Ecclesfield, March 31. 1850.
_Quem Jupiter vult perdere priùs dementat_.--Malone, in a note in
_Boswell's Johnson_ (p. 718., Croker's last edition), says, that
a gentleman of Cambridge found this apophthegm in an edition of
Euripides (not named) as a translation of an iambic.
"[Greek: On Theos Delei hapolesai, pr_ot' hapophrenoi.]"
The Latin translation the Cambridge gentleman might have found in
Barnes; but where is the _Greek_, so different from that of Barnes, to
be found? It is much nearer to the Latin.