Question:
big prize to unscramble this!?
troothskr
2006-10-27 13:28:58 UTC
In Nicholas Poussin's famous painting of the the two shepherds and the rock there is the inscription 'et ego in arcadia'. To win the prize, all you have to do is unscramble this anagram into a well known latin phrase or saying. Clue: it contains a warning and indicates some holy **** the templars(rosy cross folk) may have brought back from Jerusalem in 12Cent.
Nine answers:
2006-10-27 13:31:42 UTC
Et tu Brute?
shepardj2005
2006-10-27 20:50:11 UTC
In The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, under the false impression that "et in Arcadia ego" was not a proper Latin sentence, proposed that it is an anagram for I! Tego arcana Dei, which translates to "Begone! I keep God's secrets", suggesting that the tomb contains the remains of Jesus or another important Biblical figure.



Would that be what you're looking for?
tucksie
2006-10-27 20:33:24 UTC
Nicolas Poussin’s Shepherds of Arcadia is a painting at the centre of the controversy of the Priory of Sion. New evidence is able to offer a final analysis of this famous painting, which offers intriguing prospects on the worship of the dead… and the elixir of life.



The literal translation is; He is there, this is what causes the conspiricy theories.
bh8153
2006-10-28 15:26:05 UTC
Latin letter frequencies and word endings are so similar from one phrase to another that almost anything can be anagrammed to something different which is perfectly grammatical and meaningful.



I know very little Latin, and on my very first try with this I got "agito de carinae", I cause a disturbance from the ships.
2006-10-27 20:38:20 UTC
The anagram is: I Tego Arcana Dei . Translated is: Begone, I know the secrets of God.

I'd post the story behind it, but I won't since you only asked for the anagram.

I hope I'm first to get it right. I love prizes!! ;o)
Andrew J
2006-10-27 23:24:46 UTC
sorry but this painting by Poussin alludes to the contrast of life and death.you have the happy Sheppard's merry making in the glade,contrasted by the tomb in the centre.the inscription says from the grave"I also lived happily once".



thanks Andy.
marquiejo13
2006-10-27 20:37:26 UTC
Et tu Brute (you too brutis)
ciaran_m_o
2006-10-27 20:33:15 UTC
yea hes right
2006-10-27 20:38:18 UTC
What do I win?


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