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The latter, along with STTL, had replaced in about the mid-first century CE, the older model, common during the first century BCE and first century CE, of ending the inscription with Hic situs est or Hic sita est ("he or she lies here"; abbreviated to HSE), and the name of the dead person. [17] [n 2]
Cap. de seq. – Capitulum de Sequenti ("Little chapter of the following feast" — Breviary) ... Hic situs est. H.V. – Haec urbs, Hic vivit, Honeste vixit ...
Hic situs est. Which translates as: Rufus Sita, horseman of the Sixth Cohort of Thracians, lived forty years and served twenty-two. His heirs, in accordance to his will, had this erected. He is laid here. [2] The tombstone has been in the Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery since 1873.
Billy Mitchell Airport, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States, IATA and FAA LID code HSE; High Specification Equipment, a trim level for Range Rover; Home Sports Entertainment, a cable sports TV channel that was the forerunner of Fox Sports Southwest; H.S.E (latin), abbreviation of "Hic Situs Est" (Here is placed)
Pliny the Younger, his neighbor and ward, has recorded the lines which Verginius had ordered to be engraved upon his tomb: Hic situs est Rufus, pulso qui Vindice quondam Imperium asseruit non sibi sed patriae ("Here lies Rufus, who after defeating Vindex, did not take power, but gave it to the fatherland").
Equivalent to hic sepultus (here is buried), and sometimes combined into hic jacet sepultus (HJS), "here lies buried". hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae: This is the place where death delights in helping life: A motto of many morgues or wards of anatomical pathology. hic manebimus optime: here we will remain most excellently
The full Latin titles of all existing (Latin) dioceses may be seen in the Roman annual, "Gerarchia Cattolica", a complete list of the Latin names of all known dioceses (extant or extinct) is found in the large folio work of the Comte de Mas Latrie, "Trésor de chronologie, d'histoire et de géographie" (Paris, 1884).
The text Hic Sunt Dracones on the Hunt–Lenox Globe, dating from 1504 "Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.