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Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
page 50 of 67 (74%)
Hoffman's _Lexicon Universale_, and Facciolati, ed. Bailey, Appendix,
voc. _Zenobia_.

M.
Oxford.


_Cromwell's Estates_ (No. 24. p. 389.).--There is Woolaston, in
Gloucestershire, four miles from Chepstow, chiefly belonging now to the
Duke of Beaufort.

C.B.


_Vox et præterea Nihil_ (No. 16. p. 247., and No. 24. p. 387.).--This
saying is to be found in Plutarch's _Laconic Apophthegms_ ([Greek:
Apophthegmata Lakonika]), Plutarchi _Opera Moralia_, ed. Dan.
Wyttenbach, vol. i. p. 649.

Philemon Holland has "turned it into English" thus:--

"Another [Laconian] having plucked all the feathers off from a
nightingale, and seeing what a little body it had: 'Surely,'
quoth he, 'thou art all voice, and nothing else.'"--_Plutarch's
Morals_, fol. 1603. p. 470.

W.B.R.


_Law of Horses._--The following is from Oliphant's _Law of Horses, &c._,
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