PARALLEL PASSAGES

I believe the following have not been hitherto noticed in "NOTES AND QUERIES." "Nec mirum, quod divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædidicavit urbes."—Varro, R. R. iii. 1. "God made the country and man made the town, What wonder then," &c.—*The Task*, i. "[Greek: O de Kritias ... ekaleito idiotaes men en philosophois, philosuph s de en idiotais.]"—*Schol. in Timoeum. Platonis*. "Sparsum memini hominem inter scholasticos insanum, inter sanos scholasticum."—Seneca, *Controv*. i 7., *Excerpt. ex Controv.* ii. "Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a Lord among Wits."—*Johnsoniana*. "[Gree…