Tombstone inscription: Luctu meo vivit soror companiae...

[julia]

Hello

First : I'm sorry to only drop by on this forum for a translation request, but I did try to look it up elsewhere on the net, and requested translations in a few general forums i visit frequently, but nothing helped. So I need some "professional" help

This text is from a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar called Ana, Soror . The novel deals with, to be euphemistic, a particular relation between a brother and a sister. Eventually the brother dies, and this is what his sister makes engrave on his tomb :

LUCTU MEO VIVIT

SOROR
CAMPANIAE CAMPOS
PRO BATAVORVM CEDANS
HOC POSUIT MONVMENTVM
AETERNUM AETERNI DOLORIS
AMORISQVE


This is latin from 15th century, so i guess it makes things only more difficult. Campaniae is an italian province.

Can somebody help me out?

ps: sorry if i made some mistakes, i'm not a native english speaker.

 

[Cato]

Re: Epitaph from a novel - translation needed

LUCTU MEO VIVIT

SOROR
CAMPANIAE CAMPOS
PRO BATAVORVM CEDANS
HOC POSUIT MONVMENTVM
AETERNUM AETERNI DOLORIS
AMORISQVE

"She lives with my grief

Sister,
giving up the lands of Campaniae
on behalf of the (?) Batavians
has put up this everlasting monument
of everlasting sorrow
and love."

BATAVORVM is problematic, as it literally means "of the batavians"; there may be a word missing here.

 

[julia]

Thank you very much.
It's quite strange, but well it makes sense.