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 ii. OCT. s, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 100U.

CONTENTS.-No. 41.

WOTBS King's 'Classical and Foreign Quotations 'The Thinking Horse. 281 High Peak Words, 282 Jane Clair- mont's Grave-Painting on Glass, 284-Historic Cumber- land Oak Thomas Beach, the Portrait Painter Calvin's

Institutes ' 1536 FitzGerald's Song in Tennyson's

Memoir' Junius, 285 Link with the Past Sir Mdwin Arnold Prehistoric Crocodile Hawker of Morwen-

OUBRIES O'Neill Seal Morris Dancers' Plantation- Nelson Anthology-Sir Walter I'Bspec-Wife Day: Wife Tea "Christiana! ad leones" Foreign Book-plates, 287 School Company I Majuscule "Jesso" Denny Family Ludovico Jacobite Verses, 288 Jacob Cole Authors of Quotations Wanted-Dale Family Ardagh Tickencote Church John Tregortha Excavations at Richborough

EBPLIBS': The Tricolour, 290 Wiltshire Naturalist Prescriptions Descendants of Waldef of Cumberland, 291 Shakespeare's Grave Regiments at Boomplatz Swift's Gold Snuff-box Desecrated Fonts Greenwich Fair- Waggoner's Wells " Kavisson " : " Scri velloes " ' ' A shoulder of mutton," &c., 292" Humanum est errare " Messrs. Coutts's Removal Sporting Clergy, 293- Jane Stuart One-armed Crucifix, 294 Tom Moody Holme Pierrepont Parish Library Authors of Quotations Wanted, 295 Baron Ward "First kittoO "Cast-iron Chimney-backLondon Cemeteries, 29*5 Whitsunday- Fair Maid of Kent Phrases and Reference Closets in Edinburgh Buildings, 297" Feed the brute," 298.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Besanfs 'London in the Time of the Tudors' Mr. Baildon's Edition of 'Titus Andro- nicus ' Kenny on the Law of Tort Heinemann's " Favourite Classics "Bell's " York Library " Dickens's Christmas Books Reviews and Magazines.

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KING'S 'CLASSICAL AND FOREIGN

QUOTATIONS.'

ON pp. 387-99 of the third edition (1904) of Mr. King's ' Classical and Foreign Quota- tions ' is a list of adespota for which authors and references are desired. I beg to supply the following notes.

1. "Grsecum est, non potest legi." See Dr. Sandys's * Hist, of Class. Scholarship,' pp. 582-3 :

" Whenever in his public lectures he TAccursius of Florence, who taught at Bolopna, ob. 1260] came upon a line of Homer quoted by Justinian, tradition describes him assaying: Grcecumest, necpotest legi." See the references given in Dr. Sandys's foot- notes.

2. GRAM loquitur ; DIA verba docet ; RHET verba

colorat ; Mus canit ; AR numerat ; GEO ponderat ; AST

colit astra.

Verba after DIA should be vera. See Sandys, pp. 643-4 :

"The late Latin couplet summing up the Seven

Arts is well known to many who may not have

heard the name of its author, or rather its earliest recorder,"

who, as a foot-note informs us, is the Fran- ciscan Scotist, Nicolaus de Orbellis (Dorbel- lus), ob. 1455. 3. " Si vis amari, ama." Seneca, Ep. ix. 6.

4. "Stat crux dum volvitur orbis." See 10 th S. i. 393, where this, the motto of the Carthusians, is said to have been composed by Dom Martin, eleventh General of the Order, in 1233.

5. "Turpe mori post te solo non posse dolore." Lucan, ix. 108 (in Cornelia's lament for Pompeius).

6. " Ubi lapsus, quid feci?" I have already pointed out (9 th S. xii. 374) that this is a translation of the beginning of 1. 42 in the 'Aureum Pythagoreorum Carmen':

TrapfBf]V] rt 8' !/)ea ; ri pot Scov OVK

I may now add that in Erasmus's 4 Adagia ' (" Domesticum Thesaurum calumniari "), p. 1 14, col. 2, ed. 1629, it is translated by the Latin hexameter Lapsus ubi, quid feci, aut officii quid omissum est ?

7. " Vivit post funera virtus." The earliest date, so far as I know, to which this has been carried back is 1557 (not 1527, as printed in Mr. King's book), when Dr. Caius inscribed it on Linacre's monument in old St. Paul's. The same words, it may be remarked, are on Caius's own monument in the chapel of his college. But the phrase is to be found before this. See G. Sabinus, Eleg., i. 1, 59, " Ut tua morte carens vivat post funera virtus" (cf. 53, "Carmine laudati vivunt post funera reges "). I cannot at this moment give the precise date of the poem, but it is a dedica- tion to Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Mainz (ob. 1545).

8. "Vox, et prseterea nihil." Mr. King says, "It is probable that the quotation is merely the Latin translation of Plutarch's anecdote" (Apophthegm. Lacon. incert. xiii.). Xylander's translation of the passage is " vox tu es, et nihil prseterea." Lipsius, at the beginning of his 'Ad versus Dialpgistam Liber,' has : " Lacon quidam ad lusciniam ; vox es, prceterea nihil." This confirms Mr. King's view.

May I remark, in conclusion, that this new edition of 4 Classical and Foreign Quotations ' seems to me to be the most interesting and readable book of its kind in the English language? EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, S. Australia.

THE THINKING HORSE.

(See ante, p. 165.)

THERE is nothing new under the sun not even the thinking horse. We find these animals cropping up from time to time in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.