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"Quidam Rex Graeciae, &c.; here ye may see but half a joy; who
should joy in this world if he remembered him of the pains of
the other world?"
What is the Greek Book, and who is the king of Greece alluded to?
N.E.R.
_Selden's Titles of Honour_.--Does any gentleman possess a MS. Index
to Selden's _Titles of Honour_? Such, if printed, would be a boon; for
it is a dreadful book to wade through for what one wants to find.
B.
_Colonel Hyde Seymour_.--In a book dated 1720, is written "Borrow the
Book of Col. Hyde Seymour." I am anxious to know who the said Colonel
was, his birth, &c.?
B.
_Quem Deus vult perdere, &c._--Prescot, in his _History of the
Conquest of Peru_ (vol. ii., p. 404., 8vo. ed.), says, while remarking
on the conduct of Gonzalo Pisaro, that it may be accounted for by "the
insanity," as the Roman, or rather Grecian proverb calls it, "with
which the gods afflict men when they design to ruin them." He quotes
the Greek proverb from a fragment of Euripides, in his note:--
"[Greek: Otan de Daimon andri parsunei kaka
Ton noun eblapse proton.
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