Brewer's: Hic Jacets

Tombstones, so called from the first two words of their inscriptions;

Here lies ... By the cold Hic Jacets of the dead.

Tennyson: Idylls of the King (Vivien).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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