Mar. 1. 1851.] 



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and which has been sot to a beautiful plaintive air, 

 by Dr. Harington of Bath : 



" O Domine Deus, speravi in te ! 

 O care mi Jesu, nunc libera me I 

 In duri catena, in misera poena desidero te I 

 Languendo, gemendo. et genuflectendo, 

 Adoro, iniploro, ut liberes me ! " 

 It may be thus paraphrased : 

 " In this last solemn and tremendous hour, 

 My Lord, my Saviour, I invoke Thy power ! 

 In those sad pangs of anguisli and of death, 

 Receive, O Lord, Thy suppliant's parting breath ! 

 Before Thy hallowed cross she prostrate lies, 

 O hear her prayers, commiserate her sighs ! 

 Extend thy arms of mercy and of love. 

 And bear her to thy peaceful realms above." 



Aneciioten of some Distinguished Persons, 

 8vo. London, 179.5, vol. i. p. 154. 



H.E. 



Tandem D. O M. (Vol. iii., p. 62.) — I would 

 suggest that this inscription might be resolved 

 into 



" Tandem Deus Otia Misit," 



a thanksgiving for the fulfilment of some oft- 

 made prayer or long-cherished hope ; the idea — 

 if I am right in niy conjecture — having proba- 

 bly been taken from the 6th line of Virgil's 1st 

 Eclogue — 



" O Melibaee ! deus nobis h^c otia fecit." 



Any accounts that remain of the great Cartha- 

 ginian Captain's Cornish namesake, may perhaps 

 tend to sliow that he had |)referred the "otium 

 cum dignirate" of literary leisure to the turmoil of 

 the battle of life, and to the use of the haruesn, 

 whether civil or military, that it had forced him 

 to wear. C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



[J. V. S. suggests, " May it not in its complete 

 state be ' Tandem Deo Optimo et Maximo,' and its 

 translation, ' When all is dune, let piaise be to God 

 most mighty and most beneficent?'" and X. Z. says, 

 "Possibly, 'Tandem desiderate opere mactus' — not, 

 I think, a very choice specimen of Latinity, but perhaps 

 good enough for a fly-leaf.' ] 



Tandem D. O. M. (Vol. iii., p. 62.). — Is not 

 D. O. M. the connnon abbreviation fur " Deo 

 Optimo M:iximo ?" and so tiie whole phrase an 

 acknowledgment by the painful (and probably 

 pious) collector of the most interi-sting litjraiy 

 referred to, of liis tlianks to God on having " at 

 length" obtained possession of some long-coveted 

 folio, or vainly-sougiit-for edition? J. Eastwood. 



Eccles field. 



D. O. M. — I am emboldened by the Query re- 

 specting '• Tandem D. O. M. (Vol. iii., p. 62.) to 

 a-sk, wliat is the solution of D. O. AI. 't On the 

 head of a tombstone, tiie inscription is frequent on 

 the continent I am aware that it is interi)reted 



" Deo Optimo Maximo " when occurring in the 

 dedication of a church ; but it appears on a tomb 

 to supply the place of our M.S., or the D. M. of the 

 Romans. Can any of your readers give me the 

 true meaning ? It must be well known, I should 

 think, to all who have studied inscriptions. As I 

 am indebted to Faber Mariims for an excuse for 

 putting this Query, it is only courteous to suggest 

 a solution to his D. O. M. — may it be " Datus 

 omnino Musis ? " aw. 



iMt^rcnaiirnuS. 



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