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ns thus: '14th Foot, John Whitelocke, Gent., to be Ensign _vice_ Day."--I trust some reader of "N. & Q." will furnish us with the dates of the birth and death of Lieut.-General Whitelocke, specifying when they took place, as desired by G. L. S., with an abridgment of deficient particulars in his history. D. N."] _Greek Epigram._--In the _Bath Chronicle_ of the 10th of November last, I find the following advertisement: "The Clergyman of a Town Parish, in which are several crippled persons, at present unable to attend divine worship, will feel very grateful to any gentleman or lady who will give him an old Bath chair for the use of these poor people; two blind men having offered, in this case, charitably to convey their crippled neighbours regularly to the house of God." Surely this arrangement is not a new idea, and there is, if I mistake not, a Greek epigram that records its success in practice several hundred years ago. Can any of your readers, whose Greek is less faded than mine, refer me to the epigram? GEO. E. FRERE. [Probably the following epigram is the one floating in the faded memory of our correspondent: [Greek: PHILIPPOU, hoi de ISIDOROU.] [Greek: Peros ho men guiois, ho d' ar' ommasin; amphoteroi de] [Greek: Eis hautous to tuches endees eranisan,] [Greek: Tuphlos gar lipoguion epomadion baros airon,] [Greek: Tais keinou phonais atrapon orthobatei,] [Greek: Panta de taut' edidaxe pikre pantolmos ananke,] [Greek: Allelois merisai toullipes eis eleon.] _Anthologia, in usum Scholae Westmonast._: Oxon. 1724, p. 58.] _Translations from Aeschylus._--Whose translation of the tragedies of Aeschylus is that which accompanies Flaxman's compositions from the same? I ought to state that there is merely a line or two under each plate, to explain the subject of each composition, and that my copy is the unreduced size. H. Kingston-on-Thames. [The lines are taken from N. Potter's translation of the Tragedies of Aeschylus, 4to., 1777.] _Prince Memnon's Sister._--Who was Prince Memnon's sister, alluded to by Milton in _Il Penseroso_? J. W. T. Dewsbury. [Dunster has the following note on this line:--"Prince Memnon's sister; that is, an Ethiopian princess, or sable beauty. Memnon, king of Ethiopia, being an auxiliary of the Trojans, was slain
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