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Latin curse tablets, Curse tablets from Baetica (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.
28136.4.7–52736.4
[- - -]SI
[...]SI
[- - -]RE
[...]RE
Dis inferis vos rogo utei (!) recipiates (!) nomen
Gods of the underworld, I ask you to take up the name
Luxsia A(uli) Antesti filia caput cor cos[i]lio(m!) valetudine(m)
Luxsia, daughter of Aulus Antestius: head, heart, mind, health,
vita(m) membra omnia accedat morbo cotidea (!) et
life, all her limbs; may disease come upon [her] daily, and
sei (!) faciatis votum quod faccio (!) solva(m) vostris (!) meretis (!)
if you do [this], I will pay the vow that I am making, as you deserve.
Translator's note. Lines 4.7-4.8 belong to another tablet (28136) and keep only the letters SI and RE at the ends of lost lines; they cannot be translated. In 52736 the spelling is non-standard throughout (marked (!) by the edition). 'accedat morbo cotidea' has no expressed subject: if morbo stands for morbus, 'may disease come upon [her] daily'; taken as written, 'may [she] come to disease daily'. In cos[i]lio(m) ('mind', literally 'counsel') one letter is restored.
The whole original: the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg.