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OVER the grim stone archway was carved the words: PARCERE SUBJECTIS.
In cold weather, and employing the argot of his companions Johnny Gray translated this as "Parky Subjects"--it certainly had no significance as "Spare the Vanquished" for he had been neither vanquished nor spared.