CLA233H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Loeb Classical Library, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, Arpino
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Pia = loyal, respectful: yet no actual definition doing what you need to do. Pudica = chaste: not with anyone other than your husband. Stranger, what i have to say is not much; stand by and read it through. Here is the tomb, no lovely thing, of a lovely woman. She loved her husband with all her heart. She leaves one on earth, the other she placed beneath the earth. Pleasing in conversation, and also pleasing in her manner, Her relationship with father, husband, sons = standard. We don"t know how many were happy but we know that affection can grow. Implies ppld: no evidence, yet impossible even to obtain such evidence at the time, harmonious relationship. Aristocratic ideal carried down in the classes (a) affection is a bi-product. She who has by destiny gone before me, my only wife, Chaste in body, loving mistress of my heart, Lived faithful to a faithful husband, matching him in devotion,