"_Plurima, pauca, nihil_," (Vol. vi., p. 511.).--A correspondent asks for the first part of an epigram which ends with the words "plurima, pauca, nihil." He is referred to an epigram of Martial, which _I_ cannot find. But I chance to remember two epigrams which were affixed to the statue of Pasquin at Rome, in the year 1820, upon two Cardinals who were candidates for the Popedom. They run as follows, and are smart enough to be worth preserving: "PASQUINALIA. "Sit bonus, et fortasse pius--sed semper ineptus-- Vult, meditatur, agit, _plurima, pauca, nihil_." "IN ALTERUM. "Promittit, promissa negat, ploratque negata, Hæc tria si junges, quis neget esse Petrum." A. BORDERER. _"Pork-pisee" and "Wheale"_ (Vol. vi., p. 579.).--Has not MR. WARDE, in his second quotation, copied the word wrongly--"pork-pisee" for pork-_pesse_? A porpoise is the creature alluded to; or _porpesse_, as some modern naturalists spell it. "Wheale" evidently means _whey_: the former expression is probably a provincialism. JAYDEE. _Did the Carians use Heraldic Devices?_ (Vol. vi., p. 556.).--Perhaps the following, from an heraldic work of Dr. Bernd, professor at the University of Bonn, may serve to answer the Queries of MR. BOOKER. Herodotus ascribes the first use, or, as he expresses it, the invention of signs on shields, which we call arms, and of the supporter or handle of the shield, which till then had been suspended by straps from the neck, as well as of the tuft of feathers or horse-hair on the helmet, to the Carians; in which Strabo agrees with him, and, as far as regards the supporters and crest, Ælian also: "Herodot schrieb den ersten Gebrauch, oder wie er sich ausdrückt, die Erfindung der Zeichen auf Schilden, die wir Wappen nennen, wie auch der Halter oder Handhaben an den Schilden, die bis dahin nur an Riemen um den Nacken getragen wurden, und die Büsche von Federn oder Rosshaaren auf den Helmen, den Cariern zu, worin ihm Strabo (_Geogr._ 14. I. § 27.), und was die Handhaben und Helmbüsche betrifft, auch Ælian (_Hist. Animal._ 12. 30.), beistimmen."--Bernd's _Wappenwissen der Griechen und Römer_, p. 4. Bonn, 1841. On Thucydides i. 8., where mention is made of Carians disinterred by the Athenians in the island of Delos, the scholiast, evidently referring to the passage cited by MR. BOOKER, says: [Greek: Kares prôtoi heuron tous omphalous tôn aspidôn, kai tous lophous. tois oun apothnêskousi sunethapton aspidiskion mikron kai lophon, sêmeion tês heureseôs.] From Plutarch's _Artaxerxes_ (10.) may be inferred, that the Carian standard was a cock; for the king presented the Carian who slew Cyrus with a golden one, to be thenceforth carried at the head of the troop. For full information on the heraldry of the ancients, your correspondent can scarcely do better than consult the above-quoted work of Dr. Bernd. JOHN SCOTT. Norwich.