The document summarizes several Pompeian inscriptions found in Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). [1] An inscription advertises a dining room for rent with three couches and furnishings. [2] A graffito lists wine prices. [3] Other inscriptions include sayings, insults, and memorials. One honors a priestess and another details public games and expenditures of a duumvir.

1. POMPEIAN INSCRIPTIONS
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum IV. 807 (on the wall of a
taverna):
HOSPITIVM. HIC LOCATUR TRICLINIVM CVM TRIBVS
LECTIS ET COMM(odis)
Guest House. Dining room to let, with three couches and
furnishings.
CIL IV. 1679
(graffito): wine (per sextarius) at 1, 2, 4, asses
which = 12, 24 and 48 HS per amphora.
(Columella's stated cost for an amphora of wine is 15 HS per
amphora).
CIL IV. 1883:
NEMO EST BELLVS NISI QVI AMAVIT MVLIEREM
ADVLES
Nobody is `smart' until he has loved a young girl.
CIL IV. 1454
HIC HABITAT FELICITAS.
Here dwells happiness. [Her name? (as in Petronius) or
an indication of the result of a professional meeting with

2. her?? Viewing the original inscription suggests the
latter.]
CIL IV. 7038: CIL IV. 4764:
STERCORARI. AD MVRVM PERARI, FVR ES.
PROGREDERE
You shit. Up against the wall. Perarius, you're a
thief!
CIL IV. 1864
SAMIVS CORNELIO: SVSPENDERE. Samius says to
Cornelius: Go hang!
CIL IV.
EVASI, EFFVGI, SPES ET FORTVNA, VALE! I have escaped. I
have fled. Hope and fortune, farewell!
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae # 7663:
LATVRNIA IANVARIA, CALCARIA, VIX AN XXXXV. Laturnia
Januaria, lime burner, lived 45 years.
ILS # 6367
MAMIAE, P F SACERDOTI PVBLICAE. LOCVS
SEPVLTVR(ae) DATVS DECVRIONVM DECRETO.

3. To Mamia, daughter of Publius Mamius, City Priestess.
Gravesite given by decree of the Town Council
CIL X. 1024 + p. 967 = ILS 6366: (similarly, Année
épigraphique 1913 #70 and 71)
A VMBRICIO A F MEN | SCAVRO | II VIR I D | HVIC
DECVRIONES LOCVM MONVM | ET HS IN FVNERE
ET
STATVAM EQVSTR | IN FORO PONENDAM
CENSVERVNT. | SCAVRVS PATER FILIO.
To Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, son of Aulus, tribe
Menenia, Duovir of the Colony. The Decuriones voted
for a site, a monument, 2000 HS for the funeral, and an
equestrian statue to be erected in the Forum. Scaurus
the Father for his son..
[Note: The median cost for an Italian funeral was ca. 10,000
HS.]
ILS 5706: (at the Stabian Baths, mid I B.C.)
C VVLIVS C F P ANINIVS C F II V I D | LACONICVM ET
DESTRICTARIVM | FACIVND ET PORTICVS ET
PALAESTR REFICIVNDA LOCARVNT EX D D EX | EA
PEQVNIA QVOD EOS E LEGE | IN LVDOS AVT IN
MONVMENTO | CONSVMERE OPORTVIT, FACIVN |
COERARVNT EIDEM PROBARV.
Gaius Julius (? or Vulius) son of Gaius and Pubilius
Aninius son of Gaius, Duoviri, let the contracts for the
Turkish Bath and the Robing Room and for the
refurbishing of the Portico and the Palaestra, in
accordance with a Decree of the Town Council, out of
the money which the law requires them to spend for
games or public works. The same officials oversaw the
construction and inspection.

4. ILS 5053 (4):
A CLODIVS A F MEN FLACCVS II VIR I D TER, QVINQ,
TRIB MIL A POPVLO. PRIMO DVOMVIRATV
APOLLINARIB IN FORO POMPAM, TAVROS,
TAVROCENTAS, SVCCVRSORES, PONTARIOS
PARIA III, PVGILES
CATERVARIOS ET PYCTAS, LVDOS OMNIBVS
ACRVAMATIS PANTOMIMISQ OMNIBVS ET PYLADE
ET HS n ((I)) IN
PVBLICVM PRO DVOMVIRATV. SECVNDO
DVOMVIRATV QUINQ APOLLINARIBVS IN FORO
POMPAM, TAVROS,
SVCCVRSORES, PVGILES CATERVARIOS;
POSTERO DIE SOLVS IN SPECTACVLIS ATLETAS
PAR XXX GLAD PAR V,
ET GLADIAT PAR XXXV ET VENATION TAVROS
TAVROCENTAS APROS VRSOS CETERA
VENATIONE VARIA CVM
COLLEGA. TERTIO DVOMVIRATV LVDOS FACTIONE
PRIMA, ADIECTIS ACRVAMATIS CVM COLLEGA.
Aulus Clodius Flaccus, son of Aulus, Tribe Menenia,
Duovir three times (once as Quinquennial), Military
Tribune elected by the People. In his first term, at the
Apollo Games (first half of July) in the Forum (he
presented) a Procession, bullfights, bullbaiting, .....
boxers and games with all the usual appurtenances and
pantomimes and Pylades, and (spent) 10,000 HS on the
public for his duumvirate. In his second (Quinquennial)
term, at the Apollo Games in the Forum he presented a
procession, bullfights,....boxers ; on the next day he
alone put on at the spectacles 30 pairs of athetes, 5
pairs of gladiators, and with his colleague he presented
25 pairs of gladiators and the animal hunts, bullfighting,
bull-baiting, wild boars, bears and other animals in
various hunts. In his third term along with his colleague
he presented games with the appropriate
accompaniments ? in the first round ? .
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January 26, 2010 9:04 AM

5. John Paul Adams, CSUN
john.p.adams@csun.edu
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