PARALLEL PASSAGES.

I believe the following have not been hitherto noticed in "NOTES AND
QUERIES."

"Nec mirum, quod divina natura dedit agros, ars
humana ædidicavit urbes."--Varro, R. R. iii. 1.

"God made the country and man made the town,
What wonder then," &c.--_The Task_, i.

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"[Greek: O de Kritias ... ekaleito idiotaes men en philosophois,
philosuph s de en idiotais.]"--_Schol. in Timoeum. Platonis_.

"Sparsum memini hominem inter scholasticos insanum, inter sanos
scholasticum."--Seneca, _Controv_. i 7., _Excerpt. ex Controv._
ii.

"Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a Lord among
Wits."--_Johnsoniana_.

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"[Greek: Ostis eim ego; Meton,
On oiden Hellas cho Kolonos.]"

Aristophanes, _The Birds_, 997.