Date:
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:47:13 -0500
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Nick Eichler wrote:
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> Why is the epitaph on Olivia's tombstone in German?
Biographers including Paine and Clara are silent here. Only Resa Willis,
in _Mark and Livy: the Love Story..._, 1992, p. 279, states "Clemens had
engraved on Livy's headstone from the German language they so prized,
"Gott sei dir gnadig, O meine Wonne!' She could have translated it, 'God be
gracious, Oh, my Bliss!'"
thanks, larry marshburne
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