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hic jacet
Latin,
hic iacet
, "here lies," commonly the first words of Latin epitaphs; from demonstrative pronominal adjective of place
hic
"here" +
iacet
"it lies," from
iacere
"to lie, rest," related to
iacere
"to throw" (see
jet
(v.)).