Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs

by Horatio Edward Norfolk

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O! Superbe! Mors Super--te!
Cur Superbis?
Deus Supernos! negat Superbis
Vitam Supernam.

On the Duke of Burgundy’s tomb in St. George’s Church, near Condé:—

“Carolus hoc busto Burgundæ gloria gentis,
Conditur, Europæ qui fuit ante timor.”

Near the left wall in the Protestant-ground at Rome is a monument to Lord Barrington, and a tombstone to the infant child of Mr. William Lambton:—

Go thou, white in thy soul, and fill a throne
Of innocence and purity in heaven!

Silo Princeps Fecit.

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At the entrance of the Church of St. Salvador in the city of Oviedo, in Spain, is a most remarkable tomb, erected by a prince named Silo, with this very curious Latin inscription which may be read 270 ways by beginning with the capital letter S in the centre.

On a tombstone in the churchyard at Hochheim, a village where one of the best species of Rhenish is produced, and from the name of which our generic Hock is derived:—