Non servio materiæ sed indulgeo; quæ quo ducit sequendum est, non quo invitat.

SENECA.


[INTERCHAPTER IV.]

ETYMOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE REMAINS OF VARIOUS TRIBES OR FAMILIES MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURAL HISTORY.


All things are big with jest; nothing that's plain
But may be witty, if thou hast the vein.
HERBERT.


[CHAPTER XXXIX. P. I.]