Nov. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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aware that the work of which I have been speak- 

 ing, and which is now before me (^La Saxe Galante, 

 A Amsterdam, Axix depens de la compagnie, 

 1734, 12mo. pp. 416.), was not originally written 

 in French. All the other productions of Baron 

 Poellnitz are in this language, into which, how- 

 ever, in the present instance, he may have trans- 

 lated from a German original. William Bates. 

 Birmingham. 



Russia and Turkey (Vol. xii., p. 202.). — I 

 doubt the authenticity of the medal said to have 

 been struck during the Congress of Verona in 

 1822. It was not usual, then and there, to strike 

 medals with English inscriptions ; if this was in 

 any other language, the precise words should be 

 given, that we may judge whether they are cor- 

 rectly rendered by "J should like Constantinople." 

 It was scarcely "in honour" of Nicholas to re- 

 present him so openly expressing, in 1822, that 

 desire for the " sick man's " estate, which he broke 

 so cautiously to our amhnssador thirty years later; 

 and another difficulty arises from the fact, that in 

 1822, Nicholas was neither emperor nor heir pre- 

 sumptive. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Thomas Perceval, F.S. A. (Vol. xii., p. 266.). — 

 He was born Sept. 1, 1719, and ob. 1763, a3t. 44. 

 He was buried in a vault within St. Paul's Chapel, 

 Royton, where his wife, Martiia, daughter of 

 Major Benjamin Gregge, of Chamber Hall, in 

 Oldham, was buried in March, 1760, set. 45 ; but 

 no monument was erected to his memory. Could 

 Alpha state what became of his antiquarian col- 

 lections, referred to by local historians as " the 

 Perceval MSS. " ? F. E. B. 



" AajUTTcCSiof " (Vol. xi., p. 4G5. ; Vol. xii., pp. 18. 

 235.). — Lampadion was the received name of a 

 lively and petulant courtesan in the later Greek 

 comedy, the corresponding character to which, 

 though her morality may be more correct, is not 

 wanting on the English stage. Lucretius, in de- 

 scribing the delusions of lovers who convert the 

 defects of their mistresses into excellences which 

 have an affinity with them, thus use the name : 



"Balba, loqui non quit? rpavAtfet' muta, pudens est; 

 At flagrans, odiosa, loquacula, Aa;inra5io;' fit." 



IV. 1157-8. 

 " If your mistress stammers, you say that slie lisps ; if 

 she is silent, you call her modest ; but if she is quarrel- 

 some, ill-tempered, and garrulous, you dignify her with 

 the name of a Lampadion." 



The name likewise occurs in a fragment of 

 Varro apud No7i., c. ii. § 906. : 



" Quid tristiorem video te esse ? nnm angit liajc Lam- 

 padion ? ■' 



In this extract from a dialogue the person ad- 

 dressed is described as annoyed by the smart- 

 No. 315.] 



ness and impertinence of a courtesan ; her sex is 

 marked by the pronoun h(Bc prefixed to the neuter 

 form Lampadion, L. 



Duty on armorial Bearings (Vol. xii., p. 206.). 

 — M's Query respecting the above, as to whether 

 a person having a wafer-stamp seal in his pos- 

 session would be liable to duty, has been often 

 answered in the affirmative by the judges, if the 

 device could be construed by any means into the 

 representations of a crest: so has the crest in the 

 top of a common pencil-case caused its possessor 

 to be honoured with the payment of duty for 

 " having armorial bearings." A curious case was 

 decided a few years ago by the judges upon ap- 

 peal. An innkeeper (I believe in Oxfordshire) 

 was charged the armorial bearings' duty. It ap- 

 peared that the house had formerly belonged to a 

 gentleman, and in the entrance-hall were left a 

 couple of old painted chairs, on the top rail in the 

 backs of which was painted the shield or crest of 

 the former possessor. Mine host objected to the 

 charge, alleging that the honour of bearing coat- 

 armour was none of his, the chair having passed 

 through the possession of many before they came 

 to him ; but his arguments were of no avail, the 

 judges decided that he must pay for the unlucky 

 ornaments ; but I suppose it was not long before 

 the painter's brush obliterated them. The only 

 exception that is allowed is, that of a mayor or 

 other officer using the armorial bearings of the 

 corporation during their time of office. J. B — n. 



^Etiolated (Vol. xii., pp. 1 86. 234.). — I hope that 

 H. Baschet will kindly pardon me if I correct an 

 error or two in his attempt to explain the word 

 etiolated. AWw does not mean I shine, but I burn, 

 or kindle, or set fire to ; it rarely means / am on 

 fire. Alria has nothing to do with aiOca, either in 

 its etymology or its signification. AlnoXoy-la, or 

 (Btiohgy, has nothing to do with etiolated, nor has 

 either cetiology or etiolated anything to do with 

 etique, which is a Greek word from exw, / have ; 

 whence (ktikos, hectic, pertaining to e^ts, or habit, 

 i. e. habitual, constitutional. Hectic has nothing 

 to do with consumptive, except that hectic fever is 

 among the symptoms of consumption. H. Bas- 

 chet has taken his interpretation, I fear, from 

 the Imperial Cycloptedia, a book which, on ac- 

 count of its many blanders, needs to be used with 

 much caution. I will not hazard an attempt to 

 furnish a derivation of etiolated. I may add that 

 the word is not a neuter verb, but a passive parti- 

 ciple, though, perhaps, " to etiolate" may not be 

 found in use. It seems to be of French growth. 



E. J. S. 



Will Mr. Gantillon be satisfied with the deri- 

 vation Mr. Cbaig gives of the word "etiolated," 

 from AWw, to shine ? It is the only one I have 

 met with, and seems to illustrate the blanching 



