The fact that Henry II. rebelled against his father is not given in any history which I have
read; and the popular belief in the remarkable descent of Henry, and consequently of our present royal family, is quite new to me, and to all of whom I have inquired. Still, finding that the writer had an authority for the "discipline," he may have one for the Devil. If so, I should like to know it; for I contemplate something after the example of Lucian's Quomodo Historia sit conscribenda.
H. B. C.
U. U. Club.
"QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT."
Having disposed of the allegation that the Greek Iambic,
"ὅν θεὸς θέλει ἀπολέσαι πρῶτ' ἀποφρέναι,"
was from Euripides, by denying the assertion, I am also, on farther investigation, compelled to deny to him also the authorship of the cited passage,—
"ὅταν δε Δαίμων ἀνδρὶ πορσύνῃ κακὰ, τὸν νοῦν ἔβλαψε πρὼτον."