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 io* 8. iv. OCT. 28.1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 353 in Prose and Verse, of the late James Smith, Esq. Edited by his brother Horace Smith " (London, Colburn, 1840). Among the epi- grams,like., collected there, under the heading •Martial in London,' I find (vol. ii. p. 193) the verses given exactly as quoted by MR. TOVEY. I presume, therefore, that this must be accepted as the authoritative version, although, in my opinion, the reading given by Barham seems the better of the two. T. F. D. Byron ignorantly writes :— In short, the maxim for the amorous tribe is Horatian, " Medio tu tutissimus ibis." ' Don Juan,' canto vi. stanza 17. "Medio tutissimus ibis" does not belong to Horace. It is in Ovid's ' Metamorphoses,' book ii. 1. 137. The "tu" certainly is not there. It would spoil the Latin metre ; and it is not necessary in the English verse. I do not know whether it has been noticed that Ovid's " Fas est et ab hoste doceri" may have arisen from a line of Aristophanes :— dAA1 O.TT' f^dptav SrJTa TroXAo. jj,a.v6dvovoi.—' Birds,' 1. 376. Dryden has some lines which may have been suggested by Ovid :— Eternal Deities! Who rule the world with absolute decrees, And write whatever time shall bring to pass, With pens of adamant on plates of brass. ' Palamon and Arcite.' Dryden's original, Chaucer, seems also to have had Ovid in mind. What is fated is engraved on adamant in the poems of Ovid and Chaucer. The following are Ovid's lines: Sola insuperabile fatum Nata, movere paras ? intres licet ipsa sororum Tecta t rniin : cernes illic molimine vasto Ex aere et solido rerum tabularia ferro ; OUEB neque coneursum coeli neque fulminis iram, Nee metuunt ullas, tuta atque seterna, ruinas. Invenies illic, incisa adamante perenni, Fata tui generis. ' Metamorphoses,' book xv. 11. 807-14. Eeturhing to the question of sibilation in poetry, I may point out that the line which Dr. Johnson praised above all others for euphony has much of the sound of * in it: Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas. The way in which the * is distributed and the suitableness of the other letters in the verse make the difference between euphony and cacophon}'. But this subject has been discussed before in ' N. & Q.' E. YARDLEY. PRISONER SUCKLED BY HIS DAUGHTER (10th S. iv. 307).—A picture on this subject hangs over the fireplace in the Prince of Wales's bedroom at Hampton Court, and is numbered 644 in the recent catalogue. It is entitled 'The Roman Daughter,' and is stated to be the work of Caravaggio. On the picture, however, there is a query after the artist's name. P. D. LUCAS. The original of this picture is at Farnley Hall, near Otley, the residence of F. H. Fawkes, Esq., and is named 'The Roman'* Daughter.' G. D. L. There is a mural painting from Pompeii in the Naples Museum representing Perone saving the life of her father Cimon by this method ; it is generally known by the title of ' Greek Charity,' and has been a favourite subject among painters of different countries and ages. MATTHEW H. PEACOCK. Wakefield. This painting will be found in one of the public galleries in Holland, I think in Haarlem. P. W. A. [A. W. H. C. also thanked for reply.] AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iv. 10, 158, 273).—In my edition of the South Place 'Hymns and Anthems'(1873), Harriet Martineau's fine hymn-poem is No. 59, and on the first page it is stated that the collec- tion was "selected and arranged by W. J. Fox, 1841." My memories of South Place Chapel during Mr. Moncure D. Conway's ministrations there are among the happiest of my life. JAMES HOOPER. Norwich. TESTOUT (10th S. iv. 69, 131, 297).—The sur- nameTait is not connected in anyway with the French teste. It should be compared rather with the name Gay than with Head, as it appears to be from the old Norse personal name Teit, which means cheerful. As to the pronunciation of Grosseteste, all its con- sonants should be sounded, i.e., the last syllable like our word " test." It is so marked by all the orthoepists—Thomas (1870), Wor- cester (1887), Smith (1895), &c. JAS. PLATT, Jun. At the last reference W. R. H. notes : " The English names Tait and Tate are probably derived from teste or tete." But I would recall a very early example of the personal name Tate, where, in A.D. 625, Edwin of Northumbria took to wife the daughter of Ethelbert, King of Kent, whose name was Ethelberga, and who was also called by another name, Tate. The authority for this is ^ the Venerable Bede, whose text reads: "JEdil- bergae filia ^Edilbercti regi.s, qure alio nomine Tatse uocabatur" ('Hist. Eccl.,' ii. 9, Plum- mer's ed. i. p. 97). Tat is defined "soft,