To add one word to confirm what is so transparent, would be merely occupying your space without the slightest necessity. JAS. CROSSLEY. [J. G. R., H. C. K., J. MN., H. L., CHAS. PASLAM, J. A. PICTON, A. E. B., G. S., C. B., SELEUCUS, EDW. S. JACKSON, H. M. A., and many other friends, have kindly furnished similar replies to T. W.'s Query, some at considerable length. We have therefore selected the above, as one of the shortest and first that reached us.] _Gray and Virgil._--Your correspondent on Gray's plagiarisms (Vol. iii., p. 445.) quotes Davenant and Prior as having both forestalled his idea with regard to _sorrow_, that-- "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." I long since noted these lines as parallel to-- Φρονῶ δ', ἃ πάσχω· καὶ τόδ' οὐ σμικρὸν κακόν· τὸ μὴ εἰδέναι γὰρ ἡδονὴν ἔχει τινὰ νοσοῦντα· κέρδος δ' ἐν κακοῖς ἀγνωσία. Euripid. _Frag. Antiop._ xiii. In the next page of "NOTES AND QUERIES," Q. E. D. reasonably defends the expression "Thamesini _littoris_ hospes." The exact distinction between _littus_ and _ripa_ is marked indeed by Ovid, where he says of the rivers: "In mare perveniunt partim, campoque recepta Liberioris aquæ, _pro ripis littora pulsant_."--_Met._ i. 41. But this did not prevent his applying _littora_ to a lake: "Sint tibi Flaminius _Thrasymenaque littora_ testes." _Fast._ vi. 765. Both he and Virgil use _littus_, speaking of the same river: "_Littus adit Laurens_; ubi tectus arundine serpit In freta flumineis vicina Numicius undis." _Met._ xiv. 598. Here, however, there might be a question from the context: not so, however, in _Æn._ vii. 797.: "Qui saltus, Tiberiae, tuos, sacrumque Numici _Littus_ arant." On the other hand we have _ripa_ for _littus_: "Æquoris nigri fremitum, et trementes Verbere ripas." Hor. _Od._ III. xxvii. 23. EFFIGIES. Stamford. _Aulus Gellius' Description of a Dimple_ (Vol. iv., p. 134.).--The couplet quoted by your correspondent RT. is from Varro, and I think he will find it given by Mad. Dacier in her edition of Anacreon, under Ode xxviii., line 26.: "τρυφεροῦ δ' ἔσω γενείου," &c. .ת.א If your correspondent RT. will refer to Gray's _Works_, vol. ii. p. 164., edited by Mitford, and published by Pickering, 1836, he will find the following note:-- "The fragment is not to be found in Aulus Gellius, but in Mori Marcellus, under the word 'Mollitudo.'" Now what _Mori Marcellus_ means, I know not: perhaps some of your correspondents may enlighten me on that point. HENRY DYKE. Gretworth, near Brackley, Aug. 25. 1851. This Mori Marcellus I take to be the same person as Marcellus Nonius, of whom an account is to be found in Smith's _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, &c._, vol. ii. p. 937. F. BW. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.