May 31. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



431 



stronger or better ? The whole epigram is so 

 good that I venture to transcribe it. 



" AD MARTIALEM DE AGENDA VITA BEATA. 



" Si tecum mihi, care Martialis, 

 Securis liccat fiui diebiis, 

 Si disponeie tempus oliosum, 

 Et verse pariter vacare vitse, 

 Nee nos atria, nee domos potentum, 

 Nuc lites tetricas, forumque tiiste 

 N6s?emus, nee imagines superbas: 

 Sed gestatio, fabiila?, libelli. 

 Campus, porticus, umbra, virgo, ihermaD ; 

 HcEC essent loca semper, hi laborcs. 

 Nunc vivlt sibi neuter, lieu ! biinosque 

 Soles elFugere atque abire seiitit ; 

 Qui nobis peiifunt, et imputantur. 

 Quisquam vlvere cum sciat, moratur? " 



Lib. V. ep. 20. 



W. (1) 

 [We are indebted to several other correspondents for 

 similar replies to this Query; and one, A. C. W., re- 

 marks that tiie epigram from which these lines are 

 quoted, is thus translated by Cowley : 



" Now to himself, alas! dees neither live, 

 But sees good suns, of which we are to give 

 A strict account, set and march thick away: 

 Knows a man how to live, and does he stay ?"] 



Authors of the Anti-Jacohin Poetry (Vol. iii., 

 p. 348.). — I knew all tiie writers, some of them 

 intimately ; and I have no doubt of tlie general 

 accuracy of iNIn. Hawkins's communication. The 

 items marked li are the least to be relied on. I 

 do not think Mr. Hammond, then Canning's col- 

 league as Under-Secretary of State, wrote a line, 

 certainly not of verse, though be no doubt assisted 

 his friend in compiling, and perhaps correcting ; 

 good offices, which obtained him an honourable 

 niche in the counter-satire issued from Brooke's, 

 and preserved from oblivion by having been re- 

 printed in the Anti-Jacohin to give more poignancy 

 to Canning's reply, " Bard of the borrowed 

 lyre," &c. ' 



The Latin verses " Ipsa niali Hortatrix" were 

 the sole production of Lord Wellesley, and he 

 reprinted them a year or two before his deatli ; 

 Mr. Frere had no share in them : but, on the 

 other hand, JMr. Frere may have been, and I think 

 was, the autlior of tlic iirinslation, "Parent of 

 countless crimes." Lord "Wellesley certainly was 

 not ; for it was made after he had sailed for India. 



AVith regard to JMr. Wright's appropriation of 

 particular passages of the longer poems to dilT'er- 

 ent authors, it is obviously impossiljlc that it 

 should be more than a vague conjecture. I ktiow 

 that botli Canning and GilTord professed 7iot to be 

 able to make any such distribution ; but both left 

 on my mind tlie impression that, Canning's share of 

 the "New Morality"' was so very nnicli tlie hirgest 

 as to entitle liim to be consi<lered its author. 

 Ought not Canning's verses to be collected ? C. 



" Felix, quern faciunt" Sfc. (Vol. iii., p. 373.). — \ 

 Though I cannot refer ErriGiES to the original ; 

 author of tliis passage, the following parallels may 

 not be unacceptable to him : 



" Felix, quem faciunt aliorum cornua cautum, 

 Sa^pe suo, coelebs dixit Acerra, patri." 

 Joannis Audoeni, Epigr. 147. Lib. i. (nat. circa 1600.) 

 Again : 



" Felix, quicunque dolore 



Aitcrius disces posse car; re tuo." 



Tibul. lib. iii. 6. 43. 



It is remarkable that the annotator on this 

 passage in the Dolphin ed., Paris, 1685, p. 327., 

 quotes the line in question thus: " Consonat illud : 

 Felix quem faciunt," &c , without giving the 

 authority. 



Again : 



" Periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quod ex usu siet." — • 

 Ten Heaiit. i. 2. 36. (Not 25., as in the Delpliin Index.) 



Again : 



" Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit." 



This passage is assigned to Plautus in tlie Sylloge 

 of Petrus Lagnerius, Francf. 1610, p. 312., but I 

 cannot find it in this author. C. H. P. 



Brighton, May 12. 1851. 



Perhaps it is hardly an answer to Effigies to 

 tell him that the earliest occurrence of this line, 

 with which I am acquainted, is in a rebus be- 

 neath the device of the Parisian printer, Felix 

 Balligault, about the year 1496. Thus : 



" Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. 

 Felici monumenta die felicia felix 

 Pressit : et hjEC vicii dant retinentve nihil." 



The device is a fruit-tree, from which a shield 

 is suspended inscribed y"eZj.r. Two apes are seated 

 at the foot of the tree. The thought is, however, 

 common to the wise and the witty of every age. 

 Menander has it thus : — 



" )3/\€7ra>c TrtTraiotuju' €(j ra liiov aWtev KaKa." 



And Plautus : 



" Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculum sapit." 



Compare Terence, Ileaut. i. 2. 36. : 



" Periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quod ex usu siet." 



And Diodorus Siculus, i. ab init. : 



" Ka\iiv yap t)) hvvaaOai ro7i t&v aWcov ayvofifiacri 

 irpus Si6p8o>(7iv -xprjaBai irapaSeiynaffi." 



And Tibullus, lib. iii. eleg. vi. : 



" Felix, quicunque dolore 

 Alterius disces posse carere tuo." 



These indications may perhaps put your cor- 

 respondent in tlie way of a more satisfactory an- 

 swer to his question. S. W. Sikger. 



Church Bells (Vol. iii., p. 339.). — Should the 

 following extract from IMr. Fletcher's Notes on 

 Nineveh have escaped the noti(;c of 1Mb. Gatty, it 

 may probalily interest him : — 



