The Sanscrit must be read with a French pronunciation, being from Balbi's Atlas Ethnographique; the Hungarian Gypsy as German, and the last as Spanish; the two latter are from Borrow's Zuicali, vol. ii. p. 118.
T. J. BUCKTON.
Lichfield.
Queries.
DIAL MOTTO AT KARLSBAD.
The inclosed inscription was brought over for me from Karlsbad by the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal. Can any one throw light upon the capital letters? I give it copied exactly from Sir Nicholas Tindal's writing, with his observation beneath, and may safely venture to warrant his accuracy. It might be supposed to be a chronogram, but for the introduction of the letter "E."
"Motto from a Dial formed on the two Sides of the Angle of a House at Karlsbad.
"'Hora HorIs CEdIt, pereVnt sIC TeMpora nobIs,
Vt tIbI fInalIs sIt bona, VIVe benè.'
"The letters which are written in capitals were so in the original inscription, and were coloured red: probably the anagram of some one's name is concealed under them."