SHAKESPEARE’S FUNERARY MONUMENT: Torturing the Plaintext

 

 

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   Written on a placque beneath the monument carving of a bust of Shakespeare is the above inscription.  The first two lines are written in Latin, and translate to the English:  “A Pylian in judgement, a Socrates in genius, a Maro in art.  The earth buries him, the people mourn him, Olympus posses him.”

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