Capitolo 55
But this pessimistic perspective of the life rarely appears on the monuments. Not
infrequently the special messenger passed a certain satisfaction with his/her life
registers, as ago a citizen of Beneventum that the remarks:[46] "Any men have me
offended, to many self I have made services", or he tells us some pleasure
what he has found in the good things of the life, and it recommends us to enjoy
them. A reads:[47 of the Spanish epitaph] "You eat, drinks, enjoys thyself, follows me"
(es bibe lude veni). In a lighter or more garrulous vein another says:[48]
"Comes, friends, allow us to enjoy the happy to time the life; I/you/he/she allow us to happily dine,
while the hard short life, mellows with wine, in relationships joyous. Everybody
these around us did the same while they was living. They gave, it received,
and it enjoyed the good things while they lived. And it allowed us to imitate the practices
of his/her/their fathers. Long live while You alive, and you don't envy anything to the dear soul
what Sky has given Him." This philosophy of the life is express a lot of
shortly in: What I have eaten and I have drunk that I have with me; what I have
preceded me I have lost, " [49] and even more concretely in:
"Wine and amours and baths weaken our physical health,
He/she anchors the life you/he/she is done on wine and amours and baths."[50]
Under the statue of a man reclining and holding a cup in his/her hand, Flavius
Writes:[51 of Agricultural] "Tibur was my native place; Me has called Agricultural,
Flavius also.... Me who lie here as you sees me. It is in the world above than in
the years that fates granted, I tenderly took care of my dear soul, neither it did the
god of e'er of the wine fails me.... Friends of Ye that read this, I offer you it mixes Your
wine, and before death comes, you crown Your times with flowers, and
drink.... The whole rest the earth and fire it consumes after death." Probably
we should be wrong in to trace to the teachings of Epicurus, also in them
popular form and vulgarized, the theory that the value of the life has to be