| Pertaining to Basilica S.Petri apostoli (via Cornelia) |
| Titulus sepulchralis |
| Now Lost |
| Date: 638 |
| Edition(s): ICVR II, 4161; Durliat 1998; Trout 2021 |
| pastorem magnum laudis pia praemia lustrant qui functus Petri hac vice summa tenet effulgit tumulis nam praesul Honorius istis cuius magnanimum nomen honorque manet sedis apostolicae meritis nam iura gubernans dispersos revocat optima lucra refert ut sagax animo divino in carmine pollens ad vitam pastor ducere novit oves Histria nam dudum saevo sub scismate fessa ad statuta patrum teque monente redit Iudaicae gentis sub te est perfidia victa sic unum Domini reddis ovile pium adtonitum patriae sollers sic cura movebat optata ut populis esset ubique quies quem doctrina potens quem sacra regula vitae pontificum pariter sanxit habere decus sanctiloqui semper in te commenta magistri emicuere tui tamquam fecunda nimis nam qui Gregorii tanti vestigia iusti dum sequeris cupiens et meritumque geris aeternae lucis Christo dignante perennem cum patribus sanctis posside iamque diem his ego epitaphiis merito tibi carmina solvi quod patris eximii sim bonus ipse memor |
| Transcription different from ICVR. According to Trout. 19in. NAM QUI, Silvagni. 24. Silvagni considered BONUS as a proper name, possibly of the author of the text; de Rossi interpreted the word as DONUS, pointing to Pope Donus (676-678) as the author. Epitaph of Honorius II (625-638), composed by twelve elegiac couplets. Trout shows compelling similarities between our inscription and the eulogy of Pope Honorius in the 'Vita Columbani et discipuli eius' of Jonas of Bobbio, demonstrating that both texts could have had the same author, or at least that Jonas was familiar with the epitaph when writing the Vita Columbani – whose composition can be dated between 639 and 642 (Vilella after Trout 2021). |
| Antonio Enrico Felle, 11/11/2003 |
| Last update by Antonello Vilella on 03/05/2021 |