Salvidiena Hilara
freedwoman · Roman Empire · c. 1st–3rd century
A woman who had been a slave in the household of Quintus Salvidienus and was freed. In her own lifetime she set up the gravestone of Faustilla, who died at fifteen.
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c. 1st–3rd century · A stone set up in her own lifetime by Hilara, a freed slave. At its head she calls Faustilla “her darling, taught every accomplishment”. Whether Faustilla was her own daughter or a child she brought up is not known. The date is not known exactly; it is put here in the early centuries of the Roman Empire, when most such epitaphs were cut.
You have left your mamma groaning, beating her breast, weeping. She lived 15 years, 3 months, 11 days, 7 hours. Cruel Fate snatched her away unwed. You have forsaken your poor mamma, my little life.
reliquisti mammam tuam gementem plangentem plorantem. vix(it) an. XV mensib. III dieb. XI hor. VII. virginem eripuit Fatus malus. destituisti, vitilla mea, miseram mammam tuam.Bücheler, Carmina Latina Epigraphica 1570 (CLE 1570)
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