another topos is the metaphor of youth as flos aetatis (cf., for example, CLE 113b,2; 1149,1; 970,1). The word order of the sequence flore iuuentus, with a well-established literary and epigraphical tradition, makes it difficult to propose, as did Rodríguez de Berlanga 1907 and León 1970b, the separation of flore and iuuentus (cf. in Virgil the clausula flore iuuentus: Aen. 7,162, and epigraphical parallels: CLE 1620,3; CLE 1116,1, etc.). For nurus as a “girl” or “young woman”, there are literary antecedents such as Ov. Met. 2,366; 6,44-5,587-8 or Mart. 4,75,2, in addition to some
epigraphical parallels such as CLE 1559,2.

Images

Photo author: M. Rodríguez de Berlanga y Rosado

Link to DB

Author

  • Author:C. Fernández Martínez, R. Carande Herrero
  • Last Update2023-11-20 16:23:38

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