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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 143, 



" Jam visam Solymae edita 

 Ccelo cultnina, et acdiuni, 

 Caetus Angelicos, suo et 



Augustam popiilo urbetn 



IV. 



" Urbem, quam procul infimis 

 Terrae finibus exciti 

 Petunt Christiadae, ut Deam 

 Laudent voce perenni : 



V. 



" Jussam ccelitus oppidis 

 Urbetn jus dare caeteris, 

 Et sedem fore Davidis 



Cuncta in sa;cla beati. 



" Mater nobilis urbium ! 

 Semper te bona pax amat : 

 Et te semper amantibus 

 Cedunt omnia recte. 



VII. 



" Semper pax tiia mcenia 

 Colit ; semper in atriis 

 Tuis copia dextera 



Larga munera fundit. 



VIII. 



" Dulcis Christiadum domus, 

 Civem adscribe novitium : 

 Sola comitata Caritas 



Spesque Fidesque valete." 



I need not offer any apology for quoting these 

 beautiful lines, or for referring to Merrick's spirited 

 translation given by Bishop Home; but I have often 

 thouglit that Theodore Zuinger only adopted them 

 from Buchanan, and gave them a more Christian 

 turn. I have no opportunity of consulting De 

 Thou, or Melchior Adamus, and know little more 

 of Theodore Zuinger than that iiis Theatrum Vita 

 HumancB. Basil, 1586, received a severe castigation 

 in the Vatican Index Expurgatorius, Romse, 1608 ; 

 and that he died in March 1588, aged Jiff i/ -four 

 liears. Six years before that time, Buchanan had 

 died, in 1582. And I should be obliged to any of 

 your correspondents that will mention any just 

 cause or impediment why Buchanan should not 

 have been the author rather than Zuinger. lie 

 shall speak for himself: I copy from a r2mo. 

 edition : Amstelcedarni, apud Henricum Wetstenium, 

 1687: 



I. 

 " O Lux Candida, lux mibi 



Lacti conscia nuncii : 



Jam pleno stata tempora 

 Reddit circukis auno : 



II. 

 " Jam festi revocant dies 

 Augustam Domini ad domum : 

 Jam sacri pedibns premam 

 Lsetus limina templi. 



" Jam visam Solyraae edita 

 Ccc'o culmina, et sedium 

 Moles nobilium, et suo 



Augustam populo urbem i 



IV. 



" Urbem, quam procul ultimis 

 Terrse finibus exciti, 

 Petunt Isacids?, ut Deum 

 Placent more parentum. 



v. 

 " Jussam ccelitus oppidis 

 Urbem jus dare ceteris : 

 Et sedem fore Davidis 



Cuncta in secula proli. 



VI. 



" Mater nobilis urbium, 

 Semper te bona pax amet : 

 Et te semper amantibus 

 Cedant omnia recte. 



VII. 



" Semper pax tua mcenia 

 Colat : semper in aedibus 

 Tuis copia dextera 



Larga munera fundat. 



VIII. 



" Dulcis Isacidum domus, 

 Te pax incola sospitet : 

 Sedes Numinis, omnia 



Succedant tibi fauste." 



Warmington. 



Et. 



iHtunr ^atti. 

 The Word Handbook. — The following is a 

 striking instance of the rapidity with which a 

 newly coined Avord becomes adopted as current 

 English, pi'ovided it be framed in real accordance 

 with the nature of the language. "Handbook" is 

 now a household word, and yet it is but nineteen 

 years ago that Sir Harris Nicolas, in the preface 

 to his Chronology of History (Lardner's Cab. 

 Cyclopcedia, 1833), regretted that he could not 

 venture to use the term. The fittest title for the 

 work, he says, " if our language admitted of the 

 expression, would have been the Handbook of 

 History." Jatdke. 



Bitter Beer. — The origin and antiquity of bitter 

 beer certainly deserves further elucidation than it 

 has yet received. Beer was the beverage of our 

 German progenitors, Tacitus tells us, in a tone 

 however of contempt, with which the readers of 

 " N. & Q." will certainly not sympathise : 



" Potui humor ex hordeo aut frumento in quandam 

 similitudinem vini corruptus ; proximi ripaj et vinuin 

 mercantur." — De Germ, xxiii. 



And this ale and mum was, we learn, bittered 

 with hops : 



" Lupo saKctario germani suam condiunt cervislam." 



