"Decimo quarto Maij anno domini ts.

Howsoe're the Minutes go, Run the heures or swift or slow: Seem the Months or short or long, Passe the seasons right or wrong: All we sing that Phoebus follow, Semel in anno ridet Apollo.

Crates Pergamenus Indos, qui centenos annos excedant Gymnætas appelat, non pauci Macrobios.

On all sides the evidences of extreme drought proved the year to be the dreaded anno seco of the Mexicans.

In epitaphs, the deceased person is sometimes introduced by way of prosopopaeia, speaking to the living, of which the following is an instance, wherein the defunct wife thus addresses her surviving husband: "Immatura peri; sed tu, felicior, annos Vive tuos, conjux optime, vive meos.

"Isti libri liberati sunt canonicis die ... anno regni Regis Edwardi septimo" (7 Edw. II.

annos languit; atque ita, ut neque vino, neque consuetudine reliqua abstineret.