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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 256. 



duced by Mr. W. Fraser as the original locale of 

 the beautiful idea — " stars are the flowers of 

 heaven" — is not entitled to this distinction, will 

 be granted by your correspondent, when told that 

 an earlier father thus eloquently expresses the 

 same : 



" If then, with admiration, gazing in a serene night at 

 the ineffable beauty of the stars, you have considered 

 with delight who the architect is, who with these flowers 

 has garnished the heaven," &c. — J3asiui Homil. in Hexcem, 

 Ti. i. 



BiBLIOTHECAE. ChETHAM. 



Grammars for Public Schools (Vol. x., p. 116.). 

 — Thomas Rudd, M.A., Head Master of Queen 

 Elizabetli's Grammar School at Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, 1699 — 1710, published a Syntaxis in usum 

 Scholce Nevocastrensis. E. H. A. 



Add to your list, Rudiments of the Greek Lan- 

 guage^ new edition, for the use of Charterhouse 

 School, London, 1844; and also. Rudiments of the 

 Latin Language, new edition, for the use of Char- 

 terhouse School, London, 1843. J. R. G. 



Lvke ii. 14. (Vol. x., p. 185.). — "Hominibus bonce 

 voluntatis." Instead of fvSoKia, evSodai, in the geni- 

 tive, was plainly the Greek text from which the 

 Vulgate was translated. And this reading has been 

 preserved by Walton and Samuel Lee in their 

 Polyglotts, and is also followed by Wiclif in his 

 translation of the Bible : " And in er the pees be 

 to men of good wille" (see Bagster's Hexapla). 

 But the modern and preferable reading, I con- 

 ceive, is evSoKla, with a half stop at the word 

 elp^vT] ; which has been adopted by Tyndale — 

 " Glory to God an hye, and peace on the erth : and 

 unto men reioysynge" — and followed by all our 

 English translators. Walton, though he gives the 

 Vulgate reading (of course) as he found it, yet, in 

 his own version of this plain passage, prefers the 

 nominative to the genitive case : " in hominibus 

 bene placitwm." Charles Hook. 



M. A. asks " how it ever came to pass " that the 

 final clause in the Doxology, in St. Luke ii. 14., 

 was translated in the Vulgate by "hominibus 

 bonse voluntatis?" Had he consulted any com- 

 mentator, he would have found that the Latin 

 was the only correct rendering of a different and 

 well-supported reading of the original Greek, 

 iy avdpcinots euSo/ctas ; which, says Mill (^Examen, in 

 he): 



" Hehraismus est, significat homines erga quos Deus se 

 insigniter benevolum ostendit seu quos peculiari quadam 

 gratia complectitur." 



The authorities he cites for this reading are, "Alex., 

 Cant., Vulg., Goth., Sax. (Beza, editio prima), 

 IrenjEus Lat., lib. iii. cap. ii. p. 216., Hieronymus, 

 Ambrosius, Augustinus" (et Cyrillus), — a very 

 respectable array, which, however, are not equal 



to the united authority of the oriental and other 

 versions, backed by the weight of all the Greek 

 Fathers. The five early English translations ex- 

 hibit a strange disagreement in rendering this 

 verse, as Bagster's Hexapla shows, viz. : 



" Wiclif, 1380. And in erthe pees be to men of good wille. 



Tyndale, 1.534. Peace on the erth : and vnto men reioy- 

 synge. 



Cranmer, 1539. Peace on the erth, and vnto men a good 

 wyll. 



Geneva, 1557. Peace in earth and towardes men good 

 wyl. 



Kheims, 1582. And in earth peace to men of good vvil." 



J. R. G. 



Dublin. 



The passage in the Vulgate, Luke ii. 14., 

 " hominibus bonce voluntatis" is a translation from 

 the reading eUooKias In the Greek. This reading is 

 found in the Codex Alexandrinus, and in the 

 Codex Cantabrigiensis, and in one or two versions 

 and Fathers ; but is thought by Mr. Alford, and 

 other eminent critical scholars, to be of insufficient 

 authority. W. H. 



The answer to M. A.'s Query may be found at 

 length in most annotations on the Gospels ; but 

 to be brief, bonce voluntatis is the lire ral meaning 

 of evSoKiris, the reading of many MSS., and one 

 which Mill {Prolog. 675.) approves, saying that it 

 is a Hebraism, though in his notes ad locum he 

 disallows it : iu^oKia is the received text. 



J. Eastwood. 



MS. Verses in Fuller's '■^ Medicina Gymnastica''* 

 (Vol. x., p. 7.).- 



" He plows in sand, and sows against the wind. 

 That hopes for constant love of womankinde." 



Is not this couplet a paraphrase of the following 

 lines of Sannazan, Eclogue viir.? — 



" Nell' onde solca, e nell' arene semina 

 E '1 vago vento spera in rete accogliere, 

 Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina." 



Are they less complimentary or more true of 

 woman, or does poetry read best with fiction ? F. 



Virgilian Inscription for an Infant School (Vol. 

 ix., p. 147.). — Anon, has been anticipated. His 

 Virgilian inscription is the motto to Shenstone's 

 School-Mistress. C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



School Libraries (Vol. ix., p. 65.). — Bruton School, 

 in Somersetshire, possesses an excellent library, 

 which is ever being enlarged by fresh volumes. 

 It was established many years ago by the present 

 master, and is kept up by a trifling subscription 

 among the boys, aided by the masters. It is 

 really a good library of modern literature, con- 

 taining standard books, such as Alison's History 

 and Hallam's Works, as well as Murray's Home 

 and Colonial Library, with other books of a lighter 



