Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · Nov 18 "cantiori hic iacit venedotis cive fuit [c]onsobrino ma[g]li magistrati" ('Cantiori here lies, of Gwynedd a citizen he was, a cousin of Maglus the magistrate') Still fascinated by the 6th-cent. Cantiorix Inscription, from sub-Roman north Wales, bearing the first mention of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.
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Word order is oddly (or maybe it’s not so odd) reminiscent of word order of emphatic modern Welsh language sentence - Cymro oedd o.
Two Celtic personal names, a Celtic region, two Latin titles left by the Romans, and a Christian formula ("hic iacit") – a snapshot in nine words of Wales immediately after the official rule of Rome.