To teach me that in hapless suit I do but waste my hours, Cold maid, whene'er I ask for fruit, Thou givest me naught but flowers. * * * * * In the Latin version of Herodotus, the lowest of the towers forming the temple of Belus, is said to be a furlong thick and a furlong high; and some writers concluding each of the eight to be as high, make the whole one mile in height. In the Greek text, however, the lowest tower is merely said to be a furlong _through_—nothing is said of its height. Strabo makes the temple a furlong altogether in altitude. * * * * * Jacobus Hugo was of opinion that by the Harpies Homer intended the Dutch; by Euenis, John Calvin; by Antinous, Martin Luther; and by the Lotophagi, Protestants in general. * * * * * {581} “Impune quæ libet facere id est esse regem,” is a definition of a king to be found in Sallust. * * * * * The first collection of the Iliad was by Pisistratus, or some of the Pisistratidæ. There were, after this, innumerable editions—but Aristarchus in the reign of Ptolemy Philometer, B.C. 150, published from a collection of all the copies then existing, a new edition, the text of which has finally prevailed. * * * * * Some one after the manner of Santeuil, composed the following quatrain for the gates of the market to be erected on the site of the famous Jacobin Club at Paris, Impia tortorum longas hic turba furores Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit. Sospite nunc patriâ, fracto nunc funeris antro, Mors ubi dira fuit, vita salusque patent. * * * * * A version of the Psalms was published in 1642 by William Slatyer, of which this is a specimen: The righteous shall his sorrow scan And laugh at him, and say ‘Behold! What hath become of this here man That on his riches was so bold.’ * * * * * At the bottom of an obelisk which Pius VI was erecting at great expense near the entrance of the Quirinal Palace in 1783, while the people were suffering for bread, were found written these words, Signore, di a questa pietra che divenga pane. Lord, command that these stones be made bread. * * * * * Constantine Koliades wrote a book to prove that Homer and Ulysses were one and the same—but Joshua Barnes attributes the authorship of the Iliad to Solomon. * * * * * In Σ. xviii. 192, of the Iliad, Achilles says none of the armor of the chieftains will fit him except the shield of Ajax: how then did his own armor fit Patroclus? * * * * * In the reign of Edward VI, Dr. Christopher Tye turned the Acts of the Apostles into rhyme. They begin thus,