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Lucius Sestius Sotericus for himself and for Sestia Prisca his fellow freedwoman and well-deserving wife, with whom he lived for 30 years, and about whom he had no reason for sadness except through her death; and for Titus Titius Bassus his friend, an excellent man of remarkable conduct; and for his freedmen and freedwomen and for their descendants; 12 feet wide, 12 feet deep.
Sestius Sotericus and Sestia Prisca had been freed by the same patron. This inscription would probably have been displayed in front of their tomb,
defining who had the legal right to burial there. It includes the husband and wife, a friend, and their household (including descendants).
The praise given by Sestius Sotericus for his wife, that she had caused him no sadness whilst she lived, is echoed in other epitaphs,
where martial harmony (or
CCastellini, G. Zaratino (published by Minasi in 1893) p.210 no.29; Sirmond MS. BNF Paris suppl. Lat. 1419 = Lat. 10808, no. 269; Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 f.42’, Doni BN Naples MS G.XII.75 fol. 354, 7 (according to CIL – scanned MS not legible here); Doni Barb. Lat. 2756 f.155 from Menestrier; Gude MS. 240, 1 from schedae of Holstenius (according to CIL); Selden (1629) 53 no.8; Prideaux (1676) p.91, no.23; Reinesius (1682) p.760, no.137 (following Selden); Fabretti (1702) p.275 no.161;Maittaire (1732) p.36, no.65; Chandler (1763) p.132, no.21; CIL VI.4 fasc.1 no.26467a [Hübner] (1894); CIL VI.4, fasc.2 p.3533 (1902)
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