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I'm trying to translate a sentence into Latin for a role-playing game friends and I are going to do. The sentence is:

"In the beginning, there were only Two."

By doing some lurking around the Vulgate and by Googling parts of my translation as I built it, I was able to come to this translation:

"In principio erant solum duo."

Is that correct? Does the comma following "beginning" have to remain after "principio" after the translation? And should the "Two" remain capitalized in the Latin translation, or does in revert to lowercase?

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[+3] - George - 05/05/2014Not bad at all. The only correction I would make is to use [color=#0000FF]tantum[/color] instead of [color=#0000FF]solum[/color]. [color=#0000FF]Solum[/color] is not used with numerals. As for...

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@Aubert23,

Not bad at all.
The only correction I would make is to use tantum instead of solum.
Solum is not used with numerals.

As for the use of capitals, that is pretty much up to you.
If you've been reading the Vulgate, you'll have noticed that words
associated with God are usually capitalized (e.g. Verbum).

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