D. M.

AELIA . LAELIA . CRISPIS .

NEC . VIR . NEC . MULIER . NEC . ANDROGYNA .

NEC . PUELLA . NEC . JUVENIS . NEC . ANUS .

NEC . CASTA . NEC . MERETRIX . NEC . PUDICA .

SED . OMNIA .

SUBLATA .

NEQUE . FAME . NEQUE . FERRO . NEQUE . VENENO .

SED . OMNIBUS .

NEC . COELO . NEC . AQUIS . NEC . TERRIS .

SED. UBIQUE . JACET .

LUCIUS . AGATHO . PRISCUS .

NEC . MARITUS . NEC . AMATOR . NEC . NECESSARIUS .

NEQUE . MOERENS . NEQUE . GAUDENS . NEQUE . FLENS .

MANC. NEC . MOLEM . NEC . PYRAMIDEM .

NEC . SEPULCHRUM .

SCIT . ET . NESCIT .

CUI . POSUERIT .

TO THE GODS OF THE DEAD

Aelia Laelia Crispis,

Not man, nor woman, nor hermaphrodite;

Not girl, nor youth, nor old woman;

Not chaste, nor unchaste, nor modest;

But all:

Carried off,

Not by hunger, not by sword, nor by poison

But by all:

Lies,

Not in air, not in earth, not in the waters

But everywhere.

Lucius Agatho Priscus,

Not her husband, nor her lover, nor her friend;

Not sorrowing, nor rejoicing, nor weeping;

Erecting

This, not a stone-pile, nor a pyramid,

Nor a sepulchre

But all:

Knows, and knows not,

To whom he erects it.

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