SAMUEL HICKSON.
St. John's Wood, March 19. 1850.
PROVERBIAL SAYINGS AND THEIR ORIGINS—PLAGIARISMS AND PARALLEL PASSAGES.
"Ον οι Θεοι φιλουσιν αποθνησκει νεοσ."
Brunck, Poëtæ Gnomici, p. 231., quoted by Gibbon, Decl. and Fall (Milman. Lond. 1838. 8vo.), xii. 355. (note 65.)
"Quem Jupiter vult perdere, priùs dementat."
These words are Barnes's translation of the following fragment of Euripides, which is the 25th in Barnes' ed. (see Gent.'s Mag., July, 1847, p. 19, note):—
"Οταν δε Δαιμων ανδρι πορσυνη κακα,
Τον νουν εξλαψε προτον."