Saffron-Walden.
_Story of the Greek referred to by Jeremy Taylor_ (Vol. iv., pp. 208.
262. 326.).--It may interest those correspondents of "N. & Q." who, in
answer to my Query on the above point, have given references to similar
stories in _Don Quixote_, and the life of St. Nicholas in the _Legenda
Aurea_, to learn that I have lately traced the story to its real source,
on which probably the parallel versions in question were based. The name
of the Greek was Archetimus of Erythræa; that of the victim of the
artifice Cydias of Tenedos. The story is given at length in the _Loci
Communes J. Stobæi, Antonii Melissæ, et Maximi Monachi_, cura Gesner,
Serm. cxvi. p. 362. ed. fol. Francof. 1581.