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_Ejusdem Farinæ_ (Vol. iii., p. 278.).--This phrase was used in a
disparaging sense long before the time of the "scholastic doctors and
casuists of the middle ages," as may appear from Persius, v. 115-117.,
where he is showing that an elevation in rank does not necessarily
produce a more elevated tone of mind; and says to an imaginary upstart:
"Sin tu, cum fueris _nostræ_ paulò antè _farinæ_,
Pelliculam veterem retines, et fronte politus
Astutam vapido servas sub pectore vulpem," &c.
It is needless to add that the metaphor is taken from loaves made from
the "_same batch_" of flour, where, if one be bad, all the others must
be equally so.
J. EASTWOOD.
Ecclesfield Hall.