Questioni di autenticità di iscrizioni metriche (o affettive)

This study mainly focuses on the following issues: 1. two elegiac couplets (CIL VI 30116 /CLE 1474 and CIL IX 2425 / CLE 1479), probably taken out of their epigraphic context, and perhaps interpolated according to an ideal pattern ‒ 2. the connection between CIL VI 930*a and b dedicated to the same person, with the second considered groundlessly a fake forged on the first, as containing a similar (not the same) text of entreaty ‒ 3. the most famous but very questionable (lost) epigram for Claudia CIL VI 15346 / CLE 52, first transcribed in the late 15th century without indicating place and defining shape or lay-out, then found in numberless handwritten or printed collections of inscriptions or anthologies of poems, often together with plainly literary poems or forged (humanistic) inscriptions ‒ 4. proverbial verse sentences inserted in sepulchral inscriptions such as CIL VI 15258 / CLE 1499 ‒ 5. the instance of CIL VI 1454* / CLE 400, as a lost verse epitaph plausibly genuine (i.e. ancient), but spurious in Henzen's opinion, by only reason of its first evidence in the great handwritten epigraphic collection of the most famous forger Pirro Ligorio. ‒ Moreover, glancing over epigraphic or epigrammatic collections till the middle 18th century, one can meet some alleged epigraphic poems, whose knowledge had been quite lost: indeed, they disappeared from later, both epigraphic and epigrammatic, collections (CIL, CLE, and the like) we use today again.