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for the price of an elephant." See Arrian, ' Indica,' cap. xvii. 3.

Vol. iv. p. 300, ' Winter Half -Year,' serm. xxiv., C i2s apa ov8ev TI 8t,a(36Xov yAwT- T7 ? s I X^P l<TTOV * v u-v6pwTroi<s ere/oov Ka/coV. See Nicolaus Caussinus, ' Polyhistor Sym- bolicus,' lib. ix. cap. Ixv., ad fin., where the margin has " Nicet. in Manuele Comnen.," and Nicetas Choniata, ' De Manuele Com- neno,' lib. iii. p. 116, ed. 1593; Migne's ' Patrologia Graeca,' vol. cxxxix. col. 444b. Taylor's quotation is not quite accurate.

Vol. iv. p. 426, ' Summer Half -Year,' serm. viii. 2, " Vox populi vox Dei, ' fame is the voice of God.' ' As Biichmann pointed out, ' Gefliigelte Worte,' ed. 10, p. 168, Alcuin cites this proverb in his ' Capitulare admonitionis ad Carolum,' " Nee audiendi qui solent dicere : Vox populi, vox Dei." The full reference (Biichmann only quotes from Estienne Baluze's 'Miscellanea') is 'Alcuini Op. Omnia,' torn. i. ( = Migne, ' Patrologia Latina,' torn, c.), ep. clxvi. 9, col. 438. Biichmann afterwards dropped the quotation from Alcuin, and, ed. 20, p. 353, offered as the earliest Latin source of the saying Seneca, ' Controversise,' I. i. 10, " Crede mihi, sacra populi lingua est." King, ' Class, and For. Quot.,' No. 2971, gives a further instance of the familiar form from William of Malmes- bury, ' De Gestis Pontif. Anglorum,' i. 14 (Migne, torn, clxxix. 1451b), where it is introduced as " illud proverbium." In ed. 10 Biichmann suggests Homer, ' Odyssey,' iii. 214, 215, and in ed. 20 Hesiod, ' Opera et Dies,' 763, 764, <>?/*?, K.T. A., as the ultimate source.

Vol. vi. p. 360, ' A Dissuasive from Popery,' part ii. bk. i. 1, iv. 4,

Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata. See Terentianus Maurus, ' De Litteris Syl- labis Metris,' 1286, in Keil's ' Grammatici Latini,' vi. 363.

I have seen no later copies of vols. iv. and vi. of Eden's Taylor than those dated 1848 and 1849 respectively, but the refer- ences given above are not included in the Index of 1854 that professes to answer to the 1854 issue. See vol. i. p. cccxxxi. The " few trifling corrections " there spoken of are, perhaps, more numerous, if not more important, than might be supposed. I have traced several quotations which were not identified in the first edition, and excluded them from this list on finding that the right references had been given in a later issue. As far as my experience goes, librarians

have not paid much attention to this bibliographical point. It is curious that some of the largest libraries in the king- dom should not possess copies of the best issue of the best edition of a writer placed by Coleridge " amongst the four great geniuses of old English literature " (H. N. Coleridge's note to S. T. Coleridge's ' Table Talk,' 4 June, 1830).

Vol. vii. (1854), p. 223, ' Unum Neces- sarium,' chap. v. sect. vi. 27 :

Spem retine, spes una hominem nee morte relinquit.

This is from Dionysius Cato, ' Disticha de Moribus,' II. xxv. 2.

Vol. viii. (1854), p. 381, AEKA2 EMBOAI- MAIO2, serm. vi., 'Via intelligent!*,' 'AAA' eyw Is KaOapfav, K.T. A.

When giving (ante, p. 45) the reference to the ' Greek Anthology ' I had not noticed that this is another of the quotations that Taylor took from Caussinus, who has six lines of the poem in lib. i. cap. xl. of his ' Poly- histor Symbolicus,' and gives the author's name, with a reference to the fourth book .of the (Planudean) Anthology.

Vol. viii. p. 439, serm. viii., the Countess of Carbery's funeral sermon, " At cum exierit et in liberum caelum quasi in domum suam venerit." This is from Cicero's First ' Tusculan Disputation,' xxii. 51. There should be no in before " domum."

Vol. viii. p. 535, serm. xi. iii, 2 : ' In deciding the questions and cases of conscience of your flocks, never strive to speak what is pleasing, but what is profitable, ot> \6yovs, dXXa irpayfJidTUv 6tyye<rOai owrt'as, as was said, of Isidore the philosopher ; you must ' not give your people words, but things,' and substantial food."

The source of the Greek quotation remained unidentified in the issue of 1854. It is taken from the extract from Damascius's life of Isidorus in Photius, ' Bibliotheca,' 242, ii. 338 in Bekker's edition (1824), Earei/ av TI; ov. A. avrov a. TT. <. ov.

Vol. x. p. 34, ' Ductor Dubitantium/ bk. iii. chap. i. rule 2, 10 :

" Melius est ut unus quam un-itas, ' it is ex- pedient that one man die for the people,' one member for the whole body ; rather one than the unity be dissolved and the community ruined." In the additional notes and corrections at the end of the 1852 edition of this volume Eden refers to " S. Aug. apud Lips, polit.^ lib. iv. cap. 3." In the 1855 issue the note appears in its place at the foot of the text