Chester.
_"Populus vult decipi."_--
"Populus } {
Mundus } vult decipi { et decipiatur,
Vulgus } { decipiatur ergo."
Who was the author of the maxim? which is its correct form? and where is it
to be found? It seems to present another curious instance of our ignorance
of things with which we are familiar. I have put the question to a dozen
scholars, fellows of colleges, barristers, &c. &c., and none has been able
to give me an answer. One only _thinks_ it was a dictum of some Pope.