Can any of your correspondents cite a corresponding instance of its use, or say whether it is still retained at Oxford as the name of any academic exercise?
H.W.
French Maxim.—Who is the author of the following French saying?—
"L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu."
R.V.
Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi.—If "S.W. SINGER" can give information as to what convent, English or foreign, the sisters Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi, mentioned in his note on Otloh, state themselves (or are assumed) to have belonged, he will much oblige, by doing so,
H.L.B.
A Latin Verse.—Everybody has seen the following quotation—
"Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis,"
and everybody thinks he knows from whence it is taken. Which of your readers can verify it?