My difficulty here has been to find sufficient instances of the use of brass in ancient times for these purposes. Brass was the material on which laws, &c. were commonly registered: but the fasti at present discovered, as far as I can learn, are engraven on marble; as, for instance, the Fasti Capitolini, discovered in the Roman Forum in 1547, and the fragments afterwards brought to light in 1817, 1818.
Isidore of Hispola, in the eighth century, in hisOrigines, gives this derivation:
"Æra singulorum annorum constituta est a Cæsare Augusto, quando primum censum exegit. Dicta autem Æra ex eo, quod omnis orbis æs reddere professus est reipublicæ."
I quote on the authority of Facciolati, who adds that others derive the word from the lettersA.ER.A., "annus erat Augusti." These are not at all satisfactory; and I shall be glad if you will allow me to throw in my derivation as "being worth what it will fetch."
THEOPHYLACT.
Koch says, in note 5 to the Introduction of hisRevolution of Europe, that "æra" is derived from the initials of the phrase "Anno erat regnante Augusto;" and was first used among the Spaniards, who dated from the renewal of the second triumvirate even down to the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries.
HD.
—C. H. asks whether it be true that hound loses his scent—
"If he fele swetness of þeflouris."
"If he fele swetness of þeflouris."
A few years ago a master of fox-hounds in the New Forest excused some bad sport in March thus "The hounds can't hunt for those d—d stinking violets!" rather to the amusement of some of his field.
G. N.
—A SUBSCRIBERseems to imply that the Monk and Cromwell families intermarried. In Chauncy'sHertfordshire, vol. i. p. 582. of the new edition, but which was originally printed in 1700, it is stated, that the well-known manor of Theobalds was granted by Charles II. to the great Monk in tail male; on the death of his son, Duke Christopher, it reverted to the crown; and that King William, by letters patent of the 4th of April, 1689, gave it to William Bentinck, who was created Earl of Portland. It must have come therefore, to the Cromwells by intermarriage either with Bentinck, which, I believe, was not the case, or with some subsequent purchasers of the manor. Theobalds originally belonged to Sir Robert Cecil, of whom James I. obtained it in exchange for Hatfield. It was given as reward for restoring the Stuarts to Monk, and to Bentinck for assisting again to expel them.
J. H. L.
—For the information of your correspondentΓ.I send the following, which I believe to be the original authority for the above saying. It is taken from the celebrated work of Horne Tooke's, entitledDiversions of Purley, which, though highly interesting as a treasury of philological information, contains this among other absurd attempts to base moral conclusions on the foundation of etymology:—
"Truthis the third person singular of the indicativetrow. It was formerly writtentroweth,trowth,trouth, andtroth. And it means (aliquid, anything, something) that which onetroweth, i.e. thinketh, or firmly believeth."
Dugald Stewart, in hisPhilosophical Essays, justly observes regarding the principle involved in such speculations, that "if it were admitted as sound, it would completely undermine the foundations both of logic and of ethics."
TYRO.
Dublin.
—In reply to a question you attribute the famous saying concerning the murder of the Duc D'Enghien to Talleyrand.
If you will refer to p. 266. vol. i. of Fouché'sMemoirs, 2nd edition, 1825, C. Knight, you will find that he claims the saying to himself:
"I was not the person who hesitated to express himself with the least restraint respecting the violence against the rights of nations and of humanity. 'It is more than a crime, it is a political fault.' I said words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others."
J. W.
Walsall.
In matters of rumour different people hear different things. I never heard the words "c'estoit pire qu'un crime, c'estoit une faute," ascribed to any one but Fouché of Nantes. I have understood that the late Prince of Condé would not hold any intercourse with the Prince de Talleyrand, or with the Court when he was present officiating as Grand Chamberlain of France, owing to his full conviction of that minister's privity to the murder of his son. But how is that consistent with Talleyrand's more than condemning, and even ridiculing the action?
A. N.
—Merely as matter of information, permit me to refer your correspondent A. A. D. to the notes of Glareanus and Drakenborch on the first linesof Livy's preface, and to the "variorum" commentators on the first line of Tacitus'Annals("Urbem Romanam ad principio reges habuere"), for a collection of examples of the occurrence of verse in prose compositions.
THEODOREALOISBUCKLEY.
—Probably the melodramatic spectacle mentioned by MR. HASKINSwas derived from a Spanish book, of which I possess an English translation, bearing the following title:—
"A Relation of the First Voyages and Discoveries made by the Spaniards in America, with an Account of their unparalleled Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. Together with the Propositions offered to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West Indies. By Don Bartholomew de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, who was an Eye-witness of their Cruelties. Illustrated with Cuts. London, printed for Daniel Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple Bar, and Andrew Bell at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks Market, 1699." 8vo. pp. 248.
The "cuts" are twenty-two in number, on two fly-sheets, and represent torturing death in the most horrible variety.
A MS. note on a fly-leaf, in the handwriting of Mr. Bowdler of Bath, says, "This book is taken out of the fourth part of Purchas'sPilgrims, fol. 1569."
E. WARING.
Hotwells, Clifton.
—Bishop Jeremy Taylorseems to ascribe the above oft-quoted words to theRoman Pontifical:—
"It is lawful to desire a Bishoprick; neither can the unwillingness to accept it be, in a prudent account, adjudged the aptest disposition to receive it (especially if done in ceremony—(in Pontifical. Rom.)—just in the instant of their entertainment of it, and possibly after a long ambition.)"—Life of Christ, Ad Sect. IX. Part I. 2.;Considerations upon the Baptism of Jesus, p. 96. Lond. 1702. Fol.
On more occasions than one I have hunted Roman Pontificals in vain, but I may have been unfortunate in the editions to which I had access.
It cannot at all events have descended from remote antiquity, for "episcopari" is a comparatively modern word.
St. Bernard uses it in his 272ndEpistle; but the Benedictine editors speak of it as an "exotic."
RT.
Warmington.
—The assertion of your correspondent A. B. R. I have met with before, but forget where: viz. that the proper designation of the château in question isGoumont, and thatHougoumontis only a corruption ofChâteau Goumont.
This may be the case; but the Duke must not be charged with the corruption, for I have now before me a map of the Département de la Dyle, published "l'An 8 de la République Française, à Bruxelles, &c., par Ph. J. Maillart et Sœur," &c., in which the place is distinctly calledHougoumont.
A. C. M.
Exeter.
—I have found two early, but unauthenticated, instances of the use of this saying, in a note by J. Scaliger on thePriapeia, sive Diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus:—
"Simplicius multo est, ——, latinè Dicere, quid faciam? crassa Minervæ mea est."Carmen, ii. 9, 10.
"Simplicius multo est, ——, latinè Dicere, quid faciam? crassa Minervæ mea est."
Carmen, ii. 9, 10.
"Ἄγροικός εἰμι· τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγω;" Aristophanes.—"Unde jocus maximi Principis, Philippi Macedonis. Quum ii, qui prodiderant Olynthum Philippo, conquestum et expostulatum ad ipsum venissent, quod injuriosè nimis vocarentur proditores ab aliis Macedonibus:οἱ Μακεδόνες, inquit,ἀμαθεῖς καὶ ἄγροικοί εἰσι· τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγουσι."—J. Scaliger.
For which note see the "Priapeia," &c., at the end of an edition of Petronius Arbiter, entitled,Titi Petronii Arbitri Equitis Romani Satyricon. Concinnante Michaele Hadrianide. Amstelodami. Typis Ioannis Blaeu. M.DC.LXIX.
As I cannot at this moment refer to any good verbal index to Aristophanes, I cannot ascertain in what part of his works Scaliger's quotation is to be found. Burton, in his preface to theAnatomy of Melancholy("Democritus Junior to the Reader"), repeats the saying twice,i.e.in Latin and English, and presents it, moreover, in an entirely new form:
"I amaquæ potor, drink no wine at all, which so much improves our modern wits; a loose, plain, rude writer,ficum voco ficum, et ligonem ligonem, and as free as loose;idem calamo quod in mente: I call a spade a spade;animis hæc scribo, non auribus, I respect matter, not words," &c.—Democritus Jr. to the Reader, Burton'sAnatomy of Melancholy, Blake,MDCCCXXXVI.one vol. 8vo. p. 11.
C. FORBES.
Temple.
—Your correspondent H. B. C. states that the earliest use he has met with of this phrase is in Dean Swift'sPolite Conversation, written, as appears by the preface, about 1731; but he will find, in Dampier'sVoyages, the same phrase in use in 1686, or perhaps earlier: not having the work itself at hand, I cannot refer him to the passage, but he will find it quoted in theUnited Service Journalfor 1837, Part III. p. 11.
J. S. WARDEN.
Balica, Oct. 1851.
—With reference to the different notices that have appearedin your pages respecting effigies bearing the collar of SS, and especially in compliance with the desire expressed by MR. E. FOSS, that information should be sent to you of any effigy that might be met with having this distinction, I beg to state that in the church of St. Mary, Ruabon, Denbighshire, there is a finely executed high tomb of alabaster, bearing the effigies of "John ap Ellis Eyton" and of his lady "Elizabeth Chalfrey Ellis Eyton;" the former deceasedA.D.1524, and the latterA.D.1527. The knight wears the collar of SS, to which is suspended a rose-shaped ornament, and is stated to have been at the battle of Bosworth, and, for his services on that day, to have been granted by Henry VII. what lands he chose. The knight's gauntlets lie together on his right side, and his feet rest against a lion.
G. J. R. G.
Pen-y-lau, Ruabon.
—In reference to the wordἀκρὶς, which has given rise to so much discussion in your very valuable periodical, may I be permitted to observe that the pâtois spoken in this town (Nice = Nizza = Nicæa, founded by the Phocæans, expelled their Asian abode by Harpagus; Strabo, l. 4. p. 184.; Herod. i. 163.) bears many traces of its Greek origin. The tree which answers to the "locust" is called by the peasantryacroòb; and in order that you, or any of your correspondents, may observe its similarity in every point to the Eastern tree, I have transmitted a packet of its fruit to your office. I do not know whether Grimm's law would authorise the antithesis of adfor apsound, but every student of Romaic will allow the tendency thatiandosounds have for interchanging. This would giveacreed,ακρίδ, the root ofἀκρὶς.
NICÆENSIS.
—If your correspondent J. S. WOODwill refer to Todd'sJohnson's Dictionary, he will find the derivation of the word thus—
"THEODOLITE(Fr. fromθεῶ, Gr., contracted ofθεάω, orθεάομαι, to observe; andδολιχὸς, long. See Morin,Fr. and Gr. Etym. Dict.), a mathematical instrument for taking heights and distances."
HENRYWILKINSON.
Brompton, Nov. 15. 1851.
—Your correspondent MR. C. FORBESappears anxious to know where Montaigne speaks of "a posie of other men's flowers." I believe that there is an error in confining Montaigne's idea thus exclusively to poetry, for I presume the passage sought for is what I shall now quote; but if so, it applies generally to any borrowed thought from an author embellished by another:
"La vérité et la raison sont communes à un chascun, et ne sont plus à celui qui les adictes premièrement, qu'à qui les dict aprez: ce n'est non plus selon Platon que selon moy, puisque luy et moy l'entendons, et veoyons de mesme.Les abeilles pillotent deça delà les fleurs; mais elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny mariolaine; ainsi les pièces empruntées d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien, à scavoir son jugement," &c.—Essays, livre i. chap. 25.
I hope that this will satisfactorily answer your correspondent's inquiry.
J. R.
—On the subject ofanagrams, lately adverted to by your correspondents, I not long since referred to that which showed that the name ofVoltaire, as adduced by me in theGentleman's Magazinea few years back, instead of being, as asserted by Lord Brougham and others, that of an estate, was in fact the anagram of his family patronymic, with the adjunct of l. j., or junior (le jeune), to distinguish him from his elder brother. We see similarly the President of the French National Assembly uniformly called "Dupin l'aîné"; and his brother Charles, until created a Baron, always "Dupin le jeune." Observing, therefore, that Voltaire was in reality Arouet le jeune, or, as he signed it, Arouet l. j., and that the two letters u and j were, until distinguished by the Elzevir, indiscriminately written v and i, the anagram will thus be clearly proved: every letter, though transposed, being equally in both:—
A R O V E T L J1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A R O V E T L J
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
V O L T A I R E4 3 7 6 1 8 2 5
V O L T A I R E
4 3 7 6 1 8 2 5
Although, as above mentioned, this unquestionable fact has already appeared in another publication, and, indeed, likewise in theDublin Reviewfor June 1845 (both from me), yet the old mis-statement of this celebrated personage's biographers still continued to be asserted, as it has been in your own pages. This is my motive for now addressing you on the matter. Voltaire, I may add, was a little partial to his paternal name. To the Abbé Moussinot, his Parisian agent, he thus wrote on the 17th of May, 1741:
"Je vous ai envoyé ma signature, dans laquelle j'ai oublié le nom d'Arouet, que j'oublie assez volontiers."
And, on another occasion:
"Je vous renvoie d'autres parchemins, où se trouve ce nom, malgré le peu de cas que j'en fais."
Mixing with the higher classes of society, he wished, like them, to be known by a territorial possession, and framed the name now resounding through the world, prefixing to it the nobiliary particle,De. His elder brother was named Armond, whose death preceded that of the younger by thirty-seven years, 1741-1778; both were unmarried. Numerous, and curious too, are the anagrams which my memory could furnish me.
J. R.
—The decipherer of these inscriptions was the late Professor Beer of Berlin. T. D. will find his alphabet, together with that of the Himyaritic inscriptions, and others which resemble them, in Dr. (John) Wilson'sLands of the Bible.
E. H. D. D.
—A survey of the lordships of Bromfield and Yale (within the former of which this town is situated), made by Norden about the year 1620 for Charles I., then Prince of Wales, has been preserved in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum. The descriptive part is in Latin; but before the names of the places and streets in this town the French articleleis used, as Le highe street, Le hope street, Le church street, Le beast market, Le greene. The larger part of this Le greene (now called "The Green") has still grass growing upon it; and there is no tradition that either a granary or corn-mill was ever situated there.
☞
Wrexham.
—In the parish church of Limington, Somerset, is a figure of a cross-legged knight, with his hand on the hilt of his sword, as if about to draw it. The date of the foundation of the chantry in which he lies is said to be 1329, and the mouldings and windows appear to testify its correctness.
ב.
—Your correspondent, the Rev. T. R. BROWN, is right in acquiescing in the ordinary derivation ofἀδελφὸςfromἀandδέλφυς, but wrong, as I think, in endeavouring to find cognate forms in the Indo-Germanic languages. The fact is, that the word is solely and peculiarly Greek. The Sanscrit word for brother is, as every body knows,bhratri(Latin,frater, &c.); and that this form was not entirely unknown to the Hellenic races, is evidenced by their use ofφράτρα, orφράτρη, in various senses, all of which may easily be reduced to the one common idea of brotherhood. How it happened that the wordφρατὴρwas lost in Greek, andἀδελφὸςsubstituted, we think we can satisfactorily explain, and, if so, the elucidation will make clearer an interesting point in Greek manners. It appears that they, in common with some Eastern nations, looked upon the relationship between brothers of the same mother as much closer in blood than that in which the brothers were related through the father alone; and hence the well-known law forbiddingἀδελφοὶ ὁμομητρίοιaloneto marry. In the same manner we find Abraham (Gen. xx. 12.) using a similar excuse for marrying Sarah:
"And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife."
It is not difficult, therefore, to understand how this notion prevailing among the Greeks, might lead them to frame a new word fromἀandδέλφυς, to express the uterine relation of brothers, which would soon in common use supplant the older Indo-German termφρατὴρ. For further reasons which may have influenced the dropping of the wordφρατὴρ, I would refer to a learned article on "Comparative Philology" in the last number of theEdinburgh Review, by Dr. Max Müller.
With regard to the derivations suggested by MR. BROWNfrom the Hebrew, Arabic, &c., I think I am justified in laying down as a rule that no apparent similarity between words in the Semitic and Asian families can be used to establish a real identity, the two classes of language being radically and fundamentally distinct.
J. B.
—Meeting recently with a person who, although illiterate, is somewhat rich in oral tradition and local folk lore, I inquired if he had ever seen such a thing as that described by MR. LAWRENCE. He replied that he had not, but that he had frequently heard of these "stocks," as he called them, and that he believed they were used in "earlier days" for the purpose of inflictingpenanceupon those parishioners who absented themselves from mass for any lengthened period. My informant illustrated his explanation with a "traditionary" anecdote (too fabulous to trouble you with), which had been the means of imparting the above to him. Whether correct or not, however, I must leave others to determine.
J. B. COLMAN.
[Will our correspondent favour us with the tradition to which he refers?]
—The accounts given of Blacklow and his religious heresy merely excite curiosity. Will no one furnish some brief particulars of him and his proceedings? For what was Peter Talbot famous, and where may his history be read?
E. A. M.
—A MEMBER OF THESOCIETY OFFRIENDS(Vol. iv., p. 412.) has answered my Query respecting this Bible in a manner not very satisfactory. He says "no committee was ever appointed by the Society of Friends" to publish such a Bible, and that the Society adopt the English authorised version only. The authority from which I quoted did not say that the committee had been appointed by the Society of Friends, or that the object of the proposed publication was to supersede the version authorised by the Church, which (as is well known) is adopted, as your correspondent states, by the Society. What she states is this:—That about four years ago a Committee of Friends intended to publish such an edition of the Bible, for daily perusal in Friends' families; and that a prospectus was printed, in which it was promised that every passage of the Bible would be carefully expungedwhich was unfit for reading aloud, and also those which might be called dangerous, which the unlearned and unstable might wrest to their own destruction.
My Query was, whether such a Bible was ever published, and whether any of your correspondents could furnish a copy of the prospectus alluded to? It is no answer to this to say, that the committee who proposed to publish this Bible were not appointed by the Society of Friends, and that the Friends applied to by your correspondent knew nothing of the project. The authoress of the work I quoted has since been publicly named, and if this query should meet her eye, perhaps she may be able to give me the information I require. It is the more incumbent upon her to do so, as the tone of your correspondent is evidently intended to throw a doubt upon her veracity.
T.
—An ingenious friend has suggested to me the following explanation of this passage:Ἄκουε τὴν ἄλλην μερίδα. It is rendered almost certain by the words that come immediately after, in the line quoted by C. W. G.,i.e."audi alteram partem." I am unable, however, to point out the source from which the Greek motto was derived. Perhaps some of your readers will solve this ulterior question.
C. H.
What the Laureate of the day, inspired by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, sang in 1748,—
"Th' Almighty hand, which first her shores securedWith rolling oceans, and with rocks immured,Which spread her plains, and bade her flocks increase,Designed Britannia for the Land of Peace;Where Commerce only should exert her sway,And musing Science trim th' unfading bay"—
"Th' Almighty hand, which first her shores secured
With rolling oceans, and with rocks immured,
Which spread her plains, and bade her flocks increase,
Designed Britannia for the Land of Peace;
Where Commerce only should exert her sway,
And musing Science trim th' unfading bay"—
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