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CHRONOGRAM

Volume 3 · 45 words · 1778 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 Guilielmus Adolphus in 1632:

ChrIftVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.

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