Sept. 11. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Passage in the Somnium Scipionis (Vol.vi., p. 

 175.). — The passage is unimportant and tbe text 

 corrupt. The French translation of the Abbe 

 D'Olivet, following the Gi-eek translation, gives 

 " silence " in the place of '■'■ parum rehiis." 



«' Je vous en pile, leur dit Scipion avec uii sourire 

 gracieux, ne me reveillez pas ; silence ; ecoutez le reste." 



The following are the notes of M. Bouhier, 

 President of the Acadcmie Frangaise, on the words 

 " Et parum rebus : " 



" Lambiii avoit corrige ainsi cet endroit, et sa cor- 

 rection s'est trouvee confirmee par les raanuscrits de 

 Langires et de Gruter. Qiielques savans, et entre 

 autres Ph. Parens, Lexic. Crit., au mot Res, veulent 

 qu'on sous-entende ici, concedite ; c'est-ii-dire : Date 

 aliquid temporis, et otii rebus tarn arduis cognoscendis. 

 jVJais je voudrois que cette faQon de parler fut soutenue 

 de quelques exemples plus precis que ceux qu'ils al- 

 leguent. Toutos les anciennes editions, appuyees de 

 la" traduction greque, ont: Pax sit rebus, expression 

 qui u'est pas moins extraordinaire que I'autre. Les 

 critiques proposent ici diverses corrections. Gra;vius 

 a hi: Pax! Ferum audite cetera. Et Gronovius le fils: 

 Et per avum de his audite cetera. M. le Clerc, Art. Crit., 

 t, ii. p. 326., a corrige : A'e me u somno excitetis his 

 pavoribus. M. Heuman, Parerg. Crit., p. 155., a re- 

 jette ces deux conjectures par d'assez bonnes raisons, 

 et propose une autre correction, qui ne differe nean- 

 raoins de la derniere, qu'en ce qu'il lit : His clamoribtis. 

 Pour moi, sans admettre de si grands changemens au 

 texte, je soup§onneque Ciceron avoit ecrit : Et parumper 

 audite cetera. Au lieu de parumper, les anciens copistes 

 ont lu par inadvertance parumreb ; et c'est apparem- 

 ment ce qui a donne lieu a la corruption de ce passage, 

 quoiqu'il soit difficile de rien affirmer en ces sortes des 

 choses, sans le secours de manuscrits." 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Bristol Road, Birmingham. 



Alteration in Prayer Books (Vol. vi., p. 170.). — 

 Your attention having been called to misprints in 

 prayer books, allow me to inquire the origin and 

 authority for a change of words which occurs, in 

 the modern editions, in the " Prayer for the High 

 Court of Parliament." In the copies printed an- 

 terior to the present century, the words stand 

 thus : " The safety, honour, and welfare of our 

 Sovereign andHisiiC?ng-Jowts ;" but in later editions 

 the last word is replaced by " dominions" which 

 now appears to be universally acquiesced in. As 

 the change took place about the date of the union 

 with Ireland, when the Church of England began 

 to be designated, on the title-page of the Book of 

 Common Prayer, the United Church of England 

 and Ireland, it may be matter for reflection with 

 those who are interested in the revival of the 

 powers of convocation, by what authority, either of 

 the English or Irish Church, that one change or 

 the other was made. In a constitutional point of 

 view, the change In the prayer is Important. The 

 old form followed the old style of our monarchs, 



" Rex Anglife Dominus Hibernias." But accord- 

 ing to this new phrase, the Dominus is applied to 

 both realms. Balliolensis. 



The Etymology of Llewelyn (Vol. vi., p. 150.). 

 — The popular etymology of this word is Llew, a 

 lion ; Gelyn, an enemy : Llewelyn, a lion-enemy, a 

 lion-like enemy. Supposing this correct, and 

 there seems little room for doubt, the name should 

 be written as above, and not Llewellyn. It is never 

 pronounced Llewellyn by the Welsh. Sigma. 



Carmarthen. 



Reverence to the Altar (Vol. vL, pp. 33, 109.). — 

 At the village church, Tarrant Keynston, Dorset, 

 it is the custom of those of the congregation who 

 pass the reading desk to their seats, to bow to the 

 clergyman ; and within the last few years, at 

 Kinson, near WImborne, Dorset, I have observed 

 some of the old men bow upon entering the 

 church. John II. A. 



Ensbury, Dorset, 



Inscription on a Bell (Vol. vi., p. 99.). — The 

 reading is erroneous, and should be Daventrie in- 

 stead of Daveatice. The line Avould then mean, 

 " Henrick ter Horst made me, at Daventer, 1654." 

 Daventer is a town in the Netherlands, in the 

 province of Overyssel. fx. 



Time when Briefs were abolished (Vol. iv., 

 p. 232.). — By act of 9 Geo. IV., 15 July, 1828 : 

 and the greater part of the original briefs issued 

 from the year 1754 up to that date are preserved 

 in the British Museum, to which they were pre- 

 sented in 1829 by J. S. Salt, Esq. p.. 



Shan-dra-dam (Vol. vi., p. 74.). — This word is 

 In all probability a corruption of the French Char- 

 en-dedans, or Inside car, in which travellers sit 

 vis-d-vis, and which is very commonly used in the 

 Highlands of Scotland. E. N. 



Portraits of Wolsey (Vol.vi., ante.'). — We have 

 the authority of Granger, in his Biographical 

 History of England, for asserting that "there is no 

 head of W^oisey which is not in profile. It is said 

 that his portraits were so done because he had but 

 one eye. This defect has been Imputed, perhaps 

 falsely, to a disgraceful distemper." G. Munfokd. 



East Winch. 



Lunar Occultations (Vol, vi., pp. 73. 176.). — It 

 seems to me that E. H, Y.'s answer to H, C. K. is 

 not conclusive. He forgets that the light from 

 the moon is a continuous stream, while the pro- 

 jected light of the star (If I may use the expres- 

 sion) is ex hypothesi detached and momentary, and 

 might therefore seem to float, as it were, over the 

 stream of moonlight, although the portion of the 

 stream in which it appears might not be exactly 

 synchronous with the light of the star. C. 



