Sapcote Motto

Taking for granted that solutions of the "Sapcote Motto" are scarce, I send you what seems to me something nearer the truth than the arbitrary and unsatisfactory translation of T.C. (Vol. i, p. 476.). The motto stands thus:— "sco toot × vinic [or umic] × poncs." Adopting T.C.'s suggestion that the initial and final *s* are mere flourishes (though that makes little difference), and also his supposition that *c* may have been used for *s*, and as I fancy, not unreasonably conjecturing that the × is intended for *dis*, which is something like the pronunciation of the numeral X, we may then take t…