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dan, and Gruffjdd Lloyd quarterly, to which was 

 added an escutcheon of pretence quartering the 

 ensigns of Warburton of Winnington, for his 

 wife, Susannah, daughter and heir of Lieutenant- 

 General Hugh Warbarton of Winnington, co. 

 Chester, viz, Warbarton, Winnington, Williams 

 and Griffith. Can the Hodges mentioned by your 

 correspondent be related to the " Sir Nathaniel 

 Hodges of Bednall Green, Middlesex," quoted by 

 Gwillim, whose arms he gives (impaling those of 

 Buttall), viz. " 1. or, 3 crescents, sa. : on a canton, 

 of the last, a ducal coronet, ppr. for Hodges. 2. 

 vert, 3 lioncels rampant, arg. armed and lan- 

 gued gu., for Buttall." There are no arms given 

 in Burke's ExtinctBaronets for Sir Joseph Hodges, 

 F.R.S. of Middlesex, who died unmarried 1722, 

 to whom your correspondent refers, and of whose 

 family no further account is given. 



Henrt W. S. Taylor. 

 Hesiod v. Milton (2"* S. x. 347.) — Un- 

 doubtedly Heslod had been beforehand with 

 Milton in the idea of a band of unseen spiritual 

 guardians walking the earth. See "Epywv km. 

 Hutpwi', i. 120. : — 



AvTap eTret Kev tovto yeVos Kara yaia KoXv^pe, 

 Tol fiiv Saifj.ove'S eieri, Aibs fieydKov Sta /SouAay, 

 'E<r6Aoi, eTTixOovtOi, tpvKojcei OvrjTwv avOpuiTruiv ' 

 Oi pa (f)uAacrcroui7t re SiKas tal crxeVAia epya, 

 'Hepa ecro'd/jiei'ot, TrdvTr) <|)OiTc3fT6S en alav, 

 HAouToSoTot' Kal TOUTO •ye'pas paaiXri'iov e<rxov. 



Of which, perhaps, the following translation 

 might be accepted : — 



•" But after this race had gone by, and under the earth 

 were departed, 

 Its Gods they -were made to become, by omnipotent 



Jupiter's counsel. 

 Gracious, and dwelling on earth, and guardians of 



perishing mortals : 

 Alike in their vigilance Set upon good deeds, and also 



on bad deeds, 

 Enveloped in darkness, they still on the earth are 



everywhere walking, 

 The givers of riches ; and thus they exercise royalty's 

 functions." 



C. W. Bingham. 

 The passage referred to is in Hesiod's Worki 

 and Days, i, 120. &c., thus translated by Cooke (i. 

 174. &c.): — 



" Aerial spirits, by great Jove designed, 

 To be on earth the guardians of mankind ; 

 Invisible to mortal eyes they go. 

 And mark our actions, good or bad, below ; 

 The immortal spies with watchful care preside, 

 And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide." 



W. P. 

 The similarity of sentiment between these two 

 poets, in the passage quoted by David Gam, is 

 pointed out by Dr. JSTewton in his Paradise Lost, 

 and the reference there given to Hesiod is Book 

 I. 120—125., which contains, however, only the 

 germ of Milton's thought. " It seems," says the 

 Doctor, " to be an imitation and improvement of 

 old Hesiod's notion of good geniuses, the guardians 



of mortal men clothed with air, wandering every- 

 where through the earth." (Vide Paradise Lost, 

 by Thomas Newton, D.D., 2nd ed. 1750, vol. i. p. 

 312.) Henrt AV. S. Tavlob. 



Golden Verses op the Pythagoreans (2'"' S. 

 X. 369.) — For the "ETrrjxpwtra of the Pythagoreans, 

 see Brandis, Geschichte des Griech. Rom. Philo- 

 sophie (p. 498.). Also, according to Tenneman's 

 Manual of Philosophy (Talboys, Oxford, 1832), 

 the following works contain them : — 



" Pythagorse Aurea Carmina, ed. Cour. Rittershusius, 

 Alta, 1610."_ 



" Sententiosa vetustissimorum Gnomicorum Opera, torn, 

 i. ed. Glandorf, Lips. 1776." 



" Brunck's Collection." 



Apropos of the subject, Sidney Smith discovers 

 a strong analogy between the precepts of Pytha- 

 goras and ]\Irs. Trimmer ; both think that a son 

 ought to obey his father, and both are clear that a 

 good man is better than a bad one ! 



For some important observations on the Pytha- 

 gorean fragments, see Hamilton's Discussions on 

 Philosophy (p. 138. and note), London, 1852. 



F. S. 



G. will find these verses in Aldi, Rvdimcnta 

 Grammatices Latince Lingua, Venetiis (Aldus), 

 1501, 4to. (Grenville Cat., Parti, p. 18.); Las- 

 caris, De Ocio Parlibus Orationis, etc, Venetiis 

 apud Aldum, 1512, 4to. (Grenville Cat, Part i. 

 p. 393.) ; Cehetis Tabula, Lovanii, apud T. Mar- 

 tinum s. a. 4to. (Grenville Cat., Part ii. p. 99.) ; 

 Hesiodus, .apud Petrum Brubachium, 1549, 16'mo. 

 (Grenville Cat, Part u. p. 238.) 



The above may all be seen at the British Mu- 

 seum. These verses are also to be found in vari- 

 ous editions of the Minor Greek Poets, published 

 in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nine- 

 teenth centuries. Several editions are mentioned 

 m'Brvin&t's Manual: see Pythagoras. F. H. 



Cockpennt (2"^ S. X. 387.) — An Athenian 

 coin once bore the figure of a cock with a palm, 

 but this was not the cockpenny, for the origin of 

 which J. K. K. Inquires. Your correspondent is 

 well aware that cockfighting and cockthrowing 

 were among the popular national sports that pre- 

 vailed at Shrovetide. The youths of English and 

 Scotch schools formerly enjoyed this semi-bar- 

 barous pastime under the eye and presidency of 

 the master, who received the runaway cocks as his 

 perquisite. The numismatic relic mentioned by 

 J. K. K. has reference no doubt to this, or some 

 similar custom, but whether the " cockpenny " la 

 a payment still retained in lieu of an anciently 

 claimed perquisite does not appear. The masters 

 of the Lancaster, and several other county gram- 

 mar schools, still derive, as stated by your corre- 

 spondent, a portion of their salaries from the 

 gratuity so called, and up to a recent period, 

 according to Brand, some schools in Cumberland 



