_Vox et præterea nihil_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--The allusion to this
proverb, quoted as if from the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, by "C.W.G."
(No. 16. p. 247.), may be found in Addison's _Spectator_, No. 61,
where it is as follows:--
"In short, one may say of the pun as the countryman described
his nightingale--that it is '_vox et præterea nihil_.'"
The origin of the proverb is still a desideratum.
Nathan.
_Vox et præterea nihil_ (No. 16. p 247.).--In a work entitled
_Proverbiorum et Sententiarum Persicarum Centuria_, a Levino Warnero,
published at Amsterdam, 1644, the XCVII. proverb, which is given in
the Persian character, is thus rendered in Latin,--
"Tympanum magnum edit clangorem, sed intus vacuum est."