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This study focuses on the role of Latin finite verbal forms that are part of the formulae of funerary Roman inscriptions. We aim to demonstrate that the final formula fecit curavit in one inscription, in Herdade da Camugem, Elvas, Portugal, is a substandard variant in the Latin language, as has been assumed by previous authors, and an epigraphic textual variation. However, this is a single example in Lusitania and ancient Hispania, which is otherwise known only from a monumental inscription in Corinth (AE 1947, n. 90). A micro-contextual approach explains the unusual sequence fecit curavit as a case of textual variation among the formulae in four other inscriptions in the same necropolis. Bearing in mind that the other epigraphic texts were found in the same place and the characteristics of the Roman epigraphic texts in the same region, we shall demonstrate that the usage of this formula might be explained on aesthetic grounds and the result of textual variation. Moreover, it signifies a cumulative rhetorical effect of finite verbal forms that express similar and correlated actions by the person who saw the erection of the epigraphic monument.
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Latin epigraphy Lusitania Verbal forms Variation Epigraphic formulae
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Gaspar, C. (2025). Fecit curavit: A Micro-Contextual Approach to Epigraphic Formulae and Textual Variation in Latin Inscriptions. In L. Pultrová & M. Vaníková (Ed.), Exploring Latin: Structures, Functions, Meaning: Volume I: Word. Volume II: Clause and Discourse (pp. 775-788). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111332956-045
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De Gruyter