Rotherfield
_Latin Epigram._--Can any of your correspondents inform me who was the
author of the following epigram:--
IN MEMORIAM G.B.M.D.
"Te tandem tuus Oreus habet, quo civibus Orei
Gratius haud unquam misit Apollo caput;
Quippe tuo jussu terras liquere, putantque
Tartara se jussu linquere posse tuo."
The person alluded to was Sir W. Browne, M.D., the founder of the Browne
medals in the University of Cambridge. Some old fellow of King's College
may be able to inform me.
The medals were first given about the year 1780, and in the first year,
I presume, out of respect to the memory of the donor, no subject was
given for Epigrams. It has occurred to me, that perhaps some wag on that
occasion sent the lines as a quiz.
W.S.
Richmond, Surrey
_Couplet in De Foe_--
"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise,
And good men wicked liberties despise."
This couplet is at the end of the second letter in De Foe's _Great Law
of Subordination_, p. 42. Is it his own? If not, where did he get it?
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