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INSCRIPTION IN THE CHURCH OF ST HILARY.

The following inscription was lately discovered when digging in the church of St Hilary, in the island of Jersey. If we except one barbarism, and one strong license, the epitaph may bear a comparison with most of the inscriptions in the Latin Anthology.

Enysea de stirpe meum Cornubia partum
Vindicat. Hillarius jam tenet ossa sacer.
Per Sporades Gallosque pium comitata maritum,
Deferor huc: visa est sors mihi nulla gravis.
Viximus unanimes, et prima prole beati;
In mundum duplici morte secunda venit.
Pignora dividimus: comitatur me morientem
Mortua; solatur filia prima patrem.

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