_Ancient Wood Engraving of the Picture of Cebes_ (Vol. iii., pp. 277.
436.).--Your correspondent THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT having been informed
respecting the _subject_ of his wood-cut, may yet be further satisfied
to know its date, and where it is to be found. It occurs in a Latin
version of the _Pinax_, with a commentary by Justus Velsius, printed in
4to., at Lyons? (Lugduni) in 1551. The title runs thus: _Justi Velseri
Hagani, in Cebetis Thebani Tabulam Commentariorum Libri Sex, Totius
Moralis Philosophiæ Thesaurus._ The _Pinax_ commonly accompanies that
valuable little manual the _Enchiridion_ of Epictetus, of which that
excellent man John Evelyn, in a letter to Lord Cornbury, thus speaks:
"Besides the Divine precepts, I could never receive anything from
Philosophy that was able to add a graine to my courage upon the
intellectual assaults like that _Enchiridion_ and little weapon of
Epictetus: 'Nunquam te quicquam perdidisse dicito, sed
reddidisse,' says he: 'Filius obijt? redditus est.' It is in his
15th chapter. You cannot imagine what that little target will
encounter. _I never go abroad without it in my pocket._ What an
incomparable guard is that: [Greek: ta de ouk eph' hêmin], cap.
i., where he discourses of the things which _are_, and _are not_
in our power. I know, my Lord, you employ your retirements nobly;
weare this defensive for my sake,--I had almost said this
_Christian Office_."