HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia, West Indies, Nov. 1850
"_Clarum et venerabile nomen_" (Vol. ii., p. 463.).--Your enquirer as to
whence comes "Clarum et venerabile nomen," &c., will find them in Lucan.
Book ix. l. 203.
E.H.
Norwich.
_Occult Transposition of Letters_ (Vol. i., p. 416.; Vol. ii., p.
77.).--_Concert of Nature._--Other examples of these ambiguous verses are
given by J. Baptista Porta, _de Furtivis Literarum Notis_, one of which has
suggested the following lines, as conveying the compliments of the season
to the editor of "NOTES AND QUERIES:" but which, transposed, would become
an unseasonable address:--
"Principio tibi sit facilis, nec tempore parvo
Vivere permittat te Dea Terpsichore.
Si autem conversis dictionibus leges, dicent,--
Terpsichore Dea te permittat vivere parvo
Tempore, nec facilis sit tibi principio."
I beg leave sincerely, to add, in the words of Ausonius (Ep. xxv.),--
"Quis prohibet Salve atque Vale brevitate parata
Scribere? Felicesque notas mandare libellis."
This magnificent epistle inculcating--
"Nil mutum Natura dedit: non aeris ales
Quadrupedesve silent," &c.
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