Memento mori: the uses of the future imperative in the Carmina Latina Epigraphica

This paper offers an examination of the use(s) of the future imperative in the Latin verse inscriptions. Following introductory considerations about speech act theory, the use of directives, and politeness (with special emphasis on the Carmina Latina Epigraphica), the paper gives an overview of relevant instances. It presents an argument in favour of a (re-)interpretation of the Latin future imperative as a mode to express deontic and thetic arrangements with little immediacy. Additionally, it is possible to detect traces of a deliberate use of the future imperative as a means of marking linguistic register in contexts where it otherwise, if following a more traditional concept of the future imperative, would seem out of place

P. Hofmanni Peerlkamp Liber de vita doctrina et facultate Nederlandorum qui carmina latina composuerunt.

Running title: De poëtis latinis Nederlandiarum.

Ignatii Guillelmi Gratiani ... Carmina Latina et Italica Thomae Felicis Gratiani fr. cura & studio collecta.

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C. A. Boettigeri. Opuscula et carmina latina.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Recentiorvm poetarvm Germanorvm carmina Latina selectiora ex recensione M. Ioannis Tobiae Roenickii. Helmstadii ex mandato editoris apvd Christ. Frid.

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P. Hofmanni Peerlkamp Liber de vita doctrina et facultate Nederlandorum qui carmina Latina composuerunt.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sugli epigrammi latini del Petrarca

[IT] Un gruppo di tre manoscritti trasmette una piccola e assai curiosa collezione di epigrammi latini del Petrarca: a proposito di una recente edizione di alcuni di essi (F. Petrarca, Gabbiani, ed. F. Rico, Milano, Adelphi, 2008), in questo articolo vengono illustrati vari aspetti testuali che potrebbero essere rilevanti per determinare l’origine controversa della tradizione degli epigrammi.

Anthologia latina : sive poesis latinae supplementum /

Pars.1. Carmina in codicibus scripta, recensuit Alexander Riese. fasc.1. Libri Salmasiani aliorumque carmina.--fasc.2. Reliquorum librorum carmina.--Pars.2. Carmina epigraphica, conlegit Franciscus Buecheler. fasc.1-2. Carmina latina epigraphica.--fasc.3. Supplementum, curavit Ernestus Lommatzsch.

Poems /

Publisher's notices: p. [171]

CIL 5.8270 – Metrical dedication for Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus

Squeeze, photograph, and notes by A.E. Gordon

CIL 6.1284-1285 – Metrical epitaph on a sarcophagus for Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus

Photographs and translation