timor mortis conturbat me Phrase
Meaning:
the fear of death confounds me
Comment
Refrain originating in the response to the seventh lesson in the Office of the Dead. In the Middle Ages, this service was read each day by clerics. As a refrain, it appears also in other poems and can frequently be found inscribed on tombs.
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