epitaph to claudia

• Hospes, quod dico, paulum est: asta ac perlege.


  Passer by, what i have to say is short: stop here and read it.
• hic est sepulcrum haud pulchrum pulchrae feminae:


  This is the not beautiful tomb of a beautiful woman.
• nomen parentes nominarunt Claudiam.


  Her parents named her Claudia.
• suum maritum corde dilexit suo.


  she loved her husband with all her heart
• natos duos creavit:


  she bore two sons
• horum alterum in terra linquit,


  of these she left on earth,
• alium sub terra locat.


  the other she placed below the earth.
• Sermone lepido, tum autem incessu commodo.


  with charming conversation, and moreover with elegant step
• domum servavit, lanam fecit. dixi. abi.


  she looked after the house and she spun wool. I have spoken. Go away.