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LATN 104: Introduction to Latin Literature: Friends and Enemies of Rome (HC)

Latin 104: Introduction to Latin Literature: Friends and Enemies of Rome (Warwick) Spring 2024

In honor of a wife

                           Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche, Roman, ca. 90–100 CE  (Source: Metropolitan Museum, public domain)

Inscription: DIS MANIBUS / COMINIAE TYCHE SANCTISSIMAE / L. ANNIUS FESTUS CONIUGI / CASTISSIMAE SIBIQ AMANTISSI / MAE
VIXIT ANNIS XXVII / MENSIBUS XI DIEBUS XXVIII / ET SIBI POSTERISQ SUIS  (To the departed spirits. To most pious Cominia Tyche, most chaste and loving wife.  She lived 27 years, 11 months, 28 days. Lucius Annius Festus made this for her and for himself and his descendants)

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