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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

47554.6

[- - -]m do pequniam (!) (h)onori sacri-

[...] I give money in honour, the sacri-

47554.7

cola

ficer.

51474.1.1

Ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ κα[ὶ] ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐμῶν τοῖς κατὰ δην δίδω-

For myself an[d] for my own, to those below I

51474.1.2

μι παραδίδωμι Νεικίαν καὶ Τειμὴν

give, I hand over Nicias and Time

51474.1.3

καὶ τοὺς ἄ[λ]λους οἷς δικ-

and the ot[h]ers whom

51474.1.4

αίως κατηρασά-

justly I have

51474.1.5

μην

cursed.

51474.2.1

Pro me pro meis devotos defixos inferis

For me, for mine, devoted, bound to those below,

51474.2.2

devotos defixos inferis Timen et Nici-

devoted, bound to those below: Time and Nici-

51474.2.3

am et ceteros quos merito

as, and the rest whom deservedly

51474.2.4

devovi supr[a pro] me

I have devoted, as ab[ove, for] me,

51474.2.5

pro mei[s]

for mi[ne].

51474.2.6

Timen

Time

51474.2.7

Nician

Nicias

51474.2.8

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.