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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 257. 



book De Tintinnahulis, where is given an engrav- 

 ing of a man carrying -it. He calls it Symand7-on, 

 and introduces it thus : 



" Graeci vero Campanarum loco Symandrum habent et 

 Agiosydirum. Symandrum Graca etymologia h convo- 

 candis hominibus, seu potius coadunandis, appellant. . . ." 



And this is his description : 



"Symandrum esse scias ligneam tabulam latitudine 

 digitorum plus minus quinque, crassitudine sesquidigiti, 

 longitudine fere pedum quatuordecim. Non e quolibet 

 ligno fit, sed e praeduro, et quantum lignea materia pati- 

 tur, sonoro. Capita foramina habent nonnulla non magna 

 admodum, sed pennse anserinae, calamove seriptorio per- 

 via. In medio tenuem funiculum continet. Qui populum 

 ad templum est convocaturus, et Campanarii (ut ita cum 

 vulgo dicam) nocturnis et antelucanis horis munus obi- 

 turus, ante fores templi, vel edito loco tabulam prsenota- 

 tam malleis duobus ligneis pulsat, non sine aliqua ratione 

 musica, atque interim in gyrum sensim volvitur, qua re fit 

 nt gravior cum non ingrata raucedine sonus emittatur. 

 Tabula non qua latior, sed qua arctior est, quasi libraa 

 scapus, in sinistro Campanarii, et pulsantis humero quies- 

 cit ; ac ne pulsando dilabatur, funiculo prasdicto mordicus 

 apprehenso retinetur ; manibus enim non licet, tum quod, 

 ea apprehensa, sono non parum decedit ; tum quia utraque 

 manus malleo impeditur. Ambabus enim manibus pulsa- 

 tur bine inde, ut nunc qusdam frequentameuta, nunc 

 quasdam quasi pausas audias." — P. 76. 



As for the book on bells in Mr. Petheram's 

 Catalogue (V.), kindly communicated by F. H. A., 

 it must be one of the editions of Clavis Campana- 

 logici, which I quoted in my list, probably that of 

 1800, which is not dated. 



Not wishing to lengthen my list, I gave the 

 Latin title only, Clavis Campan., which I thought 

 sufficient without the translation, A Key to the 

 Art of Ringing. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Clyst St. George. 



Quotations of Plato and Aristotle (Vol. x., p. 125.). 

 — The reference in Nonet's Life of Christ in 

 Glory, translated by Dr. Pusey, is to the Pro- 

 blems of Aristotle, sect. xxx. 6. : 



" A(a Ti av0p(xirr(a Trturriov juaAAov, r) aA.X(i> {[iiu ; ffdrepov 

 wcrircp II\arb>i' NcokXci aTrcKpiVaro, on apifl/neiv fLOVov iiri- 

 Vrarai riav a.\Ku>v [fcooivj; 17 on fleoirj vo^i'^et jaovos ; tj on 

 jKijLii7nK(0TaT0i' ; fxavdavci;< yap ivvajai fiid tovto," 



Nonet's error consists in ascribing an opinion 

 to Aristotle which Aristotle expressly attributes 

 to Plato ; not, however, that the science of num- 

 bers makes man " the wisest" as Nouet translates, 

 but the most credible of animals ; Treiareov meaning 

 power of persuasion reduced into action. Compare 

 Arist., Rhet., 1. 1. c. i. s. 14., and Euripides (Hipp,, 

 1183.) 



" lit KTrfOi/ iraTpbs Xoyojj." 



Translated by Carmeli — 



" Si dee 

 Obbedire del Padre alle parole." 



Theod. Gaza translates this word in Aristotle's 

 Problems, " credendum est." 



The words rSiv ^dxav ^iiir\riK<!ira,Tos avdpdiros 



would furnish a good motto for the Crystal 



Palace ; fii/xva-is, in Aristotle (Poetics, c. i.-iii.), 

 comprising the imitative and much of the inven- 

 tive faculty, which, as developed in the fine and 

 useful arts, is more characteristic of man even 

 than religion itself, the former being objective, 

 whilst religion, if genuine, is mainly subjective. 

 The view taken by Aristotle is, that man is dis- 

 tinguished from other animals by religion, and by 

 being subjected to authority through the exercise 

 of the mimetic faculty ; by which also he acquires 

 knowledge*, a very different sentiment from that 

 attributed to him by Nouet. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Monster found at Maidstone (Vol. ix., p. 106.). 

 — The monster found at Maidstone in 1206, which 

 is the subject of H. W. D.'s Query, is mentioned 

 by Sir Thomas Baker in his Chronicles of the 

 Kings of England, 1679. Under the head of 

 " Casualties happening in his (King John's) time," 

 he describes the creature, with two other prodigies, 

 which savour much of the marvellous : 



" Fishes of strange shape were taken in England, armed 

 with helmets and shields, and were like unto armed 

 knights, saving they were far greater in proportion. 

 About Maidstone in Kent a certain monster was found 

 stricken with the lightning, which monster had a head 

 like an ass, a belly like a man, and all other parts differ- 

 ing from any other creature. Also in Suffolk was taken 

 a fish in form like a man, and was kept six months upon 

 land with raw flesh and fish, and then, for that they 

 could have no speech of it, they cast it into the sea 

 again." 



Truly the thirteenth century was an age happy 

 in its production of " odd fish 1 " 



F. M. MlDDLETOW. 



" OU Rowley " (Vol. ix., pp. 235. 457. 477.).— 

 Lord Braybrooke's account is probably the cor- 

 rect one ; but in Bohn's edition of_ Count Gram- 

 monfs Memoirs, another derivation is mentioned. 



"In the Richardsoniana is given the following account 

 of the origin of the king's nickname of Rowley : ' There 

 was an old goat that used to roam about the privy- 

 garden to which thev had given this name; a rank 

 lecherous devil, that everybody knew and used to stroke, 

 because he was good-humoured and familiar ; and so they 

 applied this name to Charles.' One evening, Charles 

 heard one of the maids of honour singing a ballad in their 

 apartment, in which old Rowley was mentioned in a 

 rather unpleasant manner. After listening for a few mo- 

 ments, he knocked at the door. 'Who is there? ' cried 

 Miss Howard, who turned out to be the vocalist. ' Only 

 old Rowley,' was the good-natured reply." — P. 450. 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B. A. 



^'■Incidis in Scyllam," SfC. (Vol. ii., pp. 85. 136. 

 141.), — Several correspondents have traced this 



* The discipline of the army, navy, of schools, colleges, 

 and of the learned professions, when governed by au- 

 thority, illustrates the h'MIo-^ of Aristotle. This principle 

 appears to operate amongst gregarious animals, who, for 

 instance, feed in a sort of rank-and-file order, and evince 

 it verv distinctly when alarmed by their natural enemies. 



