Libros_, Lond. 1660, fol., at p. 628, in v. 21., says only--

"Videantur quae ex Demosthene, Plutarcho, aliis, _Eruditi_ annotarunt."

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Matthew xiii. 14.:

"And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By
hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall
see, and shall not perceive."

This proverb seems to have been common to all ages and countries. It is of
frequent occurrence in the New Testament (Mark iv. 12.; viii. 18.; John
xii. 40.; Acts xxviii. 25.; Romans xi. 8.), and, as in Matthew, is referred
to Isaiah. But, in the Old Testament, there is earlier authority for its
use in Deuteronomy xxix. 4. It occurs also in Jeremiah v. 21.; in Ezekiel
xii. 2., and, with a somewhat different application, in the Psalms, cxv.
5.; cxxxv. 16.

That it was employed as an established proverb by Demosthenes seems to have
been generally overlooked. He says:

[Greek: Hoi men houtos horontes ta ton etuchekoton erga, hoste totes
paroimias, horontes me horan, kai akouontas me akouein. (Kata
Aristogeitonos,] A Taylor, Cantab. vol. ii. pp. 494-5.)

It is quoted, however, by Pricaeus (p. 97.), who also supplies exactly
corresponding passages from Maximus Tyrius (A.D. 190), Plutarch (A.D.
107-20), and Philo (A.D. 41). Of these, the last only can have been prior
to the publication of St. Matthew's Gospel, which Saxius places, at the
earliest, in the reign of Claudius.

Hugo Grotius has no reference to Demosthenes in his _Annotationes in Vet.
Test.,_ Vogel & Doderein, 1776; but cites Heraclitus the Ephesian, who,
according to Saxius, flourished in the year 502 B.C., and Aristides, who,
on the same authority, lived in the 126th year of the Christian era. Has
any other commentator besides Pricaeus alluded to the passage in
Demosthenes?

C. H. P.

Brighton, April 21.

* * * * *

THE HOUSE OF MAILLE.

The house of Maille (vide Lord Mahon's _Life of Conde_) contributed to the
Crusades one of its bravest champions. Can any of your numerous
contributors give me information as to the name and achievements of the
Crusader?

Claire Clemence de Maille, daughter of the Marechal Duke de Breze, and
niece of Richelieu, was married in 1641 to the Duc d'Enghien, afterwards
the Great Conde; and Lord Mahon, somewhere in his life of the hero, makes
mention of the princess as the "last of her family."

Claire Clemence had an only brother, wh