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The S face of the tomb. Left foreground, that sliver of white travertine stone belongs to the Porta Praenestina (Porta Maggiore). |
1 — This punctuation is adopted in Thes. LL.; cf. Plaut. Cist. 696.
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2 Mr. I. A. Richmond has noticed the letters P L over the door.
a More accurately, nothing could be less certain; Platner's fix is by no means accepted, and the meaning of apparet has been puzzled over by generations of scholars. For those of you with the Laterza Archaeological Guide in hand, their translation apparitore is unwarranted; tending to this conclusion several brief discussions were once to be found in the archives of the ROMARCH-L list, but like many other things in the now shrinking Web, they have disappeared.
It seems safe to say that anyone who chose to be buried in a sort of replica of a bread oven, and flatly says that his wife's ashes are in the bread oven (panario) must have been quite eccentric; apparet was probably some kind of inside joke. Hodie, non apparet.
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