[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
> I recently came across a photograph of a sundial, made in black
> granite - and which had the following Latin inscription, on it:
>
>              TE IMMOBILEM MOBILIS ILLUMINET SOL
>
> Can any of the "classical scholars" on this mailing-list please
> tell me what the English 'translation' of that inscription is ?
>
>   

*mobile* (alive) *sun enlighten* (give life to) *the motionless* (gnomon).

Giovanni Bellina
36° 55' N
14° 44° E

 
 
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