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optimum." See Aristotle, * De Incessu Ani- malium,' 12, 2, Atrioi/ 8' on fj

tjfJiiovpye fj.rr]Vy wcrTrcp f.py]Ta.i irporcpov, aAAa Trai/ra Trpos TO f3f\.TLcrTOv K T&V e Xopfvov. Also 2, 1, and 8, 1 ; 'De Partibus Anirnalium,' 2, 14. 3 ; 4, 10, 21 ; ' De luven- tute,' <fcc., 4, 1; 'De Caelo,' 2, 5, 3 ; 4 Pro- blemata,' 16, 10, 1.

21. " Laus sequitur fugientem." Erasmus has the same idea in his ' Adagia ' (" Ne bos quidem pereat "), p. 705, col. 1, 1. 53 (ed. 1629) :

" Nulli enim minus expetunt, aut sustinent etiam laudari, quam qui maxime promerentur ...... virtuti,

quam nolentem etiam sequitur sua gloria."

46. " Vivit post f unera virtus." MR. WAINE- WRIGHT has already referred (p. 297 of the last volume) to the previous discussion of these words in ' N. & Q.' It ought perhaps to be pointed out that at the last reference cited (8 th S. xi. 152) there was a curious mis- apprehension. The late REV. E. MARSHALL wrote :

"I cannot see why Borbonius calls this 'Dictum Tiberii Cjesaris.' His usually ascribed motto is about shearing, not flaying (Suetonius, ' Vit.,' c. xxxii. ; Dio, bk. Iviii.)."

But the successor of Augustus was not the only Roman emperor who bore the name Tiberius, and it is to the second Tiberius that Borbonius (see ' Delit. Poet. Germ.,' part i. p. 683) gives the couplet :

Excole virtutem : virtus post funera vivit, Solaque post mortem nos superesse facit.

EDWARD BENSLY. The University, Adelaide, S. Australia.

TICKLING TROUT (9 th S xii. 505 ; 10 th S. i. 154, 274, 375, 473). A learned and reverend friend informs me that in the days of his youth he often enjoyed this sport in the well-stocked streams of his native parish. This branch of the gentle craft appears also to have been practised at least as early as the thirteenth century. In 'Le Court de Baron,' a book of precedents of procedure in manorial courts, is a case of " taking fish in the lord's pond," and the culprit is made to day in his defence that he was walking by the lord's preserve and watching the fish u pur le grant desir que jeo auvi a une tenche quo jeo me mis a la rive, e de mes mains seule- ment e tut pleinement saunz autre sutilite cele tenche pris e emporte."

NATHANIEL HONE.

FlNGAL AND DlARMID (10 th S. H. 87, 152).

The legend associated with the Boar's Loch in Glenshee (Perthshire) is contained in a Gaelic poem, a translation of which, under the title ' The Death of Dermid,' is included

m * 4 An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and other Bards, who flourished in the same Age. Collected and edited by Hugh and John M'Callum. Mont- rose : Printed at the Review Newspaper Mce, for the Editors, by James Watt, Book- seller, 1816." A fuller edition of the poem ^published by Dr< J ? hn Smifch > minister of Kiiorandon, Argyleshire, about 1780. Dermid appears, under various names, in

mar i y m L fche poems by Ossia n and other bards. Ihe following may be quoted as examples: In 'Fingal,' as "Dermid of the dark-brown hair"; in 'Temora,' as "Dermid, son of Duthno"; in 'The Fingalians' Great Distress, as " the brown-haired Dearmid " m * The Banners of the Fingalians,' as "Der- mid, the son of Duvno"; in 'The Death of Dermid,' as "Diarmid" and "Dermid, the 80n A f Duivne." There is little doubt that alH-efer to the same person.

I shall be pleased to lend the querist the book mentioned above.

JOHNT. THORP, FR.S.L. 57, Regent Road, Leicester.

IRRESPONSIBLE SCRIBBLERS (10 th S. ii 86, 136, 196). Conspicuously placed at various points of that magnificent pile Mont St. Michel in Normandy are notices in French, English, German, and Italian, warn- ing visitors not to deface the walls under pain of a substantial fine. It is pleasant to be able to record that the injunction is fully respected, so far, at any rate, as could be judged from a recent visit paid by myself to that marvel of ages, still undergoing con- siderable restoration. No doubt the tendency bo scribble or carve is much checked by the system of conducted parties, over whose behaviour the guides appear to exercise a commendable vigilance.

By the way, is there not a slight error in the well-known lines as quoted by MR JAGGARD ? " Do not climb at all," I think the words should run. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

I venture to remark that it cannot be gain- said that many of the pilgrims from all parts of the world who flock to view the Tower of London inspect with compassion the inscrip- tions attributed to eminent persons who have been imprisoned therein. In the Beau- champ Tower is the oldest of all, being that of Thomas Talbot, 1462, who took part in the Wars of the Roses. There are similar inscrip- tions in the Bell Tower and in the Devereux Tower; but with the exception of the Dudley carving, the signature of Philip, Earl of Arundel, and the inscription of the Countess