An early Latin inscription celebrates a freedwoman who lost six children but whose virtue was rewarded with manumission.
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We all die, so have a drink while you can
Pop open a cold one and read a Roman tombstone with me.
Marywood University Rotunda
Five Latin inscriptions make the Marywood Rotunda stand out!
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Charles Harris McPhail’s mourners drew on their classical education to commemorate him.
Also a client . . . .
Thoughts provoked by my parents’ cemetery marker.
The tree is known by its fruit.
Lambert Tree hoped to be known by his fruit!
John Christopher Thomas
Some Latin consoled the parents of the luckless John Thomas.
Monumentum mortuis ignotis Terrae Mariae qui bello civili ceciderunt dedicatum
Imagines duo (1, 2) subiunxi monumenti sacri mortuis in illo bello saevo ferocique quod inter se gesserunt cives Americani annos 1861-1865. Imago 1. Monumentum mortuis ignotis Terrae Mariae qui bello civili ceciderunt dedicatum. Facies septentrionalis. Loudon Park National Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. Photo: HABS/HAER/HALS surveys (HALS MD-5). Public domain. Library of Congress. Imago 2. Monumentum mortuis …
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Gentleman and scholar
Truman Michelson monument, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC. Photo: author. TRUMAN MICHELSON, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,HARVARD Born August 11, 1879-Died July 261938, Sanskrit Scholar and Ethnologist Smiths-onian Institution 1910-1938 HIC IACET CATHARINA VXOR CARISSIMATRVMANI MICHELSON QVAE SEMPERDOMVM FELICEM FECITT.M. MORTVA EST JANVARY 23, 1953 Translation of Latin: Here lies Catharine, the very dear wifeto Truman Michelson, …
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