4/27: amazing inscription

I try to start my beginning Latin class every day with a piece of "real" Latin, and here's what I found today for tomorrow's class. It's an epitaph for a woman, and it kind of blows me away:

Cinis sum, cinis terra est, terra dea est; ergo ego mortua non sum.

"I am ash, ash is earth, earth is a goddess; therefore I am not dead."

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