A nameless person of Hispania
left words on a gravestone · Hispania, Roman Empire · c. 1st–3rd century
Someone who left one line on a gravestone in Roman Hispania, now Spain and Portugal. 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.
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c. 1st–3rd century · The date is not known exactly; it is put here in the early centuries of the Roman Empire, when most such epitaphs were cut.
I lived the way I wanted. Why I died, I do not know.
Vixi, quem ad modum volui; quare mortuus sum, nescio.Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum II 6130 (CIL II 6130)
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