1797-1 
yet, perhaps, fome ingenious mechanic 
might be encouraged to invent a hor/e 
mill, apon improved and convenient prin- 
ciples, eccupying but little room, and 
calculated to ferve two or more neigh- 
bourmg families. In the country vil- 
Jages there is ufually fuficient room in 
the outbuildings of a farm-houfe for the 
erection of fuch a mill as this propoted ; 
and in large towns, where room is more 
fcarce, private perfons might be encou- 
raged to fet up the mill tor the ufe of 
the neighbourhood, as ovens and bake- 
-houfes now are done. The bulinefs of 
grinding corn is not very difficult to be 
learned ; and, if feveral mills of the pro- 
pofed kind were fet up, the trade would 
get into more hands; a competition would 
be raifed, and the public be greatly bene-_ 
fitted. If, however, this propofal fhould 
be treated with negleét, or be found im- 
practicable, the public would derive much 
ufeful knowledge upon the fubjeét, by 
encouraging fome intelligent profeffional 
man to colleét and pubiifh all the laws 
and regulations concerning millers, after 
which affociations might be formed, if 
meceflary, for profecuting fuch ef them 
as deferve it. Your’s, 
May 12. Re 
P.S. As you have obliged Mr. Bart- 
LETT by inferting his queries about the 
hand-miull, and the anfwer to them, I 
hope you will afford me room in your 
next Magazine for the following query : 
** Can any of your readers inform me 
whether a_ really good and -complete 
“Thrething Machine is yet invented, upon 
a fimple conftruétion, moderate price, 
and portable, if required?” N.B. If an 
an{fwer is returned to this query, it 1s 
wifhed to come from a prastical farmer, 
who has tried the machine he defcribes, 
and threflred with it at leaft one whole 
years’ crop. 
— Ea 
Ta the Editor of the h Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
IMAGINE that an accurate and farif- 
factory anfwer to the enquiry in your 
laft Number, page 365, will be given by 
fome of your literary correfpondents 5 
but 3£ this fhould not be the cafe, it may 
gratify the propofer of the queftion re- 
{pecting the phrafe, 
Quem Deus vult ferdere prius dementat, 
to be informed, that it is tranflated from 
afragment of Euripides. I am uncer- 
tain to what age the Latinity can be 
traced, and I have net the original at 
hand foe citation: but Iam greatly mif- 
taken ig a more particular account of the » 
~ 
Horfe ills... Latin Proverbial Lines. 
“works full 
423 
pafiage is not to be found in the Men - 
giana. I have, in vain, turned over 
thofe volumes in fearch for it, but 
amongft other Latin phrafes of com- 
mon ufage, and of ob{cure original, the 
following occurs, which you and your 
readers may, perhaps, think to be not 
unworthy of notice. If it is not ia the 
mouths and writings of politicians fo fre- 
quently as the former, it may not be un- 
feafonable, in the prefent crifis of Party 
Rage on both fides, to fuggeft it to-their 
conlideration: And, notwithftanding the 
numerous copies we have of the Mena- 
giana, the fubjeét I introduce to you is fo 
far from being generally known, that E 
have feen twoof the bett claffic {cholars, 
and moft elegant poets now living, puz- 
zled by the query, to what author are 
we indebted for the common verfe, 
*« Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim 2” 
It is obferved, Menagiana, tome iii, 
p- 130, that ‘* Erafmus confeffes his 
ignorance of the author of this celebrated 
verfe, with which he clofes his expofition 
of a proverb, taken (though not quoted) 
from Apoftolius : 
Thy XapuPdw txbviywy Ti Savy weprenéoay. 
“‘ Galeottus Martius de Narni, who died 
in 1476 (for whom fee Naudé, chap. v. 
-of his Supplement to the Hiftory of 
Louis XI, and pere Labbeé,: p- 373, of 
his new library of MSS.) was the firft 
who difcovered this verfe to belong to 
Philip Gaultier, in his Alexandreid. 
He obferves in his book, de Doétrina 
promifcua, ‘Hoc carmen, incidit in 
Scyllam, &c. eft Gualteri Galli de geftis 
Alexandri, & mon vagum proverbium, 
ut quidam non omnino indoéti memine-~ 
runt.’ The fame remark was fince made 
by ee chap. xxix. of the third 
book of his Refearches. 
«Philip Gaultier was Norn at Lifle, in 
Flanders, according to De Chatilion; 
and was living in the middle of the thir- 
teenth century. Amongft others of his 
extant, is his poem, entitled 
the Alexandreid, in ten books; not nine, 
as the elder Voflius afferts, de Poetis 
Latinis, p. 74. The verfe already cited, 
is the 301f of the Fifth Book, where the 
poet, in this manner, apoftrophizes 
Darius, in falling by the hand or eed 
whilft fleeing From Alexander : 
Quo tendis inertem 
Rex periture fugam? Neifcis, heu! pa Ae 
nefcis - 
Quem fugias ; hoftes incurris dum fugis bogies: 
Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim.” 
' Your’s, &c. 
Fane 2, 1797s RABKASHEB. 
3 I & Ta 
