It's all Greek to me

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Chapter 2 is brief :

Percy looked incredulously at Brayfield  ' you mean you can't translate this?'

'Of course '   what does this young whipper snapper think I've been doing? 

Seeing the somewhat confused look on his assistance face Brayfield sighed ' it says , in the Greek at least,  ' greetings , to find out more open the jar,  when the jar is not a jar'.

'Well that's easy then'

'Is it old boy?'

'Well what's that?' Percy said pointing to the casket .

'A casket'

' which is what we should try to open'

' Which means you are the student and I am the master and incidentally why I shouldn't take on postgraduates from the old polies . Look at that word there - pithos-  or large jar .  Not  casket, coffin or box :  I had the same problem with Pandora and her pithos .'

'So...'

Brayfield's eyes seemed to glow ruby red as his host Re  wanted to speak I filled her Pithos, well with a different host

'  I didn't realise you had been on Earth so long'

Only 10,000  years 

' And the most memorable with moi! '  interjected Brayfield

Actually that was either Cleo or Temujin his host mused.

' Even so , we have a question : Where is the large jar?

 And another :  what and why is that casket there and not the jar ? 

'Chaps you may as well add another one'

Which is what?

'The riddle on the stone and in fact why is there a stone on Mars , written in Greek and Aramaic and as some yet unknown, presumably  Martian or extra terrestrial  language with a riddle on it in the first place?  

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