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- From: GRAHAM@HARVARDA.BITNET (Graham Wolff Christian)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c18-l
- Subject: Re: latin and the 'net
- Message-ID: <C18-L%93012611495726@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:40:52 GMT
- Sender: 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion <C18-L@PSUVM.BITNET>
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- 26 Jan 1993 11:22:12 EDT from <LDP100F@ODUVM.CC.ODU.EDU>
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- If you already know that H.S.E. stands for "hic sepulta est," I think it highly
- unlikely that D.O.M.S. stands for "Dominus..." anything. "Here lies [noun of
- feminine gender]..." I will ponder further, but it seems to me that D. must
- stand for Deo and S. for sacra, so that the whole will read, "Here lies one
- woman? noun of feminine gender, i.e. poeta?]" sacred to God..." What O. and M.
- represent is another question, though the same logic tells me that they must
- stand for a noun w/ adjective or other descriptive phrase relevant either to
- Deo or the one sepulta.
-