Carsioli: novità epigrafiche
In: Archeologia Classica: 57, 2007
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In the summer of 2005 I was able to see first hand five unedited, or partially edited, Latin inscriptions, datable between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire, relating to Carsioli. The first is on the side of the construction of a porticus Apollinis overseen by four men in the persons of M. Decimius, F. f. Rufus and L. Coelius Sex. f. after the decision of the local Senate. The second, third and fourth let us know the families of the Lollii, and of the Caii Pomponii. The fifth, decorated with a doric freeze, relates to the gens Volesia, transfers the usual iambi senarii (scil. Quod par parenti fuerat facere filium/mors immatura fecit ut faceret pater), often enough inscribed as the beginning of a sepulcharal text, indicating the resignation of the parents for the premature death of a son, which prevented this natural devoted tribute of a son to his own father, and unnaturally obliged the father to attribute it to the son.