The word "pasquin" (pasquino) is derived from the name of a tailor, who was famous at the end of the fifteenth century for his lampoons. The group of statuary called Pasquino (now badly mutilated) represents Menelaus with the body of Patroclus, looking round for succor in the tumult of battle. The square in which this group stands is also called Piazza del Pasquino. [92] Le Gentil says (_Voyages_, ii, pp. 76, 77, 83) that Zamboanga was very insalubrious, being shut in from the sea winds, and suffering great heat. "It is still a place of exile;" and "the earthly Paradise was not there." [93] That is, "Nature makes one skilful." Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A., says of this expression that it "was an old one, as old at least as the schoolmen, and means little else than the truism 'One's handiness comes as a natural gift.' According to San Antonio the diversity among the races of men as regards their bodily endowments as well as those of mind, genius, and customs, arises from the diversity of climate, and the diversity of air, drink, and meat, whence the axiom that Nature varies her gifts, or man's character is due in a measure to his environments." [94] The passage referred to is at the beginning of San Agustin's noted "Letter to a friend," which is printed (in part) in Delgado's _Hist. Filipinas_, pp. 273-293. He says: "In this research I have been occupied for forty years, and I have only succeeded in learning that the Indians are incomprehensible." The allusion to Solomon is explained by Proverbs, chap. xxx, vs. 18, 19. [95] See Psalm xcv (xciv in Douay version), v. 10: "Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: 'These always err in heart.'" [96] See VOL. XXIII, p. 271, note 118. [97] St. Cassian was a native of Imola, Italy, who was martyred under one of the Roman emperors (Decius, Julian the Apostate, or Valerian). He was a schoolmaster of little children whom he taught to read and write, and his pupils denounced him as a Christian. He was delivered over to his former charges, and they wreaked their vengeance on him by breaking their tablets over his head and piercing him with their styluses. His feast is celebrated on August 13.--T. C. Middleton, O.S.A. [98] _Ordinarios_: an appellation of ecclesiastical judges who try causes in the first instance, and, by antonomasia, of the bishops themselves, regarded as judges in their respective dioceses (Dominguez's _Dicc. nacional_). [99] These ordinances were a revision of former laws, and addition of new ones, by Don Jose Raon, governor of the islands; they were promulgated on February 26, 1768. This code will receive attention in a later volume. [100] Spanish, _comer la sopa boba_; literally, "to eat fool soup"--that is, to live at another's expense; perhaps alluding to the former custom of maintaining fools or jesters in the households of the rich. [101] These are games of cards, the name of the latter indicating the number of points which win the game.