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Tue 4 Feb, 2003 02:14 am
One my friend collect old paintings and other antique. Recently she has discovered such text on a painting: "EVROE BACC" or "EVHOE BACC". Has anyone an idea what it can mean?
Many thanks.
words on painting
It's not much but to me it sounds like a persons name. I would guess one from the nations that go from Poland to the Greek border. I would guess it was Czech.
I'm not certain that it's a Latin phrase.
>Could the painting have something to do with Bacchus?
Yes, really it has. There is a group of Romans drinking in a room. This text is written on the floor in so way that it's left and right fragments are cut by the borders of the painting. So "Evhoe Bacchant" (glory to Bachus? - I guess) is a very suitable answer.
"Eat, drink and be merry"!
"Evoe" was the cry of jubilation at a Bacchanalia.
I'm part polish and I speak Polish, but it sound like Russian/Czech, or maybe from the Balkans to me
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