Can any one give me the meaning of the last two lines? or information as to what other authors have treated on the subject of the Diaconate?
W. H.
Inscription at Persepolis.—The following curious inscription I some years ago made a note of by copying it, but neglected to mark whence I obtained it. My extract stands thus—
Arabic Inscription.
| dicas | scis | dicit | scit | audit | expedit |
| facias | potes | facit | potest | facit | credit |
| credas | audis | credit | audit | credit | fieri potest |
| expendas | habes | expendit | habet | petit | habet |
| judices | vides | judicat | videt | judicat | est |
| non | quodamque | nam qui | quodcunque | sæpe | quod non |
It is said this was found by Captain Barth, engraven on marble, among the ruins of Persepolis, and by him translated from the Arabic into Latin and English.
Query, What does it all mean?
Thomas Lawrence.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
"I do not know what the truth may be."—Will some one tell me whence the lines—