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Tu Autem

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Come to the last clause. In the long Latin grace at St. John’s College, Cambridge, the last clause used to be “Tu autem misereʹre mei, Domine. Amen.” It was not unusual, when a scholar read slowly, for the senior Fellow to whisper “Tu autem”—i.e. Skip all the rest and give us only the last sentence.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Trundle
Truss his Points (To)
Trusts
Truth
Truth in a Well
Tryanon
Trygon
Tsin Dynasty
Tsong Dynasty
Tu Autem
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Tu Queque
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