Ancient Motto

In reference to a query (No. 6. p. 93.), and a reply (No. 7. p. 104.), permit me to remark, that St. Augustine, the celebrated Bishop of Hippo, was the person who caused to be engraved on his table the distich against detractors. Possidius, in his Life of that Father (S. Augustini, *Opera Omnia*, Paris, 1690, vol. x. part ii. p. 272.), gives the verses—no doubt an adaptation of Horace—thus:— "Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere vitam Hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sibi." The Benedictine editors subjoin two readings of the pentameter:— "Hac mensa indignam noverit esse suam." "Hanc mensam ve…