i made you a brutus sandwich

And to Hogarth, who offered his perspective (from Letters to T. E. Lawrence):

He was, in fact, wrong about it not having been published before. Dussaud and Macler had published a “squeeze” (apograph) and transcription as early as 1903, in their «Mission dans les régions désertiques de la Syrie moyenne»:

Here’s my approximate translation:

Latin:

To Jove, the invincible Sun,

for the welfare and victories

of the two emperors and the two caesars

of the Jovians and

Herculians.

Greek:

At dawn/Towards the East, (O) Phoebus, I beseech thee,

upon this sacred altar, which I [verb of uncertain meaning, possibly lapicidal error, dialectal variant or hapax legomenon],

being your supplicant, I, Heraclius, protector

[–––] of the caesars

became mighty [–––] O glorious one

im seeing people fact-check this in the notes so i'll add that the full inscription is "marcosior maternia" and if you search that in google scholar you'll find lots of sources. it might not be true but it's definitely real, by which i mean that scholars don't know for sure what "marcosior maternia" means but this is a common interpretation. it's written on a spindle whorl (little weights that are used in spinning) and there's actually a lot of spindle whorls from roman gaul that have sort of amatory inscriptions on them, so they might have been gifts for lovers but it's not clear, but anyway a sexual meaning is perfectly expected for this type of object, and maternia looks like a woman's name in either the nominative or instrumental case, and marcosior looks like a passive verb related to the word for 'horse' in a desiderative or future form. so "i want to be ridden by maternia", "i will be ridden by maternia", and "maternia will be ridden" are some of the plausible interpretations.