‘Stranger, stop and turn your gaze towards this hillock on your left, which holds the bones of a poor man of righteousness and mercy and love… Gaius Atilius Euhodus, freedman of Serranus, a pearl merchant of the Via Sacra is buried in this memorial. Wayfarer, good bye.’ [1235×859]

Epitaph of the pearl-seller Gaius Atilius Euhodus, alongside the Via Appia, 1st century BCE.

The whole inscription reads:
> Stranger, stop and “turn your gaze towards this hillock on your left,” which holds the bones of a poor man “of righteousness and mercy and love.” Wayfarer, I ask you to do no harm to this memorial.

> Gaius Atilius Euhodus, freedman of Serranus, a pearl-merchant of Via Sacra, is buried in this memorial. Wayfarer, good bye.

> By last will and testament: it is not permitted to convey into or bury in this memorial any one other than those freedmen to whom I have given and bestowed this right by last will and testament.