As this subject has certainly engaged the attention of many of your readers, it will be a great favour conferred on the present writer, if their replies should indicate the authors' names, the date and place of the edition, the page, and such other distinctive marks as shall lead to a prompt investigation of the subject: among them, whether the authors quoted are in the library of the British Museum.
CALMET.
"Fronte Capillatâ," &c.—On the Grammar School at Guilsbro, in Northamptonshire, is inscribed the following hexameter:—
"Fronte capillatâ post est Occasio calva."
I suppose it alludes to some allegorical representation of Occasio; and is intended to convey the same meaning as our English proverb, "Seize time by the forelocks." From what author is this inscription taken?
E.H.A.
REPLIES.
"GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH."
(Vol. i., p. 230.)