DIAL MOTTO AT KARLSBAD.

The inclosed inscription was brought over for me from Karlsbad by the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal. Can any one throw light upon the capital letters? I give it copied exactly from Sir Nicholas Tindal's writing, with his observation beneath, and may safely venture to warrant his accuracy. It might be supposed to be a chronogram, but for the introduction of the letter "E."

"Motto from a Dial formed on the two Sides of the Angle of a House at Karlsbad.

"'Hora HorIs CEdIt, pereVnt sIC TeMpora nobIs,

Vt tIbI fInalIs sIt bona, VIVe benè.'

"The letters which are written in capitals were so in the original inscription, and were coloured red: probably the anagram of some one's name is concealed under them."

Having been a collector of existing dial mottoes for many years, I shall feel greatly obliged to any of your correspondents who will inform me of remarkable ones in their own neighborhood.

There are four—one in English, one in Latin, one in Greek, and one in Hebrew—on the keep of Carlisle Castle; but though I possess the three former, I have not the last, and should be very glad to obtain it, if possible.

There is a motto at Bonneville in Switzerland, as I have been told:

"Soli Soli Soli."

What can be the interpretation thereof?

Of course I am acquainted with Leadbetter's Art of Dialling, and the curious list of mottoes he gives, together with the still more curious translations of the same; as e.g.

"Aut Cæsar, aut nullus."

(I shine, or shroud!)

Or—

"Sic transit gloria mundi:"

(So marches the god of day!!)

But what I want is, mottoes from dials actually in existence.

HERMES.