I have now ascertained that the words

"Sylla's a mulberry sprinkled with meal"

are to be found in Langhorne's _Plutarch_, as a translation of the original

Greek quoted by P. C. S. S.

[Footnote 1: Continued from Vol. iv., p. 435.; Vol. vi., p. 123.]

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