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Latin phrases
Category: Relationships and Society Asked by: warurmonk-ga List Price: $15.00 |
Posted:
25 May 2004 10:43 PDT
Expires: 24 Jun 2004 10:43 PDT Question ID: 351743 |
What two phrases in Latin contain the same letters rearranged to translate as: "Flee for I know the secrets of God" and "And I am free in the country". I have seen these and was told that they were mottos of the Merovingians; however, I have not found them and doubt the veracity of the speakers claim to lineage. |
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Re: Latin phrases
Answered By: juggler-ga on 25 May 2004 11:34 PDT Rated: |
Hello. The two Latin phrases that you're thinking of are: I tego Arcana Dei Et in Arcadia Ego source: 'Better yet, an alternative interpretation is that the words "Et in Arcadia Ego" are an anagram, and with a transposition and rearrangement of the letters, becomes "I Tego Arcana Dei." This is a Latin statement and can be translated as, "Begone! I conceal the Secrets of God!" ' http://www.halexandria.org/dward217.htm 'Et in Arcadia ego... is supposedly the official motto of the Priory of Sion. Et in Arcadia ego is a Latin phrase, that most famously appears as the title of a 17th century classical painting by French painter Nicolas Poussin, which literally means, "And I in Arcadia." However, the addition of three dashes is suggestive of the missing word Sum in order for the phrase to be grammatically meaningful: "And I am in Arcadia." Futhermore, it has been theorized by Richard Andrews and Paul Schellenberger that the completed phrase Et in Arcadia ego sum is an anagram for Arcam Dei Tango which means "I touch the tomb of God."' source: World History - Priory of Sion http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/P/Priory-of-Sion.htm ------- search strategy: "i know the secrets of god" "tego Arcana Dei" anagram |
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Right on the money and swift. |
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Re: Latin phrases
From: apteryx-ga on 25 May 2004 23:17 PDT |
"Et in Arcadia ego sum" doesn't anagram to "Arcam Dei Tango," which is shorter and has no s or u. Apteryx |
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Re: Latin phrases
From: juggler-ga on 26 May 2004 20:08 PDT |
Well spotted, Apteryx. Other web sites refer to: "Et in Arcadia ego sum" & "Arcam Dei Tango, Iesu" ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22+Arcam+Dei+Tango%22+sum&btnG=Google+Search |
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Re: Latin phrases
From: hsapien138-ga on 08 Jun 2004 01:04 PDT |
excellent! |
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