Greenock.
[Todd and Webster derive it from the Latin _conger_ or _congrus_; Gr.
[Greek: gongros], formed of [Greek: grao], to eat, the fish being very
voracious; It. _gongro_; Fr. _congre_.]
_"Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum tibi."_--This is, I think, the
ordinary form of a saying cited somewhere by Goldsmith, who calls it "so
trite a quotation that it almost demands an apology to repeat it." Whence
comes it originally? I am unable to give the exact reference to the passage
in Goldsmith, but in his _Citizen of the World_, letter 53rd, he has a
cognate idea:
"As in common conversation the best way to make the audience laugh is
by first laughing yourself, so in writing," &c.