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CHAPTER LVII

. THE GRAFFITI

_Publication_: the graffiti are collected, C. I. L. IV. pp. 76-166 (nos. 1205-2549 _c_), pp. XVII-XVIII (nos. 3297-3339), and Suppl., pt. 2, pp. 499-599 (nos. 3885 _et seq._). Cf. CORRERA, Graffiti di Roma, Bull. com., 1893, pp. 245-260, 1894, pp. 89-100, and pls. II-VI, 1895, pp. 193-216.

_Admiror, paries_ [p. 491]: found in the Large Theatre, the Amphitheatre, and the Basilica; C. I. L. IV. 1904, 2461, 2487; Bull. dell' Inst., 1867, pp. 50-53; Bull. com., 1894, p. 99; BUECHELER, Carmina Latina epigraphica, no. 957 (vol. 1, Leipzig, 1895), p. 440. _References to writing on walls in ancient authors_: Plin. Epist. VIII. VIII. 7; Mart. Ep. XII. LXI. 7-10; Cic. In Verr. III. XXXIII. 77. _Metrical graffiti_: BUECHELER, Die metrischen Wandinschriften, Rhein. Mus., vol. 12 (1857), pp. 250-260.

_Graffiti relating to the conflict in the Amphitheatre_ [p. 492]: see references on pp. 529-530.

_Praetorian guard_ [p. 492]: C. I. L. IV. 1994.

_Names and greetings_ [p. 493]--_Paris, Sabinus_: C. I. L. IV. 1245, 1305. _Aemilius_: C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 5350. _Samius, Pyrrhus_: C. I. L. IV. 1864, 1852.

_Love_ [p. 494]--_Quisquis amat_: Bull. dell' Inst., 1876, p. 233; C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 4091; cf. C. I. L. IV. 1173, 3199: BUECHELER, Carm. Lat. epigr., nos. 945, 946. _Nemo est bellus_: C. I. L. IV. 1883; BUECHELER, 233; Roem. Mitth., vol. 13 (1898), p. 45. _Nam nemo flammas_: C. I. L. IV. 1898; BUECHELER, 948. _Alliget hic auras_: C. I. L. IV. 1649; BUECHELER, 944. _Si quis forte meam_: C. I. L. IV. 1645; BUECHELER, 953, 954.

_Quotations and paraphrases_ [p. 495]: Propert. II. V. 9; C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 4491; Bull. dell' Inst., 1875, p. 191: Ovid, Ars Am. I. 475-476, and C. I. L. IV. 1895.

_Lovers' messages_ [p. 495]--_Victoria_: C. I. L. IV. 1477. _Cestilia_: ibid., 2413 _h_. _Pupa_: ibid., 1234; BUECHELER, no. 232. _Serena_: Bull. dell' Inst., 1874, p. 269; C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 3928-3930. _Si quid amor_: Not. d. scavi, 1883, p. 53; BUECHELER, no. 935.

_Lovers' complaints_ [p. 496]: _Tu, dea_: C. I. L. IV. 2310 _k_. _Quoted couplets joined_: ibid., 1893, 1894. _Threat against Venus_: ibid., 1824; Roem. Mitth., vol. 8 (1893), p. 59 (no. 29); BUECHELER, no. 947.

_Records of tarrying_ [p. 496]--_Romula_: C. I. L. IV. 2060. _Staphilus_: C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 4087. _Restitutus_: Roem. Mitth., vol. 7 (1892), p. 25; BUECHELER, 355. _Varus and Pelagia_: C. I. L. IV. 2321. _Balbus and Fortunata_: Bull. dell' Inst., 1883, p. 195; C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 4933.

_Greeting of Hirtia Psacas_ [p. 497]. Bull. dell' Inst., 1894, p. 201; C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 3905.

_Memoranda_ [p. 497]--_gambling_: C. I. L. IV. 2119. _Paces_: ibid., 1714. _Advent of young_: Bull. dell' Inst., 1874, p. 202; C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 3890. _Figures_: C. I. L. IV. 1996, 2008, 2011, 2020, etc. _Oleum l. a._: C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 4000; FIORELLI, Descrizione di Pompei, p. 59.

_Catchwords, quotations, proverbs_ [p. 498]: _Verg. Aen. I. 1_: C. I. L. IV. 1282, 2361, 3198. _Aen. II. 1_: ibid., 2213, and often; Roem. Mitth., vol. 8 (1893), p. 57.[5] _Lucr. I. 1_: C. I. L. IV. 3072. _Minimum malum_: ibid., 1811, 1870. _Moram si quaeres_: ibid., 2069.