Ut ni me lachrymae rigent perennes, Totus in tenues eam favillas.

It has been universally asserted by his biographers that he studied no foreign language, but direct proof to the contrary exists in a copy of Patrick's Latin translation of Homer, printed in 1742, the fly-leaf of a copy of which bears, in a school-boy hand, the inscription: "Hunc mihi quaeso (bone Vir) Libellum Redde, si forsan tenues repertum

[5608] "Cur in penates rarius tenues subit, Haec delicatas eligens pestis domus, Mediumque sanos vulgus affectuss tenet?" &c.