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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