BURIENSIS.

_Ad Viscum._--It has not been unusual among antiquaries of a certain

class to cite the following Latin hexameter:--

"Ad viscum Druidæ! Druidæ clamare quotannis."

Two or three times I have seen it accompanied by a general reference to

one Ovidius. But having met with a copy of that author, to which an

index of all his words is annexed, I collect therefrom that the said

Ovidius never expressed himself to that effect.

I should wish to learn whether any body else ever did, and who; or

whether the knave who first coined that false reference also coined the

line.

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