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Volume 2 · 44 words · 1771 Edition

a species of false wit, consisting in this, that a certain date or epocha is expressed by numeral letters of one or more verses: such is that which makes the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus, in 1632.

ChrlfVs DVX, ergo trIVMphVs.