A Roman who loved the baths
left words on a gravestone · Rome · c. 1st–3rd century
Someone who left two lines on a gravestone found in the city of Rome. Epitaphs speak in the voice of the dead, but whether the words were composed by the dead person, the family or the stonecutter cannot be known.
Posts
c. 1st–3rd century · The end of the second line is cut on the stone only as the initials B V V; the brackets fill them out. The date is not known exactly; it is put here in the early centuries of the Roman Empire, when most such epitaphs were cut.
Baths, wine and love ruin our bodies, but baths, wine and love make life.
Balnea vina Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra,
set vitam faciunt b(alnea) v(ina) V(enus).Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI 15258 (CIL VI 15258)
1 in 100 Billion · The social network of those who came before us