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Anthropology / Grave stone inscription | | Latin term or phrase: munera quæ tacite que sine teste dedit | | Ninth line of a grave stone inscription |
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| | gifts which she gave silently, without a witness | Explanation:
I thought of the enclitic too, but then the words that would join would be "quae" and "tacite", which doen's make any sense. Therefore I suppose that there is a missing "a" in "que".
So the idea is "gifts which she gave silently, which she gave without...", and I leave out the second "which" for a style sake.
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3 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 the gifts which she gave quietly and without a witness
Explanation:
I'm assuming 'que' is the enclitic -que (i.e. attached to the end of the previous word, in this case 'taciteque') meaning 'and'. If this is not correct then my translation is way off...
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4 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 gifts which she gave silently, without a witness
Explanation:
I thought of the enclitic too, but then the words that would join would be "quae" and "tacite", which doen's make any sense. Therefore I suppose that there is a missing "a" in "que".
So the idea is "gifts which she gave silently, which she gave without...", and I leave out the second "which" for a style sake.
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