At 01:09 AM 16/9/95 MST, F. Alfredo Rego wrote:
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>--------->>>           Subi dura a rudibus.       <<<----------
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>Good luck with this one!
>
 
My guess is:
 
        "Subject oneself to difficult things by the ignorant
        [rude/clumsy/unskilled]!".
 
Alternatively
 
        "Submit to the difficult by the ignorant".
 
As with anything latin, it is open to a multiplicity of meanings, depending
one the period (Golden/Silver/Vulgar/Medieval), the source (transcriptions,
graffiti, inscription) and context. :)  If ,for example,  you substitute
"sibi" for "subi", while it would not longer be a plindrome it could become
 
        "Make it hard for themselves by those ignorant"
 
In either case, there's a lot to be said for its application within HP.  How
do you sell a computer system when there's no-one left in the selling
organization that knows what it is?
 
Thanks for the Sunday morning brain warmer.
 
PS.  Interestingly, the verb /subire/ also can mean to enter, or approach or
even attack!  So it could also mean
 
        "Attack the difficult by the unskilled".
 
PSS. Rudis is also a noun meaning short wooden training swords used by
gladiators, and also a symbol of a gladiators discharge (completion) from
service.
        "Make themselves hard from training swords". %)
 
Which certainly would beg the question of what they were doing?
 
Cheers.
 
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