Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various
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[Footnote 11: _Ath. Deip._ iv. 13. l. 93.] [Footnote 12: _Plut. in Lyc._ "[Greek: En chersi daemiourgon kai mageiron.]"] [Footnote 13: "[Greek: Edei de opsopoious en Lakedaimoni einai kreos monou ho de para touto epizamenos exelauneto taes Spartaes]."--_Æl. Var. Hist._ xiv. 7.] [Footnote 14: "[Greek: Hoi Lakones hoxos men kai halas dontes to mageiro, ta loipa keleuoysin en to hiereio xaetein]."--_Plut. de tuenda Sanitate._] [Footnote 15: _Meursii Misc. Lacon_. lib. i. cap. 8.] * * * * * QUERIES. TEN QUERIES CONCERNING POETS AND POETRY. 1. In a curious poetical tract, entitled _A Whip for an Ape, or Martin displaied_; no date, but printed in the reign of Elizabeth, occurs the following stanza:-- "And ye grave men that answere Martin's mowes, He mockes the more, and you in vain loose times. Leave Apes to Dogges to baite, their skins to Crowes, |
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