is transferred from Horace to Ovid; while, on the reverse of the same fol., Æsop has the credit of
"Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro;
Hoc coeleste bonum præterit orbis opes."
Of the first line of the couplet, Ménage says (Menagiana, Amstm. 1713. 12mo.), iii. 132., that it is "de la fable du 3'e Livre de ce même Poëte à qui nous avons dit qu'appartenoit le vers
"'Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest;'"
But I cannot find the reference to which he alludes.
In the same fol. (149 rect.) is perhaps the earliest quotation of
"Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed sæpè cadende.—
Sapiens,"
which occurs also in Menagiana (Amstm. 1713. 12mo.), i. 209.:—