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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Not. 3. 1855. 



^epliei ta Minax ^iittiti. 



" Regis ad exemplum totus componitur Orhis " 

 (Vol. ii., pp.267. 381.).— 



" This hexameter verse." says L., " is not to be found 

 in this form in any classical author. It has been con- 

 verted into a single proverbial verse from the following 

 pass^^e of Claudiau : 



' Componitur orbis 

 Regis ad exemplum,' " &c. 



But in reply to Q. Q. Q.'s Query whence this 

 line is taken, I have the pleasure to observe that 

 it occurs in an epijjrara prefixed to Languet's 

 Vindiciae contra Tyrannos ; sive de Principis in 

 Popvlum, Populique in Principem legitima po- 

 testate. Stephano Junio Bruto Celta Auctore, 

 1589.* 



" L. Scribonius Spinier, Belga, Lectori, 



Contemptor Superum Maculosi nomine notus 



Vellerisf) Etruscus scurra, Sophista loquax, 

 Arte mala, I'opuli Harpyias saevosque Tj'rannos 



Instituit, Pestis maxima Christiadum. 

 Junius hoc Reges veros, Proceresque libello 



Efformat, Populos et sua jura doeet. 

 Nempe Caput magno civili in corpore Reges 



Corporis et Populum caetera membra facit. 

 Membra sed ut languent, capiti adversantia : Sanum, 



Tusce, erit, anne caput, quod sua membra premit? 

 Sint igitur Reges Populis re, ut fcedere. Leges, 



Nomine reque Patres. Justitieeque duces. 

 Totus ad exemplum Regis componitur Orbis, 



Rex quoque sic Populi se sciat esse caput. 

 fiunc veteri Reges referant de more triumphum, 



Quod Patriffl Patres, quod Populo Socii." 



This volume should have been included in the 

 list of books burnt. See Gerdes, Florilegium 

 Historico- Criticum Libronim Rariorum, cui rnidta 

 simul scitu jucunda adsperguntur Historiam otnnem 

 Litterariam, et cumprimis Reformationis Ecclesi- 

 asticam illustrantia. Groninjiae et Bremse, 1763. 



BiBLIOTHECAB. Ch£THAM. 



Ancient Cements (Vol. xii., p. 185.). — On the 

 subject of ancient cements, the readers of " N. & 

 Q." are welcome to the following receipt, copied 

 from a Register of Occurrences kept by the prior 

 and convent of Durham, and now in the possession 

 of the dean and chapter. The document which 



[* A translation of this work, published anonymously 

 in 1689, now before us, has the following curious manu- 

 script note on the title-page : — " The translation of the 

 VitidiciiB contra Tyrannos was the work of Mr. William 

 Walker, of Darnel, near Shelfield, Yorkshire, the person 

 who cut off King Charles's head. It was first printed in 

 1649 ( ?), and reprinted at the Revolution."] 



t " ' JIachiavellum digito notari, indubium est.' Nor 

 have our own countrymen been backward in testifying 

 their opinion of his merits. Out of his surname they 

 have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his 

 Christian name a synonyme for the devil : 



' Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, 

 Tho' he gave his name to Old Nick.' 



Put we believe there is a schism on this subject among 

 tlife antiquaries," — Macaulay. 

 No. 314.] 



precedes the entry, is an appointment of a cellarer 

 of Finchale, dated on the 2nd July, 1413. 1 may 

 hereafter communicate various receipts for ink 

 making of an earlj date from the same source of 

 information. 



" Take newe brynte lyme and water, and the skarthes 

 of newe tyle, and stampe yam to y« mykilnes of beenes, 

 or sum what gretter, and synders yat comes of y« smythes' 

 berth, and breke yam on ye same maner lyke ye tyele, 

 and blende yam to gider with water, and take thre partes 

 of lyme ; and yen lay two tyle thike in lyme and morter, 

 and yen take all yat es befor sayde and lay itt all above 

 two 3'nche thikke, an yf itt be Ihikker itt es ye better; 

 and take and syfte all ye small poudre oute of ye l}'me, 

 and }'e tyele, and ye sj'ndres; and ever as ytt es fressh 

 wroght caste ye same poudre above ye werke. And yis 

 most be done in Marche, for ye frost will elles lese itt." 



J. R. 

 Gloucester Cathedral : curious Fruit-tree 

 (Vol. xii., p. 304.) — There may be two curi(ms 

 fruit-trees growing in the precincts of Gloucester 

 Cathedral, but the only one I ever saw there was 

 an apple tree ; and its curiosity mainly arose from 

 retaining its fruit all through the winter, till the 

 tree was in blossom in spring ! I have often seen 

 blossom and fruit on it together. About thirty 

 years ago, I obtained grafts, and so I got a 

 goodly tree, equally curious, growing in my own 

 garden at Bilton ; but the fruit being useless, I 

 believe my successor has destroyed it. The only 

 history I could ever get was, that it was planted by 

 Dean Tucker. It was commonly called the " for- 

 bidden fruit ; " why, I know not, unless, from its 

 being safely secured within a hiiih iron railing, no 

 person can reacih it. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Clyst St. George. 



Sinope (Vol. xii., p. 302.). — This is a Greek 

 word, 2irw7n7, with the penultimate long, Sinope, 

 now called by the Turks, Sinoub. It occurs in 

 Herodotus (i. 76.; ii. 34.; iv. 12.), in Xenophon 

 (Anab. vi. 1.), in Polybius (iv. 5.), and several 

 times in Strabo and Arrian (Perip.). The line of 

 Dionysius (v. 628.), — 



"'Os ttot' aKiaoixevrtv 'X<roiniSa Sexro Sii'fojnjj', 



leaves no doubt as to the length of the penulti- 

 mate. The word is a compound, expres?ing in 

 Greek, " injured sight." This colony was esta- 

 blisiied by the Milesians, who founded other colo- 

 nies on the Asiatic shores of the Euxine and 

 in the Crimea. Prior to this colonization, the 

 Cimmerians, .according to Herodotus, flying from 

 the Scythians into Asia, built a town on the same 

 site. Strabo and Arrian mention Armene (now 

 Akliman) as the seaport of Sinope, from which it 

 was distant fifty stadia, or about six miles. Auto- 

 lycus, one of the Argonauts, was deemed the 

 founder of Sinope by its inhabitants. This was 

 the birth-place of Diogenes the Cynic, and Mlthri- 

 dates the Great. When Strabo wrote, in the 

 reign of Augustus, Sinope was a Roman colony. 

 Its red earth, (nvdmi, sinopis, so called from the 



