Ancient Motto

In reference to your querist in No. 6., respecting the motto which "some Pope or Emperor caused to be engraven in the centre of his table," and the correspondent in No. 7. who replies to him by a quotation from Horace, I beg to observe that honest Thomas Fuller, in *The Holy State*, 275. ed. Lond. 1648, tells us, that St. Augustine "had this distich written on his table:— "Quisquis amat dictis absentem rodere famam, Hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sibi. He that doth love on absent friends to jeere, May hence depart, no room is for him here."