Tempora mutantur &c

In reply to your correspondent, “E.V.” (No. 14. p. 215.), I beg to state, that the germ of “Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis,” is to be found in the *Delitiæ Poetarium Germanorum*, vol. i. p. 685., under the Poems of Matthias Borbonius. He considers them as a saying of Lotharius I. (flor. Cir. 830.):— “Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis; Illa vices quasdam res habet, illa suas.” I sent this communication, some years ago, to *Sharpe’s Magazine*, where it will be found, vol. v. p. 208.