May 21. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



495 



<Jote in his Life of Sylla, c. 6., proceeds to say, 

 that this boast gave so much offence to the deity, 

 that he never afterwards prospered in any of 

 his enterprises. His reverse of luck, in conse- 

 •quence of his vainglorious language against For- 

 tune, is also alluded to by Dio Chrysost. Orat., 

 Ixiv. § 19., edit. Emper. It will be observed that 

 Plutarch refers the saying of Timotheus to a single 

 expedition ; whereas Bacon multiplies it, by ex- 

 tending it over a series of acts. 



P. 172. " Cicero reporteth that it was then in use for 

 senators that had name and opuiion for general wise 

 men, as Coruncanius, Curius, Laelius, and many others, 

 to walk at certain hours in the Place," &c. 



The passage alluded to is De Orat, iii. 83. The 

 persons there named are Sex. iElius, Manius Mani- 

 lius, P. Crassus, Tib. Coruncanius, and Scipio. 



P. 179. " We will begin, therefore, with this precept, 

 according to the ancient opinion, that the sinews of 

 wisdom are slowness of belief, and distrust." 



The precept adverted to is the verse of Epi- 

 •charmus : 



" va(pe Koi iJ.4fivacr' WKiffTuV &p9pa ravra juv cppevoiv." 



P. 180. " Fraus sibi in parvis fidera prsestruit, ut 

 majore emolumento fallat." 



Query, Where does this passage occur, as well 

 as the expression " alimenta socordlse," which 

 Demosthenes, according to Bacon, applies to small 

 favours. L. 



ERECTION OF FORTS AT MICHNEE AND PTLOS. 



Mr. Dartnell, Surgeon of H. M. 53rd regiment, 

 gives the following account of the building of a 

 fort which has lately been erected at MIchnee to 

 check the incursions of the Momunds into the 

 Peshawur Valley : 



" There was little to be done, except to build a fort, 

 And here the officers had to superintend and direct the 



working parties which were daily sent out 



Labourers from far and near, Cashmerees, Caboolees, 

 men from the Hindoo Koosh, Afreedees, Khyberees, 

 &c., all working together with hearty goodwill, and a 

 sort of good-humoured rivalry. . , . It is only 

 when working by contract, however, that the Cash- 

 meree displays his full physical powers, and it is then 

 perfectly refreshing, in such a physically relaxing and 

 take-the-world-as-it-goes sort of a country as this, to 

 observe him. . . - . And then to see him carry a 

 burden! On his head? No. On his back? Yes, 

 but after a fashion of his own, perfectly natural and 

 entirely independent of basket, or receptacle of any 

 kind in which to place it. I have now in my garden 

 some half-dozen of these labourers at work, removing 

 immense masses of clay, which are nearly as hard as 

 flint, and how do they manage ? My friend Jumah 

 Khan reverts his arms, and clasping his hands together 

 behind his back, receives the pyramidal load, which 

 generally overtops his head, and thus he conveys it to 



its destination," &c. — Colburn's United Service Ma- 

 gazine, December, J 852, pp. 514,515. 



Thucydides tells us that as soon as the crews of 

 the Athenian ships, weatherbound at Pylos in the 

 spring of the year b.c. 425, had made up their 

 minds to kill time by fortifying their harbour of 

 refuge, — 



" They took the work in hand, and plied it briskly, 

 . . . The mud that was anywhere requisite, for 

 want of vessels, they carried on their shoulders, bending 

 forwards as much as possible, that it might have room 

 to stick on, and holding it up with both hands clasped 

 fast behind that it might not slide down." — Book iv. 

 chap. 4. (Smith's Translation.) 



C. Forbes. 

 Temple. 



HOVEDEN S ANNAIiS BOHN S 



ilBRAEY." 



■ ANTIQUARIAN 



Considering the cheap issue of all standard 

 works of reference a great boon to the general 

 student, I was predisposed to welcome heartily 

 Mr. Bohn's Antiquarian Library. If, however, 

 cheapness be accompanied by incorrectness., the 

 promised boon I conceive, to be worthless ; even 

 one or two glaring errors rendering the student 

 distrustful of the entire series. I was led to form 

 the first of these conclusions on receiving vol. i. of 

 a translation of the Annals of Roger de Hoveden, 

 by Henry T. Eiley, Esq., barrister-at-law ; who 

 introduces the work by a flourish of trumpets in 

 the Preface, on the multifarious errors of the 

 London and Frankfort editions, and the labour 

 taken to correct his ojon ; to the second by ob- 

 serving, whilst cutting the leaves, the following 

 glaring errors, put forward too as corrections : — 

 Vol. i. p. 350., Henry II. is stated by the Annalist 

 to have landed in Ireland, a.d. 1172, " at a place 

 which is called Croch, distant eight miles from the 

 city of Waterford." Here Mr. Riley, with perfect 

 gravity, suggests Cork* as the true reading!! 

 Can it be, that a barrister-at-law, with an omi- 

 nously Irish-sounding name, is ignorant that the 

 city of Cork is somewhat more distant than eight 

 miles from the urbs intacta, as Waterford loves to 

 call herself? The fact Is, however, that Hoveden 

 and his former editors were nearly correct : on 



* This geographical morceau was nearly equalled by 

 a scribe in the Illustrated London News, who stated that 

 her Gracious Majesty's steam-yacht, with its royal 

 freight and attendant squadron, when coasting round 

 from Cork to Dublin in the year 1849, had entered 

 Tramore Bay, and thence steamed up to Passage in the 

 Waterford Harbour ! A truly royal road to safety ; 

 and one that, did it exist, would have saved many a 

 gallant crew and ship, which have met their fate within 

 the landlocked, but ironbound and shelterless, jaws of 

 Tramore Bay. 



