ASINORUM SEPULTURA

To discover the origin of this phrase, your correspondent (Vol. ii., p. 8-9.) need not go further than to his Bible. "Sepultura asini sepelietur, putrefactus et projectus extra portas Jerusalem."—*Jerem.* xxii. 19.: cf. xxxvi. 30. With regard to the extract given by Ducange, at the word "Imblocatus," from a "vetus formula Excommunicationis præclara," it is evident that the expressions,— "Sint cadavera eorum in escam volatilibus cœli, et bestiis terræ, et non sint qui sepeliant eos," have been derived from S. Jerome's Latin version from the Hebrew of Psal. lxxix. 2, 3.: "Dederunt cadavera servo…