I've seen the movie quite a long time ago. I have to say, that this movie is a great one, but I wanted to ask if anyone remembered. What was the inscription that Taplow wrote in Crocker-Harris' book?
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That is indeed the inscription. I'm actually just now playing the part of Taplow in a stage production of The Browning Version right now, so I've seen that line so many times lately. It's such a good play.
"Oh! It seems the artichoke is steamed" - Galinda
Upon seeing the film back then I took it to be a line from Aeschylus's "Agamemnon" (which it is) written by the student in tentative Greek (Hence he questions the accuracy).
The english translation is: "A god from afar looks graciously upon a gentle master".
I looked it up again recently for some other reason and then came upon this definitive explanation, replete with Greek and Latin references:
http://sauvagenoble.blogspot.com/2005/09/browning-version.html
"...God from afar looks graciously upon a gentle master"
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