DOOR-HEAD INSCRIPTIONS.

(Vol. vii., pp. 23. 190. 585.)

A few years ago I copied the following inscription from over the door of

the residence of a parish priest at Cologne:

"Protege Deus parochiam hanc propter

Te et S.S. tuum, sicut protexisti

Jerusalem propter Te et David servum

tuum. IV Reg. xx. 6.

A.D. 1787."

From the gateway leading into the Villa Borghese, just outside of the

"Porta del Popolo," at Rome, I copied the following:

"Villae Burghesiae Pincianae

Custos haec edico.

Quisquis es, si liber

legum compedes ne hic timeas.

Ite quo voles, carpite quae voles,

Abite quando voles.

Exteris magis haec parantur

quam hero.

In aureo saeculo ubi cuncta aurea

temporum securitas fecit

bene morato:

Hospiti ferreas leges praefigere

herus velat.

Sit hic pro amico, pro lege

honesta voluntas.

Verum si quis dolo malo, lubens, sciens

aureas urbanitatis leges fregerit,

Caveat ne sibi

Tesseram amicitiae subiratus villicus

advorsum frangat."

On the entrance into the Villa Medici are the two following:

"Aditurus hortos hospes, in

summo ut vides

colle hortulorum consitos,

si forte quid

audes probare, scire debes

hos hero

herique amicis esse apertos

omnibus."

"Ingressurus hospes hosce quos

ingentibus

instruxit hortos sumptibus

suis Medices

Fernandus expleare visendo

licet:

atque his fruendo plura

Velle nondecet."

The following I copied from a gateway leading into a vineyard near the

church of San Eusebio, at Rome:

"Tria sunt mirabilia;

Trinus et unus,

Deus et homo,

Virgo et mater."

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