PROVERBIAL SAYINGS AND THEIR ORIGINS—PLAGIARISMS AND PARALLEL PASSAGES

"Ον οι Θεοι φιλουσιν αποθνησκει νεοσ." Brunck, *Poëtæ Gnomici*, p. 231., quoted by Gibbon, *Decl. and Fall* (Milman. Lond. 1838. 8vo.), xii. 355. (*note* 65.) "Quem Jupiter vult perdere, priùs dementat." These words are Barnes's translation of the following fragment of Euripides, which is the 25th in Barnes' ed. (see *Gent.'s Mag.*, July, 1847, p. 19, *note*):— "Οταν δε Δαιμων ανδρι πορσυνη κακα, Τον νουν εξλαψε προτον." This, or a similar passage, may have been employed proverbially in the time of Sophocles. See l. 632. et seq. of the *Antigone* (ed. Johnson. Londini. 1758. 8vo.); on which pa…