Perpetua Vibia Perpetua
prisoner who kept a diary · Roman Carthage · 182?–203
A twenty-two-year-old mother of Carthage. Jailed for her faith, she kept a diary in prison until her execution. It is among the oldest Latin prose written by a woman.
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AD 203 · Her first day in prison, parted from her nursing baby
And I was terrified, for I had never known such darkness. O bitter day!
et expaui, quia numquam experta eram tales tenebras.. o diem asperumThe Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, chapter 3 (the part that is her own prison diary)
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