24-10-2018, 11:25 PM
The reason I asked on the other thread if there were any famous gates that were rebuilt many times is because the rest of the line could potentially be read as
multos rececere portas = multos rezecere portas = many-times rebuilt door/gates
or maybe multos rejicere portas = many-times push back/fling open the door/gates or many-times carried back (depending on language)
portas is found in many languages, so it could mean door, gates, or the verb carry... if it's a mixture of Latin and some other Romance language then it complicates it even more... it could be interpreted in half a dozen ways.
It's hard to know how much to trust (or mistrust) the grammar... The grammar is off in the phrase "so nim gas/gaf mich", so the grammar may also be strange (or completely incorrect or absent) in line two.
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It might not even be "multos". I frequently see "niltos" in Latin manuscripts and the way it's written, with the extra minim that is attached to the plus sign, it actually looks like "iniltos" which would only make sense if it were something abbreviated.
multos rececere portas = multos rezecere portas = many-times rebuilt door/gates
or maybe multos rejicere portas = many-times push back/fling open the door/gates or many-times carried back (depending on language)
portas is found in many languages, so it could mean door, gates, or the verb carry... if it's a mixture of Latin and some other Romance language then it complicates it even more... it could be interpreted in half a dozen ways.
It's hard to know how much to trust (or mistrust) the grammar... The grammar is off in the phrase "so nim gas/gaf mich", so the grammar may also be strange (or completely incorrect or absent) in line two.
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It might not even be "multos". I frequently see "niltos" in Latin manuscripts and the way it's written, with the extra minim that is attached to the plus sign, it actually looks like "iniltos" which would only make sense if it were something abbreviated.