Having been a collector of existing dial mottoes for many years, I shall feel greatly obliged to any of your correspondents who will inform me of remarkable ones in their own neighborhood.
There are four—one in English, one in Latin, one in Greek, and one in Hebrew—on the keep of Carlisle Castle; but though I possess the three former, I have not the last, and should be very glad to obtain it, if possible.
There is a motto at Bonneville in Switzerland, as I have been told:
"Soli Soli Soli."
What can be the interpretation thereof?
Of course I am acquainted with Leadbetter's Art of Dialling, and the curious list of mottoes he gives, together with the still more curious translations of the same; as e.g.
"Aut Cæsar, aut nullus."
(I shine, or shroud!)
Or—
"Sic transit gloria mundi:"