Title II., section i, of the Divino Afflatu gives the characters of preferential rank which are to be considered in occurrence, concurrence or translation of feasts, Ritus altior, ratio primarii aut secundarii, Dignitas Personalis, solemnitas externa.

" [Footnote 4: Other names of this kind were Deogratias, Habetdeum, and Adeodatus.] Here is an inscription set up by a husband to his wife, Dignitas, who was a woman of great goodness and entire purity of life: QUE SINE LESIONE ANIMI MEI VIXI MECVM ANNOS XV FILIOS

He keeps in for state, ne majestatis dignitas evilescat, as our China kings, of Borneo, and Tartarian Chams, those aurea mancipia, are said to do, seldom or never seen abroad, ut major sit hominum erga se observantia, which the [3704]Persian kings so precisely observed of old.

Quid est dignitas indigno nisi circulus aureus in naribus suis.

He is arguing on the word dignus, from which dignitas is derived.