Help with Translating Obelisk in Piazza del Popolo
I'm going to Rome in a few days, and will need to be able to translate this:
IMP · CAESAR · DIVI · F
AVGVSTVS
PONTIFEX · MAXIMVS
IMP · XII · COS · XI · TRIB · POT · XIV
AEGVPTO · IN · POTESTATEM
POPVLI · ROMANI · REDACTA
SOLI · DONUM · DEDIT
IMP[erator] · CAESAR · DIVI · F[ilius]
AVGVSTVS
PONTIFEX · MAXIMVS
IMP[erator?] · XII · CO[n]S[ul] · XI · TRIB[unicia] · POT[estas] · XIV
AEGVPTO · IN · POTESTATEM
POPVLI · ROMANI · REDACTA
SOLI · DONUM · DEDIT
Imperator Augustus Caesar,
son of the god [Caesar], Pontifex Maximus for the 11th time,
the Egyptians having been subjected to the Roman People,
entitled to represent the people* for the 14th time,
gave this gift to the Son.
*“Tribunicia Potestas” : offered all powers without holding office; right or legitimacy to authority
Do I have the abbreviations right? Close? The order of the clauses in my translation isn't ideal, but I'd like to get it as close to literal and line for line before I make a more "englishly" translation.
Posted Apr 29, 2012, 2:08 PM UTC · edited
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nice try, one of my students doing the monuments assignment.
Yeah, I'm not in middle school. Though I would consider myself quite precocious if I started posting on reddit when I was 9. (I've been here for 3 years, check my profile. :-) )