(4) Vanderhoffen, with scholia, notes, and indices. 7 vols. London. 1807-25. His notes reprinted separately. Leipsic. 1824. MEMOIR OF SAEVIUS NICANOR _Saevius Nicanor Marci libertus negabit_ "She went to the tailor's To buy him a coat; When she came back He was riding the goat." Saevius Nicanor, one of the earliest of the Grammarians, says Suetonius, first acquired fame and reputation by his teaching; and, besides, made commentaries, the greater part of which, however, were said to have been borrowed. He also wrote a satire, in which he informs us that he was a free man, and had a double cognomen. It is reported that in consequence of some aspersion attached to the character of his writing, he retired into Sardinia, and, says Oriphyles, devoted the remainder of his days to the composition of sardonic[1] literature. [Footnote 1: Ackermann reads "Sardinian." It is not certain whether the adjective employed is [Greek: sardanios] or [Greek: sardanikos]. I suspect that Oriphyles here makes an intentional play upon the words.] He is quoted by Macrobius, whereas divers references to Nicanor in _La Haulte Histoire de Jurgen_ would seem to show that this writer was viewed with considerable esteem in mediaeval times. Latterly his work has been virtually unknown. Robert Burton, for the rest, cites Saevius Nicanor in the 1620 edition of _The Anatomy of Melancholy_ (this passage was subsequently remodeled) in terms which have the unintended merit of conveying a very fair notion of the old Grammarian's literary ethics:-- "As a good housewife out of divers fleeces weaves one piece of cloth (saith Saevius Nicanor), I have laboriously collected this Cento out of divers Writers, and that _sine injuria_, I have wronged no authors, but given every man his own; which Sosimenes so much commends in Nicanor, he stole not whole verses, pages, tracts, as some do nowadays, concealing their Authors' names, but still said this was Cleophantus', that Philistion's, that Mnesides', so said Julius Bassus, so Timaristus, thus far Ophelion: I cite and quote mine own Authors (which howsoever some illiterate scribblers account pedantical, as a cloak of ignorance and opposite to their affected fine style, I must and will use) _sumpsi, non surripui_, and what Varro _de re rustica_ speaks of bees, _minime malificae quod nullius opus vellicantes faciunt deterius_, I can say of myself no less heartily than Sosimenes his laud of Nicanor." PROLEGOMENA _Nec caput habentia, nec caudam_ "I had a little husband, no bigger than my thumb, I put him in my pint-pot, and there I bid him drum."