RE: VMs: Latin extract

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "JH" <haleyj@xxxxxxxxxx>

> I wonder if anyone could help. I have a Latin extract that I need
> translating. It is one of two variants.
>
> 1 tercerius orior orsus
> 2 tractus orior orsus
>
> I really need to know if it can render sensible text. It is a phrase
> recovered from the VMS.

'Orior', 'orsus' and 'tractus' are words of Latin though not particularly 
common ones: tercerius is not Latin though, as John Koontz says, it might 
just be a Hispanism. Neither sequence means anything as a group of words. I 
have a degree in Latin and I would sadly have to say that if this is the 
closest approximation to Latin you can find in a whole page of Voynichese 
you are not working on the right lines. You ought to be coming up with 
common words such as 'est', 'et', 'qui' and 'non'.

Philip Neal


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