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Arcadia, I

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I decided to start a new blog. Hi, folks.    // Les bergers d'Arcadie by Nicolas Poussin - Arcadian shepherds find a tomb inscribed with the incomplete phrase ET IN ARCADIA EGO, " And In Arcadia I ", which evidently means either, "And it was in Arcadia that I who am buried here died", or "And even in lovely Arcadia I, Death, am present". It was long suspected that the phrase was an anagram, but no-one was able to unscramble it. I suspect personally that it was an acronym for which the words beginning in E, T, I, N, &c., have been forever lost.