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Anthropology / Grave stone inscription | | Latin term or phrase: Optima sinceræ jecit fundamina vitæ | | Tenth and penultimate line of a grave stone inscription. |
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4 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 with optimism and sincerity she laid the foundations of life
Explanation:
I am reading "sinceraque" instead of "sincerae". Abbrevations are very frecuently used in inscriptions, and this coud be one.
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You could say "optimistically and sincerely...". In Latin "optima" and "sincera" would be adjectives applied to the woman subject of the inscription.
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