Capitolo 49
recognition from the living one, for them they appeal to the passer-by to often
halt and he/she read their epitaphs, and as the Roman it walked along the Way of Appian
two thousand years ago, or as us we wonder aimlessly along the same street to-day public, it
it is in opposite silent with the corpse. The same stone sometimes addresses him
us, as ago that of Olus Granius:[22] "This mute stone implores thee to stay himself/herself/themselves,
extraneous, until you/he/she has disclosed his/her mission and you/he/she has said thee which shades him
covers. Here lies the bones of a man, modest, honest, and trusted--the
town crier, Olus Granius. That is everything. He/she wanted thee not to know of
this. Thee of the rate well." This persistently asking for the attention of the passer-by
the composer of an epitaph falls for using rather the same equipment that
our advertisers assume in the road-cars when they says: "You don't look to
this stain", for him he/she writes: "You don't turn so Your eyes and you don't desire to
you learn our fate", but two lines later, sweetening, he adds: "Now the stop,
traveller... inside this narrow remain-place, " [23] and then we get the
whole history. Sometimes a dramatic touch, realistic you/he/she is given putting the
registration in the form of a dialogue among the corpse and those that are
gone away behind. On a stone found next to runs in Rome the inscription:[24]
"Regards, expensive name to us, Stephanus,... the thy Moschis and thy the regard of Diodorus
thee." To that man's replicas death: "Hail chaste wife, hail Diodorus,
my friend, my brother." The dead man often implores for a pleasant word from
the passer-by. The Romans, for example that he/she left Wafer from the public road,
reads on a stone the sentiment:[25] "May is all right with you who lie
among and, as for You who go Your way and they read these lines, 'the earth
slightly remains on thee' says." This pious regard loses some of the taste
of the spontaneity in our eyes when we find that you/he/she was become so a lot of a
convention as to be suitable from the initial letters of the a lot of words: