Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged defines “traduce” as follows:

Main Entry: tra·duce
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-s
Etymology: Latin traducere to lead across, transfer, degrade, from tra-, trans- trans- + ducere to lead -- more at TOW

1 a obsolete : to turn from one language or form into another b : to debase or pervert by translating
2 a : to lower or disgrace the reputation of : expose to shame or blame by utterance of falsehood or misrepresentation <feels that his country is being traduced and its war effort sneered at -- Richard Watts> b : to make mock of : VIOLATE, BETRAY <is traducing our American principle of law that a man is presumed innocent until proven guilty -- Agnes Meyer>
synonym see MALIGN

I mean just what it says, and used to say, as against the original: traditore traduttore.

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Traducere means trading one position or post to another, such as traversing a bridge, a river or anything when one, or thing leaves a space in order to occupy, yet another space. It also means translating, from one form or language to another, the commonality becomes the itinarary of the conection of point A to point B, thus derives the prefix TRADE.
As for the quote" HIC LOCUS EST UBI MORS GUADET SUCCURRERE VITAE" means in French " ICI REPOSE LE CORPS POUR SECURER UNE MEILLEURE VIE,"or in plain English " HERE LIES A BODY IN GUIDANCE OF INPROVED LIVING." OR " A STUDIED AT REST BODY, CREATES GREAT LIVING MINDS,"

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Les plus fameux amphitéâtres de dissection, sont décorés d’inscriptions qui peignent au naturel ses travaux dont on s’y occupe, & le but utile qui en résulte. Nous nous contenterons de rapporter celle de l’amphitéâtre de Toulouse, & celle de celui de Paris. On lit à Toulouse:
Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae.
    Ici est le lieu où, la mort se plaît à secourir la vie.
    On lit dans l’amphitéâtre des Ecoles de Chirurgie, à Paris, l’inscription suivante, qui est encore plus belle ; elle est de Santeuil ; c’est tout dire.
Ad cædes hominum prisca amphiteatra patebant :
    Ut discant longùm vivere nostra patent.
Voici deux traductions de cette inscription, l’une plus allongée, & l’autre plus serrée.
Dans ses Cirques ouverts l’antiquité barbare
Enseignoit au mortel l’art d’abréger ses jours :
Ici par un secret & plus doux & plus rare
On apprend le moyen d’en prolonger le cours,
                                OU
Le Cirque offroit dans Rome un champ libre au carnage :
Le nôtre enseigne à l’homme à prolonger son âge.

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