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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>d S. VIII. Nov. 6. '69. 



trusted to the hands of a learned Greek, yclept Maximus, 

 of CalliopoUs (VoKtii Catal. Libr. Ear. p. m. 662, 663.; 

 cf. Is. le Long, Biblioth. Select, p. 53., and Rumpius in 

 Commetdat. Crit. ad Libras iV. T., p. 367.) : that of the 

 Formularies to those of Hierotheus, the Archimandrite of 

 Cephalonia. And so it was, that, by command and at 

 the expense of the Dutch Republic, the New Testament 

 was published in modern Greek at Geneva, A. d. 1638.* 

 Some copies of it were instantly disposed of in such 

 countries where Greek Christians resided (J?cso/. of the 

 States Gener. Feb. 22, 1646), but the greater part for- 

 warded to Constantinople and consigned to the care of 

 the States' envoy in that place, in order to be at hand 

 when the first opportunity for distribution might offer. 

 And an offer very soon presented itself: for Hierotheus, 

 bent upon returning to his fatherland, had sent word 

 from England, where he had been for some time, re- 

 questing the Leyden Professors of Theology to acquaint 

 the States General of his fervent wish and desire to 

 spread the two translations we mentioned throughout 

 the regions of the East, wherever their High Mighti- 

 nesses would think fit. This he was prepared to do, 

 notwithstanding the danger he would be exposed to 

 from the Turkish government, and commending himself 

 to the protection of the Most High. The professors ac- 

 quitted themselves of their message, whereupon the 

 States General commanded them to send to Hierotheus 

 half the copies of the translated Formularies, which, also 

 at the cost of the Republic, had appeared in 1648 ; further- 

 more signifying to their minister at the Turkish court 

 to commit to Hierotheus, upon his arrival in Constanti- 

 nople, half of the impression of the New Testament, for 

 distribution : ' first to the patriarch, and then to the 

 other preachers and fautors of the Christian community 

 in those parts; trusting, that he would acquit himself 

 of this duty with the necessary discretion and faithful- 

 ness, as offering a gift so excellent and holy.' (JFJesoZ. 

 of the States Gener., April 3, and May 14, 1649.) I do 

 not know whether Hierotheus in reality accomplished his 

 nndertaking : but of his honesty a favourable testimony 

 appears in the account given of him by the Leyden pro- 

 fessors, and inserted in the Resolutions of the States 

 General. Of the modern Greek translation of the New 

 Testament, a reprint was published at London in 1703, 

 under the editorship of Serapheimus Arion of Mitj'lene ; 

 but, next year, this edition was solemnly cursed and 

 burnt in the patriarchal palace of Constantinople. I 

 niust suppose this was done because of its inaccuracy, for 

 I cannot find another reason, as Cyrillus, the patriarch 

 of Constantinople, himself had inaugurated the first edi- 

 tion with a commendatory preface. See Vogtii Catal. 

 Libr. Bar. U. U., according to whom, however, Sera- 

 pheimus should have been one of the translators of the 

 first edition of 1638, though neither this edition, of which 

 a copy is extant in the Town Library of Gouda, nor 

 Beijerus, to whom he refers (Arcana Biblioth. Dresdens. 

 p. m. 81 et 82), afford a single proof that Serapheimus 

 ever had a hand in it. The second edition was procured 

 by him, but Helladius brands it as inaccurate. A third 



[* A copy of this edition is noticed in Pettigrew's 

 Biblio. Sussex, ii. 469, ; " Novum Testamkntum. Neo- 

 Grajcum, Geneva. P. Chouet, 1638. 4", 2 vols. Cyril 

 Sucar, who is reported to have presented the Alexandrian 

 MS. to Charles I., promoted an edition of the New Testa- 

 ment in the vernacular Greek, undertaken by Maximus 

 Calliopolitus, at the instance of Cornelius Haga, the 

 Dutch ambassador at Constantinople, and printed at 

 Geneva in 1638, in 4°. To this edition he wrote a pre- 

 face, in which he vindicates the propriety of translating 

 the Scriptures into the vulgar tongues, and the right of 

 all persons to read them."— Ed,] 



edition was published at Halle by Anastasius Michael of 

 Macedonia, a.d. 1710. 



" The modern Greek Formularies of the Dutch Re- 

 formed Church appeared at Lej'den in 1648. They are in 

 4to. See J. C. Koechei', Catechetische Histor. der Gereform. 

 Kcrke, p. 286. This translation, of which the Gouda 

 Library possesses a copy, is very rare, and unknown to 

 most of the learned. Cf. Te Water, Tweede Eeuwgetyde 

 der Geloofsbelyd., p. 164." 



Translated from Byvoegsels en Aanmerkingen 

 voor het Twaalfde Deel der Vaderlandsche Historie 

 van Jan Wagenaar, door Mr. H. van Wyn, Mr. 

 N. C. LambrecJdsen, Mr. Ant. Martini, E. M. 

 Engelberts en Anderen. Te Amsterdam, by Jo- 

 hannes Allart, 1793, p. 77. sqq. 



J. H. VAN Lbnnbp. 

 Manpadt House, near Haarlem, 

 Sept. 23, 1859. 



PBOBLEM IN BHTME. 



I found the following in the mathematical ques- 

 tions of a defunct periodical {Literarium, July 15, 

 1857), and think it worthy of preservation. The 

 problem of " Bacchus and Silenus" has been piven 

 among the equation-conundrums in books of al- 

 gebra for a very long time. It may serve as a 

 companion to the problem in Vyse's Arithmetic : 

 " When first the marriage-knot was tied," &c. 



Arithmetical Books, p. 81. 

 A. De Morgan. 



" Deab Fred, — As you're so clever all at once at an 

 equation. 

 And think that you are capable of No. 44.,* 

 Just trj' your hand at this, 'twill require consideration, 

 And so I have no doubt you'll consider it — a bore. 

 " In a pleasant vale of Thessalj', as odorous and green as 

 This valley of the Thames, where I sit and scribble 

 now. 

 Under ruddy-fruited ash-trees slept the jolly god 

 Silenus ; 

 The coronal of ivy-leaves had fallen fVora his brow. 



" Beside him was a wine- cask which half-a-dozen satyrs 

 Had brought him down — to breakfast as soon as he 

 should wake ; 

 With pickled anchovies in jars, and figs on rustic plat- 

 ters — 

 For tea and toast and new-laid eggs Silenus wouldn't 

 take. 



" Came dancing down the hill-side young Bacchus brisk 

 and nimble, 

 And a troop of hederigerae f ran joyously behind ; 

 They blew shrill pipes vivaciously — they crashed the 

 brazen cymbal, 

 Their chesnut tresses fluttered as they met the merry 

 wind. 



" But they didn't wake Silenus, so young Bacchus took 

 to drinking — 

 He tapped his tutor's barrel, and he emptied many a 

 bowl: 

 If Silenus 'stead of Bacchus had been at it, I am thinking, 

 For half as long again, he'd finished up the whole. 



* Vide Colenso's Algebra, 

 t Catullus. 



