Semne, -es f.
Semne, a Greek name, meaning revered, august, holy, the Greek equivalent of the
Latin Augusta. Semne is in the Greek dative
case.
Marcus Ulpius:
the
praenomen and nomen (i.e.,
gens name) of the Emperor Trajan.
lib[ertus], i
m.
freedman; commonly abbreviated in inscriptions.
Crotonensis, -e
of
Croton; a city on the eastern coast of Calabria in southern Italy which
was founded by Greek immigrants ca. 708 BCE and famous for being the site of
the school of the philosopher Pythagoras.
Fortunae: dative
case, as are Spei, Veneri, and
memoriae.
sacer,
sacri adjective sacred, holy.
filio: Their son died at 18
years 3 months 15 days, according to his epitaph (CIL 6.15595), which
also indicates that his tribe was Palatina and thus that he
was freeborn (i.e. born after his father’s manumission to a free/freed
mother). As his name is identical to his father’s, he was their first-born
son.
cedo, -ere, cessi cessum
+ dative
be included in; this common verb is used here in a
specialized sense. Crotonensis is carefully recording in stone the various and
extensive components of Claudia Semne's monument so that nothing is removed or
altered.
hortus, -i m.
garden; the contents of the garden make it clear that the burial area was
quite substantial.
triclia, -ae f.
summer-house.
viniola,
-ae f.
little vine-yard.
puteum, -i n.
well.
aedicula, -ae f.
small house;
shrine.
simulacrum,
-i n.
image, likeness.
forma, -ae f.
visible form, appearance;
shape.
deorum: this
was the standard inscriptional phrase for this iconography, used even when the
deceased was a woman portrayed as a goddess.
ita uti cum + indicative
just as when.
maceria, -ae f.
wall
made of stone or brick; walls were often added as garden enclosures.
circumstruo, -ere, -struxi,
-structum
build around.
heres, heredis m./f.
heir.
sequor, -i, secutus/a sum
follow; fall to the inheritance of. This is a formulaic sentence
that stipulates that the family’s heirs will not own the property and so
cannot sell off or convert the use of the monument and its garden.
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