Giovenale a Laconi

FLORIS, PIERGIORGIO

2012-01-01

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Abstract

The inscription ILSard I, 180 found in Laconi (Sardinia) at the beginning of the XX century and now disappeared is subjected to a new examination. The text, so far thought of uncertain interpretation as to the meaning and typology for the mingling of some words certainly Latin and others of obscure origin, some of which previously regarded as personal names, could actually be a quotation of the verses 268-269 of Juvenal's Satire VI not recognized by the first publisher perhaps owing to the bad conditions of the epigraph. The evaluation of elements such as the very poor fortune enjoyed by the poet until the Late Antiquity and the importance played by Laconi from the fifteenth century most likely suggest that the epigraph was engraved in the modern age rather than in the Roman.