•2"^ S. VIII. Oct. 8. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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together with Homer's lUad, AiJaxai Regis Arthuri.' 

 The words ia Crusius are ' AtSaxol Rathuri.' The homilies 

 of this writer are well known to the modern Greeks." 



A reference to the particular passage in Crusius 

 will oblige. 



It would appear from tbe above extract, that 

 the writer of it was disposed to question the ac- 

 curacy altogether of Warton respecting the exist- 

 ence of an Arthurian romance in the modern 

 Greek. If so, the reviewer himself needs to be 

 corrected. There is now in the library of the 

 Vatican a fragment of a poem, in a sort of heroic 

 metre, in that language, supposed to be of the 

 twelfth century, and in which the Knights of the 

 Round Table are the heroes. Arthur is called 

 ApTov^os, Gwalchmai, Taov\^avos, Gwenever Nrfe- 



ve^pa, Uther Pendragon Ovrepcc iravrpayopos. 



For an analysis of the contents of this curious 

 old romance, vide the late Rev. Thomas Price's 

 essay, " The Influence of Welsh Traditions on 

 the Literature of Europe." (^Literary Remains, 

 vol. i. pp. 270-71, 8vo., Llandovery, 1854.) j3. 



Temple. — How comes the word temple to be 

 appropriated in Roman Catholic countries to the 

 place in which Protestant worship is performed ? 

 I find, in a Histonj of the Republick of Holland of 

 1705, that the dissenting party in a petition pre- 

 sented to the Archduke Mathias, hope that they 

 may not be excluded from their temples and 

 councils (p. 34.) Fagus. 



Squaring the Circle. — Some time ago a friend 

 gave me the following. It is said to be cut on a 

 piece of wood about nine inches square fastened 

 against a pew in the church of Great Gidding in 

 Huntingdonshire. Besides being read forwards, 

 it may be read upwards and downwards and 

 backwards. 



As for the true interpretation thereof, that is 

 another question. P. IIutchikson. 



Aerostation. — Can any of the numerous readers 

 of " N. & Q.," who have given their attention to 

 this subject, inform me what is usually the aver- 

 age cost of material used in forming a balloon per 

 yard, and the cost per cubic foot of the hydrogen 

 gas used for its Inflation ? and whether any fabri- 



cant in London gives his attention specially to their 

 construction ? 



The accounts of the success or misfortune of 

 early voyageurs is a matter of reference, but it 

 would also be interesting to know what number 

 of fatal accidents have occurred to aeronauts 

 within the last teh years, and the causes of acci- 

 dent in each case, as far as may be known to your 

 correspondents ; also the greatest number of 

 ascents made by any one aeronaut. 



I believe no method of descending in a balloon 

 to the ground without letting off a portion of the 

 gas has yet been discovered. As the subject of 

 aerial navigation at present engages the attention 

 of many scientific men, possibly some recent ex- 

 periments may have been made not generally 

 known to the public. H. S. 



Mazena's Dog. — 



" Lumpentlmin, 

 " Das Brod ist theuer dieses Jahr, 

 Jedoch die schiinsten VVorte hat 

 Man noch umsonst — Besinge gar 

 Mazena's Hund, und friss dich satt ! " 

 H. Heine, Romanzero, Hamburg, 1851, p. 173. 



Who is Mazena ? Fitzhopkins. 



Paris. 



Thomas Maude. — I recently met with an in- 

 teresting poetical description of Wensleydale, in the 

 North Riding of Yorkshire, written by Thomas 

 Maude (York, 1816). He seems fully to have 

 appreciated his subject, and never to have tired 

 of that lovely and interesting valley. Was he a 

 native of those parts, or one of the ancient West- 

 moreland family of Maiide f * Mr. Maude lies 

 buried on the south side of the sweet village 

 churchyard of Wensley, hard by the murmuring 

 stream, the Ure, which his muse has celebrated. 

 A fitter sepulchre for a poet could not be found, 

 nor a more appropriate epitaph than that on his 

 tomb, selected from the " Deserted Village " of 

 Goldsmith, who loved nature like the historian of 

 the dale of Wensley : — 



" How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, 

 A youth of labour, with an age of ease : 

 Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd deca3'. 

 While resignation gently slopes the way." 



I said with the Chorus in Sophocles : — 



"... ivBa. /SpoTOtj Toi' ae!.iivr)<nov 

 Taiiov tvpiiiiv-a. Kadc^a." 



Ajax, 1167—8. 



OXONIENSIS. 



Duchess of Bolton. — Can any correspondent of 

 " jST. & Q." inform me what are the dates of the 

 birth and death of the once celebrated Lavinia 



[* Mr. W. M. Claude states, that Thomas Maude was 

 born in Downing Street, Westminster, in Maj', 1718 ; but 

 another correspondent saj-s that he was born at Hare- 

 wood in 1717. Cf. Gent Mag., June, 1841, p. 597. ; and 

 July, 1841. p. 36.— Ed.] 



