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Latin curse tablets, Curse tablets from Hispania citerior (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.
47554.6–51474.2.8
[- - -]m do pequniam (!) (h)onori sacri-
[...] I give money in honour, the sacri-
cola
ficer.
Ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ κα[ὶ] ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐμῶν τοῖς κατὰ δην δίδω-
For myself an[d] for my own, to those below I
μι παραδίδωμι Νεικίαν καὶ Τειμὴν
give, I hand over Nicias and Time
καὶ τοὺς ἄ[λ]λους οἷς δικ-
and the ot[h]ers whom
αίως κατηρασά-
justly I have
μην
cursed.
Pro me pro meis devotos defixos inferis
For me, for mine, devoted, bound to those below,
devotos defixos inferis Timen et Nici-
devoted, bound to those below: Time and Nici-
am et ceteros quos merito
as, and the rest whom deservedly
devovi supr[a pro] me
I have devoted, as ab[ove, for] me,
pro mei[s]
for mi[ne].
Timen
Time
Nician
Nicias
Nicia[n]
Nicia[s]
Translator's note. Two texts. The first (lines 1–2) is a fragment: (h)onori sacricola is obscure, perhaps 'to Honos' or the dedicant's title; sacricola ('sacrificer, priest') is split across the lines, and pequniam is misspelt (marked ! by the edition). In the second, a Greek and Latin pair, κατὰ δην is taken as 'below [the earth]', matching Latin inferis.
The whole original: the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg.