Haud impunitum quondam fore, quod dubitaret
Depositum retinere et fraudem jure tueri
Jurando."
The Spartan's name was Glaucus. The story is told at large in Herodot. vi. 86. See Stocker's note on Juv. Sat. xiii. 199. The use of "sibi," in the extract from the Legenda Aurea, is new to me. Is it common in monkish Latin?
C. FORBES.
Temple.
Anagrams (Vol. iv., pp. 226. 297.).
—MR. BREEN put another Query besides "Where shall we find six good anagrams?" He asked, "How comes it that a species of composition once so popular should have become extinct?"
Let me venture to refer MR. BREEN to The Spectator for an answer to this inquiry; where, in Addison's brilliant papers on "False Wit" (Nos. 58. &c.), he will find the whole family of ingenious quibblings,—anagrams, acrostics, chronograms, puns, bouts-rimes, &c.,—mown down to their just level. And MR. BREEN cannot, I am sure, as a man of taste, fail to be delighted, even although he may think the following passage (which I quote chiefly as a warning against the rise of an anagrammatric epidemic among your correspondents) a little severe on his old friends:
"The acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram, though it is impossible to decide whether the inventor of the one or the other were the greater blockhead."