Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Carmina Latina Epigraphica IV: Volumen I: Carmina in provinciis reperta

The purpose of this edition is to take up Buecheler’s admirable sylloge of __Carmina Latina Epigraphica__ (1895-1926, 3 volumes)__.__ Since 1926 many new Latin metrical inscriptions and graffiti have been discovered, which greatly increased the number of epigraphic poetic texts previously known. These inscriptions have to be collected in order to be easily found, known and noticeable; the present sylloge aims at this outcome. An essential __apparatus criticus__ with textual, historical, metrical, linguistic, and stylistic notes (approximately as in Buecheler’s edition) accompanies the edition of the texts. The texts are collected in three sections; the first and major section includes the __carmina epigraphica__ whose metrical nature is undoubted, the second includes the __commatica__ and the texts of dubious nature, the third one the __aliena__. In sections one and two the texts are arranged essentially according to the diatopic distribution and, inwards, to the chronological one. A concise preface focuses the most important questions in the field of the Latin metrical epigraphy. Many indexes conclude the work in two volumes, comprising about 1600 texts. Hoc Volvmine Continentvr Praefatio Conspectus notarum et librorum Carmina Latina Epigraphica A. Carmina quae iure dici possunt 2300–2930 Sicilia Sardinia Hispaniae Britanniae Galliae (et Alpes) Germaniae Raetia Noricum Pannoniae Moesiae Dalmatia Dacia Thracia Achaia et Macedonia Asia Minor Bithynia Syria Iudaea Africae provinciae B. Dubia a) Commatica quae dicuntur 2931–2984 b) Incerta poeticum colorem exhibentia 2985–3111 C. Aliena Appendix Falsa et varia Indices I. Initia carminum II. Index nominum et cognominum III. Index locorum IV. Mythologica (dei, heroes, loci) V. Christiana (deus, homines, res) VI. Auctores VII. Carmina per genera et formas disposita VIII. Carmina per tempora disposita IX. Index rerum et verborum notabilium explicationibus disceptationibus libris instructus X. Res metrica