The image is of Admiralty Arch in London. The inscription
reads:
ANNO : DECIMO : EDWARDI : SEPTIMI : REGIS
VICTORIAE : REGINAE : CIVES GRATISSIMI : MDCCCCX :
Admiralty Arch was built in 1910.
M (1000) + D (500) + CCCC (400) + X (10)
It was built for Queen Victoria: VICTORIAE :
REGINAE [dative case]
ANNO : DECIMO [ablative] : EDWARDI :
SEPTIMI : REGIS [genitive]
- In which year ¦ of which monarch’s (rēgis) reign was it built?
The last part: CIVES GRATISSIMI
You've seen the word grātus before, meaning 'pleasing'. Here, it has another meaning of "grateful; thankful"; add -issimus and you have the way in which Latin expresses "most": CIVES GRATISSIMI i.e. (from) the most / very grateful citizens.
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