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Latin curse tablets, Curse tablets from Aquitania (Epigraphic Database Heidelberg)
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
399.2–46146.4
[l]ege vade qu(a)ere quis vae [tibi][tibi]
[R]ead, go, look for who [it is]: woe [to you], [to you].
Andedion vediiumi diiiuion risun
Of the nether (?) gods (?) I invoke (?), by means of (?)
artiu Mapon Arueriiatin
the strength (?) [of] Maponos Arveriiatis (?):
lopites snieddic sos brixtia anderon
torment (?) and bind (?) them by the magic of the nether ones (?):
C(aion) Lucion Floron Nigrinon adgarion Aemili-
Gaius Lucius Florus Nigrinus the accuser (?), Aemili-
Translator's note. Line 399.2 is Latin and comes from a different tablet; 'quis' and 'vae' are hard to construe, and 'who [it is]' is a guess. Lines 46146.1 to 4 are in Gaulish, not Latin, and most of lines 1 to 3 is of disputed meaning, so the rendering is tentative throughout. The senses assumed are uediiumi 'I invoke', diiiuion 'of the gods', andedion and anderon 'of the nether ones', brixtia 'magic', sos 'them', adgarion 'accuser'; risun, artiu, lopites and sniEddic are obscure. Mapon(os) Arueriiatis is a god, with an epithet perhaps meaning 'of the Arverni'. The names in line 4 are Latin names in Gaulish accusative form; Aemili- runs on into the next line.
The whole original: the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg.