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Taplow's inscription ( revisited)


Does anyone know it in Latin?? I remember Finney reading from the book and he said Taplow's conjugation was perfect...something like Patrus Paternalis??

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The inscription is in Ancient Greek : κρατοῦντα μαλθακῶς θεὸς πρόσωθεν εὐμενῶς προσδέρκεται (kratounta malthakos theos prosothen eumenos prosderketai)
Harris says to Taplow that his accents in the ancient greek are perfect (the technical word for this accent, the circumflex on the omega in eumenos, is perispomenon)

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sorry about the Greek part, I guess the Greek keyboard does not work here, but the english transliteration should help anyway

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