[Bell Historians] Latin translations

John Camp camp at ...
Wed Aug 17 14:41:17 BST 2005


At 14:40 on 17 August 2005, John Thorp wrote:
> Seems a good and plausible bit of textual analysis to me, John.
> Before we debate how 'debased' the Latin is, maybe George can tell
> us the context / date of the quotation and in particular how certain
> he is that his transcription is accurate (since, eg, the 'velut'
> seems to have been mis-transcribed).
> John.

I'd have thought that, given that chunk from the Vulgate, there's not
too much doubt about what the inscription is supposed to be, even if
the inscriber has got the odd letter wrong.

John Camp


 


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