Chester.
_Passage in Watson_ (Vol. viii., p. 587.).--Your correspondent G. asks,
whence Bishop Watson took the passage:
"Scire ubi aliquid invenire posses, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis
est."
In the account of conference between Spalato and Bishop Overall, preserved
in Gutch's _Collectanea Curiosa_, and printed in the Anglo-Catholic
Library, Cosin's _Works_, vol. iv. p. 470., the same sentiment is thus
expressed:
"By keeping Bishop Overall's library, he (Cosin) began to learn,
'Quanta pars eruditionis erat bonos nosse auctores;' which was the
saying of Joseph Scaliger."
Can any of your correspondents trace the words in the writings of Scaliger?