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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 169. 



statue of St. Peter at Rome (Vol. vi., p. 604.).— 

 This well-known bronze statue is falsely stated to 

 be a Jupiter converted. It is very far from being 

 true, thougli popularly it passes as truth, that the 

 statue in question is the ancient statue of Jupiter 

 Capitolinus, with certain alterations. 



Another commonly-received opinion regarding 

 this statue is, that it was cast for a St. Peter, hut 

 of the metal of the statue of Jupiter Capitolinus. 

 But this can scarcely be true, for Martial informs 

 us that in his own time the statue of the Capitoline 

 Jupiter was not of bronze but oi gold. 



" Scriptus et seterno nunc primum Jupiter auro." 



Lib. xi. Ep. iv. 



Undoubtedly the statue was cast for a St. Peter. 

 It was cast in the time of St. Leo the Great (440 

 — 461), and belonged to the ancient church of St. 

 Peter's. St. Peter has the nimbus on his head ; 

 the first two fingers of the right hand are raised 

 in the act of benediction ; the left hand holds the 

 keys, and the right foot projects from the pedestal. 

 The statue is seated on a pontifical chair of white 

 marble. Ceyeep. 



Old Silver Ornament (Vol. vi., p. 602.).— This 

 ornament is very probably what your correspondent 

 infers it is, — a portion of some military accoutre- 

 ment : if so, it may have appertained to some 

 Scotch regiment. It represents precisely the 

 badge worn by the baronets of Nova Scotia, the 

 device upon which was the saltier of St. Andrew, 

 with the royal arms of Scotland on an escutcheon 

 in the centre ; the whole surrounded by the motto, 

 and ensigned with the royal crown. The insignia 

 of the British orders of knighthood are frequently 

 represented in the ornaments upon the military 

 accoutrements of the present day. Ebob. 



" Plurima, pauca, nihil" (Vol. vi., p. SIL). — A 

 correspondent asks for the first part of an epigram 

 which ends with the words " plurima, pauca, 

 nihil." He is referred to an epigram of Martial, 

 which /cannot find. But I chance to remember 

 two epigrams which were aflixed to the statue of 

 Pasquin at Rome, in the year 1820, upon two 

 Cardinals who were candidates for the Popedom. 

 They run as follows, and are smart enough to be 

 worth preserving : 



" PASQUINALIA. 



" Sit bonus, et fortasse plus — sed semper ineptus — 

 Vult, meditatur, ag'it, plurima, pauca, nihil." 



" IN ALTERUM. 



" Promittit, promissa negat, ploratque negata, 

 Haec trla si junges, quls neget esse Petrum." 



A Borderer. 



^^ Pork-pisee" and " Wheale" (Vol. vi,, p. 579.). 

 — Has not Mr. Warde, in his second quotation, 

 copied the word wrongly — " pork-pisee" for pork- 



? A porpoise is the creature alluded to ; or 

 porpesse, as some modern naturalists spell it. 

 " Wheale " evidently means whey : the former 

 expression is probably a provincialism. Jaydee. 



Did the Carians use Heraldic Devices? (Vol. vi., 

 p. 556.). — Perhaps the following, from an heraldic 

 work of Dr. Bernd, professor at the University 

 of Bonn, may serve to answer the Queries of Mr. 

 Booker. 



Herodotus ascribes the first use, or, as he ex- 

 presses it, the invention of signs on shields, which 

 we call arms, and of the supporter or handle of 

 the shield, which till then had been suspended 

 by straps from the neck, as well as of the tuft of 

 feathers or horse-hair on the helmet, to the Carians ; 

 in which Strabo agrees with him, and, as far as 

 regards the supporters and crest, JElian also : 



" Herodot schrieb den ersten Gebrauch, oder wie er 

 sich ausdriickt, die Erfindung der Zeichen auf Schilden, 

 die wir Wappen nennen, wie auch der Halter oder 

 Handhaben an den Schilden, die bis dahin nur an 

 Riemen um den Nacken getragen wurden, uiid die 

 Biische von Federn oder Rosshaaren auf den Helmen, 

 den Cariern zu, worin ihm Strabo ( Geogr. 14. i. § 27.), 

 und was die Handhaben und Helmbiische betrifft, 

 auch ^lian (Hist. Animal. 12. 30.), beistimmen."^ 

 Bernd's Wappenwissen der Griechen und Homer, p. 4. 

 Bonn, 1841, 



On Thucydides i. 8., where mention is made of 

 Carians disinterred by the Athenians in the island 

 of Delos, the scholiast, evidently referring to the 

 passage cited by Mb. Booker, says : 



" Kapss wpwToi e'vpov tovs o/xcpaXous ruv aairiScav, Kal 

 Tovs \6(^ovs. TOLS oZv airodviiaKOvat avveQairrov dcTTri- 

 SlffKiov iMKphi/ Kol \6tpov, aT)yLiiov T^s eupeVecoy." 



From Plutarch's Artaxerxcs (10.) may be in- 

 ferred, that the Carian standard was a cock ; for 

 the king presented the Carian who slew Cyrus 

 with a golden one, to be thenceforth carried at the 

 head of the troop. 



For full information on the heraldry of the 

 ancients, your correspondent can scarcely do better 

 than consult the above-quoted work of Dr. Bernd, 



John Scott. 



Norwich, 



Herhert Family (Vol, vi., p. 473.). — The cele- 

 brated picture of Lord Herbert of Cherbury by 

 Isaac Oliver, at Penshurst, represents him with a 

 small swarthy countenance, dark eyes, very dark 

 black hair, and mustachios. All the Herberts 

 whom I have seen are dark-complexioned and 

 black-haired. This is the family badge, quite as 

 much as the unmistakeable nose in the descendants 

 of John of Gaunt. E. D. 



Children crying at Baptism (Vol. vi., p. 601.). 

 — I am inclined to suspect that the idea of its 

 being lucky for a child to cry at baptism arose 



