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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. i. MARCH 5,

that work she remained some time in Whitby "to study the character of the place," anc in relation to this an incident has lately come to my knowledge that may interest those readers who remember this old town forty years ago, with its confectioner's shop in the principal street on the cliff which was so popular with visitors. I find that one of the chief sources of the author's information on Whitby life and manners was Mr. Corney, the proprietor of this shop a lifelong resi- dent. In a manuscript note on the flyleaf of a copy of the book which, on its publi- cation, Mrs. Gaskell presented to him she gratefully acknowledged " the very valuable assistance" Mr. Corney had rendered to her.

JOSEPH BODGERS. 12, St. Hilda's, Whitby.

Quotes,

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

LATIN QUOTATIONS. Can any of your readers supply the source of any of the following phrases? They occur in a Latin comedy written at Cambridge about 1580.

1. Exemplis erudimur omnes aptius.

2. Nescit servire virtus.

3. Aristoteles non vidit verum in spiritualibus.

4. Sentis ut sapiens, loqueris ut vulgus (Aristotle).

5. De omni scibili.

6. Oves et boves et cetera pecora campi.

7. Contra negantem principia non est dispu-

tandum.

8. Frigent nunc-dierum prsecepta.

9. In minimum naturale dabile.

10. Defectus naturae, error naturae (applied to

woman). Cp. Milton, ' Paradise Lost,' x. 891.

11. (Midas) qui fame peribat quod auro vesci ne-

quibat.

12. Amoris te vias omnes doceo.

13. Cibus hi mihi et potus sunt.

14. Ignoratio causarum mater erroris.

15. Natura semper intendit quod est optimum

(before Roger Bacon).

16. Signa minora cape.

17. Natura vult omne grave ferri deorsum.

18. Invitat ultro te domus ipsa.

19. Me tenet ut viscus et interficit ut basiliscus.

20. flexanima flosque feminarum.

21. Laus sequitur fugientem.

22. Splendidse sunt vestes nobilitatis testes.

23. Potus gluten amicorum.

24. Comptus et calamistratus.

25. Studiis dignissima nostris.

26. Ad rem et rhombum (=to come to the point).

27. Sunt tibi tortores serpentibus horridiores.

28. Scientia non habet inimicum prseter ignorantem.

29. Favete, Musse pnesides.

30. Prius erit glacies flammiger ignis, et tenebrte

densss vaga sydera poli, prius ponderosum grave volabit in altum ut aliger, et quassabit vanos ventos levis pluma.

31. Deorum suut omnia.

32. Quis nisi mentis inops oblatum respuat aurum ?

(in Lily's ' Grammar ').

33. Tua vicit comcedia (you have won the day).

34. Ibi incipit fides, ubi desinit ratio.

35. Quod efficit tale, illud ipsum est magis tale.

36. Litera scripta manet.

37. Unam semper amo, cujus non solvor ab liamo.

38. Partus aureus.

39. Rostra disertus amat (from grammar rules?).

40. De mea fide tota patria loquitur, loquuntur

omnes boni.

41. Scalam naturae in qua inest et occultum occulti

et non occultum non occulti.

42. Vitse non pigeat cum funus anmtur ?

43. Scripsit Aristoteles Alexandro de Physicorum

libro editum esse quasi non editum.

44. Amor est punctum quoddam stultitise.

45. Nil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu.

46. Vivit post funera virtus (before 1557).

47. Strangulatorium argumentum.

48. Nee in ceteris est contrarium reperire.

49. Per modum illuminationis, feruntur per radios

rectos, primo archipodialiter, deinde vicissim reflexive.

50. Any earlier case of the reading "accede ad

ignem hanc" (Ter., 'Eun.,' i. 2, 5). Quoted also in Burton's 'Anatomy' in this form.

G. C. MOORE SMITH. University College, Sheffield.

[5. "De omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis" refers to Giovanni Pico, Count of Mirandola (1463-94), who, at Rome in 1486, offered to defend 900 theses. The eleventh of these referred to "ad omnis scibilis investigationem et intellectionem " (see Biichmann, 'Gefliigelte Worte').]

PAOLO AVITABILE. I shall be grateful for information as to any English print, carica- ture, or account of Runjeet Singh's famous _eneral Paolo Avitabile (1791-1850). He was a native of Agerola, near Amalfi, where he died on 28 March, 1850, in the Castello Avitabile. Over the porter's lodge is the inscription put by him, *' O beata solitudo, o sola, beatitude," the source of which quota- tion I am also anxious to identify. It has a ertain similarity with Giordano Bruno's " In was in London in June, 1844, and visited the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House on the 20th of that month. If any of your readers can help me to trace any notice of him in the
 * ristitia hilaris, in hilaritate tristis." Avitabile