[Bell Historians] Latin inscription

[Jim]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Frank King <Frank.King at ...> wrote:
>
> Concerning...
> 
>     PRO PACE ET SALVTATE ELIZABETHAE CANO
> 
> John Camp would prefer salute to salutate.
> 
> So would I, but I can contrive meaning to the
> given form...
> 
> Taking salutate as coming from salus (salutation)
> we have salutate and Elizabethae both being
> vocative plural.  The plural alludes to the
> royal "we".  Together the two words mean
> "O greeted Elizabeths".
> 
> Alternatively, salutate can be taken as the
> present imperative plural of salutare so the
> two words would mean "be greeted O Elizabeths".
> 
> Someone must have checked it out?  It's a pretty
> expensive typo if it's wrong!
> 
> Frank H. King
> The University Bellringer
> Cambridge, U.K.
>
Personally I wouldn't 'bank on it'. The tenor at Wexford has the incorrect Pope's number on it!! And that is only one known error!