“La vie est comme l’hombre,

Insensible en son cours.

On la croit immobile:

Elle s’avance toujours.”

More cheerful mottoes are found from Horace, as: Carpe diem. Horas non numero nisi serenas (at Venice), &c.

(Consult Mrs. Alfred Gatty, “Book of Sundials.”)

Super-altar, Chr. A small portable altar.

Superaria. (See Ependytes.)

Supercilium, R. (lit. eye-brow). (See Limen Superius.)

Superindum. (See Ependytes.)