Abstract
An already known Latin metrical inscription from Rome, CLE 2288, was composed in elegiac couplets which can be seen on the basis of its layout. This also allows us to consider the first line as part of the metrical composition even though it has been held as prose in previous editions.
Highlights
The ordinatio, usually understood as a manual task involved in the production of ancient epigraphs, has repeatedly been studied in detail over the last few decades[1]
In this paper the term ordinatio refers to the external distribution or layout of an epigraph
The study of the ordinatio in the latter sense applied to the Latin verse inscriptions is a relatively recent and novel approach
Summary
The ordinatio, usually understood as a manual task involved in the production of ancient epigraphs, has repeatedly been studied in detail over the last few decades[1]. The study of the ordinatio in the latter sense applied to the Latin verse inscriptions is a relatively recent and novel approach. It was first developed by J. del Hoyo in a study of epigraphic carmina from Hispania[2]. CLE 2288 is fixed on the left-hand side of the hallway leading to the patio where I saw and photographed it in April 2013 It is a small marble tablet measuring (14) × (16) cm, nowadays covered with a thin coat of ochre paint, the same colour as the wall It can be dated in the first or second century AD according to its palaeography
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