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Deciphering 2

Now we back to  (D1f).

  It is noteworthy that the changes of sex in second and third lines coincide with each other. From male Julius to female Juliet, and from male Brutus to feminine French word Brute which means injudiciousness. Moreover Juliet is injudicious in public estimate.

  In the right column, English “and”, French “et”, and Italian “e” appear in this order. Three conjunctions foretell us the appearance of the fourth person. The order of languages of these conjunctions coincides with the order of languages appeared in upstream of the genealogy of the Romeo story.

Running back further, we arrive at Latin, i.e. Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe”. Since the name Pyramus ends with “us”, the 4th person must be him. To see what he morphs into, it suffices to recall the ending of the lovers. Thisbe stabs herself by Pyramus’ dagger. This can be represented as follows.

Here “us” of Pyramus denotes his dagger. “Thus be Pyramis” gives the desired 4th line. Pyramis is a Latin word which means Pyramid. “Thus be Pyramis” means “Thus be & Pyramis”, i.e. in 4th line we get “is” (English be) when Pyramus morphs into Pyramis as follows.

(D2b) can be read as

This is the answer to the question “What is the complete list?” In the list we see the column consists of “o” and “us”, where three “us” form a line under the leadership of “o”. We can represent this as “o discerned us”, which is in Latin

(Here we should recall Caesar’s “Veni, vidi, vici”.) In this way we find the name Ovidius. Pyramus and Thisbe is a story in his metamorphoses. Now we find out three metamorphoses in the list, Julius→Juliet, Brutus→Brute, and Pyramus→Pyramis. In Midsummer Night’s Dream, the role of Pyramus is played by the man named Bottom. Also in our list, Pyramus is seated in the bottom.

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