07-13-2008, 09:06 PM
Quote:And I've never heard a better or more approriate thing to say at a funeral thanSit tibi terra levis (commonly abbreviated as S.T.T.L.) was an inscription (in Latin) used on funerary items from Ancient Roman times onward. The English language translation is approximately, "May the earth rest lightly on you".
sit tibi terra levis
Mine is: Homo Homini Lupus "Man is a wolf to man." A popular Roman proverb by Plautus (dead 184 BC), in his Asinaria.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
