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Ancient Roman Objects
- Thread starter Pacifica
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I wonder if the footprint owner ever made it to Letocetum up the road from me as the XIV were stationed there while campaigning with Gallus against the Brigantes. I suppose there's no rough date for that tile. Anyone else notice the penis print?www.facebook.com
I didn't, and still can't see it. Where is it?
A question about this: whats the grammatical rule for abbreviations respinsible for this? Specially, writing only the first three charactefs and swapping the second and third position of Ides?
I think it is just an archaic spelling —eidibus
Yeah, the caption of the Facebook post has a typo when it says EDIBVS MARTIIS. It should be EIDIBVS (and ei is a standard alternate spelling for long i that appears frequently in inscriptions and the like). In terms of how many characters of the word are written, that is just convention; usually it's the fewest possible that still give a recognizable/unambiguous meaning.