An early Latin inscription celebrates a freedwoman who lost six children but whose virtue was rewarded with manumission.
Category Archives: Latin
We all die, so have a drink while you can
Pop open a cold one and read a Roman tombstone with me.
A cultivated personality and a blithe spirit
It’s either né and née or natus and nata. Do or do not do: there is no ‘try’.
Latinists take note
Fetch your glasses and have a whack at this epitaph.
Missteps
Loss and attendant grief are terrible things, and to combat them some survivors attempt to distract themselves by entering wholeheartedly into “a project” of commemoration.
Marywood University Rotunda
Five Latin inscriptions make the Marywood Rotunda stand out!
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Charles Harris McPhail’s mourners drew on their classical education to commemorate him.
Damn, Damn, Damn!
Memoria damnata in this monument from Alexandria, VA.
Also a client . . . .
Thoughts provoked by my parents’ cemetery marker.
The tree is known by its fruit.
Lambert Tree hoped to be known by his fruit!
John Christopher Thomas
Some Latin consoled the parents of the luckless John Thomas.
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