Subject:	A site and a question
From:	SFP55@--------
Date:	Sat, 20 Mar 1999 01:16:53 EST

In a --------age dated 3/19/99 9:52:21 PM Pacific Standard Ti--------<a href="/post/novaro--------rotectID=029158245022160085015154190036129" >--------99@--------</a>
writes:

Hello, Nova Romers ,

I've just put up a small site dealing with my local monument, Porta
Maggiore at

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/5210/portmag.htm" target="_top" >http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/5210/portmag.htm</a>

An inscription that runs around the tomb of Eurysace reads:

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Est hoc monumentum Marcei Vergilei Eurysacis pistoris, redemptoris, apparet
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Anyone care to give an opinion of the exact position implied by the
"apparet"?


Thanks,


Ian
<a href="/post/novaro--------rotectID=029158245022160085015154190036129" >--------99@--------</a> (Ian Hutchesson)

Subject:	Re: A site and a question
From:	legion6@--------
Date:	Sat, 20 Mar 1999 12:12:24 -0600 (CST)

>------------------------------------------------------------
>Est hoc monumentum Marcei Vergilei Eurysacis pistoris, redemptoris,
>apparet
>------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Anyone care to give an opinion of the exact position implied by the
>"apparet"?

'Apparet' isn't part of Eurysaces' position description...it's the verb
stating that the monument was 'prepared' or 'set up'. So the whole
thing would translate as "This monument to Marcus Vergilius Eurysacis
the miller (baker?) and contractor (was) set up".

Were the commas part of the original inscription? (Most Roman
inscriptions do without punctuation, I think...)

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