—In which of the English periodicals can I have met with a drawing of the Shield of Hercules, as described by Hesiod?
BATAVUS.
Amsterdam.
"Sum Liber, et non sum," &c.—
"Sum Liber, et non sum liber, quia servio Servo.
Sum Servus Servo, Servus et ille Deo."
The above lines are written in the fly-leaf of a copy of the Iliad, Greek and Latin, which formerly belonged to Sir Isaac Newton, and bears his autograph. Can any of your correspondents inform me whence they are taken? or may they be considered as the original composition of Newton? The autograph is "Isaac Newton. Trin. Coll. Cant. 1661."
G. E. T.