Re: Conflicting latin translations

On Apr 8, 5:10=A0am, Alastor <ross...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi Gilz
> I briefly trolled some Google pages looking for Angele in***be mihi!
> but couldn't find anything. However, it looks like the kind of
> inscription you would find on a tomb that features an angel, because
> in that case in***be has a literal sense of leaning on the departed
> one as well as a figurative meaning of leaning or inclining towards
> the departed (i.e.taking the side of the departed). I suppose it could
> also be used in the sense that 'mihi' is the mourner and 'angele' is
> an invocation of the departed one. My profoundest sympathies in your
> loss. When you are up to a bit of humour - and that's what keeps us
> sane in times of loss - you might look at some of these funny epitaphs
> in the link below. Many of these epitaphs were well intentioned but
> didn't come across the right way (which is a cautionary tale to all of
> us: be very, very sure of the epitaph you choose since it will be
> around a long time!)http://www.webpanda.com/ponder/epitaphs.htm

Thanks Alastor,

I'm pretty sure no offense was meant by the other translation, i think
it just highlighted that what you say in english can be interpreted
many different ways in another language, such as latin :-D

Gillian