Eye, March 24. 1851.
_The Frozen Horn_ (Vol. iii., p. 282.).--The story of the frozen and
thawed words in Rabelais' _Pantagruel_, book iv. c. 55. and 56., is
borrowed from a passage in Plutarch's _Morals_, vol. vi. p. 293.,
Leipsic, Reiske's edition. I beg to subjoin the Latin translation of
this fable of so remote a date:
"Joco enim Antiphanes dixit, in urbe quadam voces illico frigore
loci congelare, ac per æstatem, gelu soluto, demum exaudiri, quæ
dicta erant hyeme; ita ille quæ adolescentes e Platone
audivissent, aiebat, plerosque vix tandem ingravescente ætate
intelligere."