43 CIL 6.1363

This inscription is one of several erected in honor of a woman by another woman or women on the Via Appia outside of Rome.

Text

Caeciliae verissimae / clarissimae memoriae / sanctissimae feminae, / Atilia Rufina claris(ima) fem(ina) / et Caesonia Victorina / amicae incomparabili.

Commentariolum

1 verissimae clarissimae memoriae: genitive of quality.

Interrogata

  1. How does the distribution of words in the inscription contribute to its message?
  2. What social status to you think Caecilia was? What makes you think so?

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