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iis.vi.jiLY2o.i9i2.] NOTES AND QUERIES.


QUOTATIONS IN JEREMY TAYLOR. (See 11 S.i.466; ii. 65; iii. 122; iv. 122.)

THE following must be added to the list of quotations that have escaped identification in Eden's edition :

Vol. iii. (1847), p. 46, note e, 'Holy Living,' chap. ii. sect, i.,

Laota venire Venus, tristis abire solet. See I. xiii. in the first volume of John Owen's ' Epigrammata ' (1606),

Principium dulce est, at finis amoris aniarus ;

Laeta venire Venus, tristis abire solet. Flumina quaesitum sic in mare dulcia currunt :

Pestquam gustarunt a?quor, amara fluunt.

Vol. iv. (1848), p. 46, at the end of Ser- mon III. for the winter half-year,

Seu vigilo intent us studiis, seu dormio, semper Judicis extremi nostras tuba personet aures.

These lines are by Cornelius Schona?us of Gouda (1541-1611), best known as the author of the sacred comedies published under the title of ' Terentius Christianus.' They occur, under the heading ' Dictum D. Hieronymi,' towards the end of the ' Epi- grammatum Liber ' printed in his ' Lucu- brationum Pars Tertia,' p. 305, ed. Cologne, 1618, with " personat " for personet.

Vol. iv. p. 270, three-quarters through Sermon XXI. for the winter half - year, fj re/ico-is irapa TTO&XS fBa.ivi. See Schott's ' Adagia sive Proverbia Graecorum ' (1612), p. 490, ' Proverbiorum e Suida ' Cent. x. 48 ; and Suidas (Gaisford), torn. ii. col. 2572, Kal apoijj.ia~

Xe/zecrts <$ ye Trap 7ro8a ftaivet, where editors before Kiister read Trooas.

Vol. iv. p. 569, less than three-quarters through Sermon XIX. for the summer half- year, " the terrors of a guilty conscience, those verbera et laniatus, those secret ' lash- ings and whips ' of the exterminating angel." See the passage from Tacitus, ' Annals,' vi. 6, quoted in the Preface to the ' Life of Jesus Christ,' vol. ii. p. 14.

Vol. iv. p. 580, over two-thirds through Sermon XX. for the summer half-year, " Ton' drjptov pporos /zaAAov di'7y/zcpos, 'man is the most harmful of all the wild beasts/ " Eden, while referring in his Addenda to parallels in Ammianus Marcellinus and Montaigne, failed to trace these Greek words to their source. See the epigram ascribed to Antiphanes, ' Anthologia Palatina,' xi. 348, beginning

'ft BripZv /?/3OT fJLoiXXov d


Vol. vi. (1849), p. 3 11, less than half-way through the Introduction to ' The Second Part of the Dissuasive from Popery,' " but nobis non licet esse tarn beatis." It should have been noted that this is an adaptation of Martial, IX. xi. 16 :

Nobis non licet esse tarn disertis. Vol. viii. (1850), p. 145, 'The Worthy Communicant,' chap. iv. sect, iv., about four-fifths through the section, and foot- note y, "a man must not go to law because the musician keeps false time with his foot Aia rt]v (.v TW TroSl irpbs TI/V Xvpav a.fj.apriav.' See Schott's ' Adagia,' p. 351, ' Prow, e Suida' Cent. ii. 17; and Suidas, col. 212 (Gaisford).*

Vol. viii. p. 259, about two-thirds through the first sermon of AEKAS EMBOAIMAIOS,

Unum operantur

Et calor et frigus, sic hoc, sic illud adurit ; Sic tenebrae visum, sic sol contrarius urit. See the so-called ' Cypriani ad quendam senatorem ex Christiana religions ad idolorum servitutem conversum,' vv. 51-53, in vol. xxiii. of the Vienna ' Corpus Script. Eccle- siast.' The beginning of 51 is

Omne quod est nimium, contra cadit. And v. 54 is Et pariter laedunt tepidum fervensque lavacrum.

Vol. viii. p. 381, under two-thirds through Sermon VI. of the same set, 'AAA' eyw ts KaOaptav /j.pOTrwv (frpeva. irvprrov


This is from a poem attributed to Maritinua Scholasticus, headed Eis "Eptara o~r<^avw- fj.fvov, 11. 7, 8. See cap. xvi. ' Appendix Planudea,' No. 201, vol. ii. of Dubner's ed- of the ' Anthologia Palatina.' KaOapCw should be


Vol. ix. (1851), p. 528, ' Ductor Dubitan- tium,' book ii. chap. iii. rule vii., Hie locus, hoec eadem sub qua requiescimus arbor Scit quibus ingemui curis, quibus ignibus ai-si. This is from Baptista Mantuanus, Eclogue i. 6, 7. EDWAJRD BENSLY,

University College, Aberystwyth.


" AIRCBAJT." Messrs. .Fowler ought not to have omitted " airman M and " aircraft " in their excellent ' Concise O.D.' The latter word has received official recognition, as shown by the name "The Rojal Aircraft Factory." Apart from this, it is short,


  • In Suidas, [Plat.] 'Clitoph.' 407c, and Plut.

'Moral.' 534K, the last word of the proverb is