"_Plurima, pauca, nihil_," (Vol. vi., p. 511.).--A correspondent asks for
the first part of an epigram which ends with the words "plurima, pauca,
nihil." He is referred to an epigram of Martial, which _I_ cannot find. But
I chance to remember two epigrams which were affixed to the statue of
Pasquin at Rome, in the year 1820, upon two Cardinals who were candidates
for the Popedom. They run as follows, and are smart enough to be worth
preserving:
"PASQUINALIA.
"Sit bonus, et fortasse pius--sed semper ineptus--
Vult, meditatur, agit, _plurima, pauca, nihil_."
"IN ALTERUM.
"Promittit, promissa negat, ploratque negata,
Hæc tria si junges, quis neget esse Petrum."