Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Puzzling Epitaph

By E.B. PRICE.

J. BDN has, I think, not given this epitaph quite correctly. The following is as it appeared in the *Times*, 20th Sept., 1828 (copied from the *Mirror*). It is stated to be in a churchyard in Germany:— "O quid tua te be bis bia abit ra ra ra es et in ram ram ram i i Mox eris quod ego nunc." The reading is— "O superbe quid superbis? tua superbia te superabit. Terra es et in terram ibis. Mox eris quod ego nunc." [The first two lines of this epitaph, and many similar specimens of learned trifling, will be found in *Les Bigarrures et Touches de Seigneur des Accords,* cap. iii., *autre Façons de Re…

Topics: Epitaphs, Historical Customs

Locations: Germany