Philadelphia.
_"Corruptio optimi," &c._--What is the origin or earliest use of the
saying, "Corruptio optimi est, al. fit, pessima," in its present form? I
state it in this way, because I am aware of its having been referred to
Aristotle's remarks on the different forms of government. The old Latin
translation however, does not contain the expression, and I have not traced
it farther back than to writers of the seventeenth century,--to Jeremy
Taylor, for instance.