Patterns of text layout in Pompeian verse inscriptions

This article explores patterns of formal text layout of the metrical graffiti of Pompeii. After a brief discussion of the importance of formal text layout for linguistic research in general (and its relevance for poetic texts), a representative sample of poetic graffiti is discussed and analysed in detail. It is argued, then, that nature of the surface and sentence structure in particular can take precedence over the ‘default solution’ (coincidence of verse and line structures).

Modern benevolence: a satire, delivered before the Associated alumni of Union College. July 25th, 1860.

In verse.

Silvulae academicae; verses and verse translations,

Originals with Latin or Greek translation on opposite pages.

The uti possidetis and status quo : a political satire.

"First published in the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine for March, and was dated 5th February."--Advertisement, p. [3].

A ballad in macaronic Latin, entitled Rustica descriptio visitations fanaticae, being a country clergyman's tragi-comical lament upon revisiting Oxford after the root-and-branch reform of 1648, 1649.

Rev. Vaughan Thomas was editor and translator.

Lord Byron as a satirist in verse.

Mode of access: Internet.

The age of sin; or, Hints for critics a satire.

In verse.

Miscellaneous translations, in prose and verse, from Roman poets, orators, and historians.

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, in prose and verse.

Mode of access: Internet.

Black gowns & red coats, or, Oxford in 1834 : a satire, in six parts Addressed to his grace the Duke of Wellington.

Parts 2-6: 2nd edition.--NSyU

La satire contre Domitien.

Also with title-page in Latin.

Felix Farley, rhymes, : Latin and English, /

Added engraved t.p.

Satire di A. Persio Flacco.

Latin and Italian on opposite pages.

Der Trinummus des Plautus : lateinisch und deutsch, mit einer Einleitung über die Betonung der Verse und die Einrichtung der römischen Bühne /

German and Latin parallel text on opposite pages; introduction in German.

The feast of the poets, with notes, and other pieces in verse,

Shaw & Shoemaker 31773.