Boëmos potuit vincere Pontifices.”
Literally rendered the Latin elegiacs declare,—
“Other things will grow dumb, and the sheep-skin be silent,
If drums made from the hide of a wolf should sound.
Of this so sore afraid is the membrane of sheep,
That though dead it could not bear its dead foe.
So Zisca’s skin torn off, he, changed to a drum,
The Bohemian chief priests was able to conquer.”
These curious ideas Whitney adopts, and most lovingly enlarges,—
“A Secret cause, that none can comprehende,