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coNSTANTivs " would seem more properly to be- 

 long to Constantius Chlorus. I may add, that all 

 those coins of Constantius which bear an A behind 

 the portrait, certainly belong to Galhis. 



E. S. Taylor. 



Provei-h ; what constitutes one ? (Vol. iv., p. 191.). 

 — There can be no doubt that, according to 

 modern usage, any short sentence which is com- 

 monly used, whether by way of enunciating a 

 principle, foretelling a consequence, describing a 

 situation, or recommending a course of action, &c., 

 is a proverb. Brevity is an essential ; that is, we 

 apply the term proverb to nothing but apo- 

 phthegms. In truth, nothing but what is said in 

 few words can be frequently said by all. Accord- 

 ingly a proverb, in the nineteenth century, is a 

 commonly known and frequently cited apo- 

 phthegm. But it was not always so. Tho, proverb 

 was only one of a class which we may cite under 

 the name of adage, because the various folio col- 

 lections of them generally have this word in the 

 title, as descriptive of all. These works contain 

 proverbs properly so called, sentences (sententice, 

 pieces of sententiousness), parables, apologues, 

 aphorisms, witticisms, apophthegms, &c. &c., many 

 of the instances having a right to two or more of 

 these namies. According to Erasmus, all the de- 

 finitions which he had met with oi tho. parcemia or 

 proverb might be contained under one or other of 

 the following : — 



" Proveibium est sermo ad vit£e rationem conduci- 

 bilis, moderata quadam obscuritate multam in sese con- 

 linens utilitatem." 



" Proverbium est sermo, rem manifestam obscuritate 

 tcgcns." 



The old proverb then has a soul of utility, and 

 a body of obscurity : the modern one has a soul of 

 brevity, and a body of notoriety. This distinction 

 will be held obscure enough for an old proverb, 

 but not brief enough for a new one. M. 



Dr. Matthew SutcUffe (Vol. iv., p. 152.).— Your 

 learned correspondent Mr. Crossley is right in 

 his conjecture that this celebrated controversialist 

 was of a family settled at ISIayroyd in the p.arish 

 of Halifax in Yorkshire. According to a pedigree 

 certified in 1624 by Sir William Segar, Garter, he 

 was the second son of John Sutclitle of Mclroyd, 

 in the county of York, gent., by his wife Margaret, 



daughter of Owlsworth of Ashley in the same 



county. The Doctor married Ann, daughter of 

 Jolin Bradley of Louth, co. Lincoln, Esq., and 

 had issue an only daughter Ann, the wife of Mr. 

 Halls or Halse, of the county of Devon. The 

 Doctor had four brothers, viz. Adam, Solomon, 

 Luke, and John. Adam, the eldest, lived at 

 Grimsby, co. Lincoln, and had an only daughter, 

 Judith. Solomon was of Melroyd and of Griinsljy ; 

 he married Elizabetli, daughter of John Bradley 

 of Loulb, Esq., by Frances his wife, daughter of 



Fairfax of Denton, co. York, and had issue 



four daughters, and also one son, viz. John Sut- 

 cliffe, one of the esquires of the body to King 

 James. His wife was Alice, daughter of Luke 

 Woodhouse of Kimberley, co. Norfolk, Esq., and 

 he had issue one daughter, Susan. Segar granted 

 arms to this gentleman in 1624. Of the other 

 brothers of the Dean, Luke died unmarried, and 

 John married a daughter of Jo. Ivirton of Lin- 

 colnshire. F. E. li. 

 Milnrow Parsonage. 



Pope's Translations, or Imitations of Horace 

 (VoL i., p. 230.; Vol. iv., pp.58. 122. 139.).— 

 Having every wish to accede to the request of 

 your correspondent C., I have made a search, but 

 am unable to lay my hand at present on the pub- 

 lication by Curll. There can be no doubt that I 

 shall ultimately meet with it ; and when I do, it 

 will be quite at his service. Having compared it 

 not very long ago with the folio edition by Bore- 

 man of this Imitation, which I suppose was the 

 first in its complete state, I can be under no mis- 

 take as to the existence of the prior publication. 

 It occurs in a thin 8 vo. published by Curll in 1716, 

 containing poetical miscellanies, which in my copy 

 are bound up with other tracts. It is headed 



" By Mr. P e," and contains only a portion of 



that subsequently printed. Curll afterwards re- 

 printed the Imitation, as published by Boreman, 

 in one of the volumes, I think the third of the col- 

 lection, which he styles " Letters of Mr. Pope." 



That the Imitatiofi is by Pope, though I am not 

 aware of any express acknowledgment of it by 

 him, there can be no doubt, and as little that it 

 fimnd its way to the press, as published by Bore- 

 man, with his privity. Curll even says, if any 

 weight be due to the assertions of such a miscreant, 

 that Pope received a sum of money for it from 

 Boreman. But I do not consider that Pope can 

 be deemed to have affiliated it by its publication 

 in Dodsley's edition in 1738 ; which is, as far as I 

 have always understood, a mere bookseller's col- 

 lection. The only collection of his works which 

 can be called his own, and for which he is fairly 

 responsible, is that in 2 vols,, folio and 4to., 

 1717-35, to each volume of which a preface or 

 notice by him is prefixed ; and in the latter of 

 these volumes, though previously published, he 

 has not included this Imitation, which seems to 

 indicate that he did not feel disposed to acknow- 

 ledge it publicly, and indeed he had good reason 

 to be ashamed of it. Jas. Crosslev. 



3f. Lominus, Theologus (Vol. iv., p. 193.). — The 

 exact title of the work inquired for is, Blackloumv 

 JIaresis, oUm in Pelagio et Manichais (hunnutcc, 

 nunc denuo renasceidis, Ilistoria et Confiitatio. 

 This 4to. volume consists of 332 pages, exclu- 

 sive of the dedicatory epistle and the appendix ; 

 and a " printed account " of the author may be 



