Re: Latin quote - help!

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 14 1997 - 10:27:18 EST


At 8:06 AM -0600 12/14/97, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>Swete quotes this on page 164 of his Revelation commentary:
>
>unum autem de capitibus quasi occisum in morem et plagam mortis eius
>curatum, Neronem dicit. constat enim dum insequeretur eum equitatus missus
>a senatu, ipsum sibi gulam succidisse. hunc ergo suscitatum Deus mittet.
>
>What does that all mean?

"But one of the heads, as if cut off in the manner and area of his death,
healed, refers to Nero. For it is agreed that while the riders sent after
him by the Senate were pursuing him, he cut his own throat. Therefore God
will revive him and send him."

At any rate, that's what the Latin appears to say.



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