Oct. 1. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Superbus was about to build the Temple of Jupi- 

 ter Capitolinus, it was found necessary to " ex- 

 augurate" or dispossess the other deities whose 

 shrines had previously occupied the ground. All 

 readily gave way to Father Jupiter with the ex- 

 ception of Terminus ; and the point of the riddle 

 lies in the analogy between " Scmel minus," "5w 

 minus," and " Ter minus." 



I extract a note from the copy of Aulus Gelllus 

 before me : 



" Barthius (^Adv., lib. xvi. cap. xxii.) lies versus ita 

 legebat : 



* Semel minus ? Non. Bismlnus ? Non. Sat scio. 

 An utruiuque? Verum ; ut quondam audivi dicier, 

 Jovi ipsi regi noluit concedere.' 



" Ita et trimetri sua slbi constant lege, et acumen 

 repetitis interrogatiunculis. Alioquin frigidum re- 

 sponsum. Potest tamen ita intelligi, ut semel, bis, imo 

 ter Jove minus sit, et noluerit tamen Jovi cedere." — 

 Page 560. N. : Lugd. Batav., 1706, 4to. 



Lactantius, " the Christian Cicero," thus tells 

 the story : 



" Nam cum Tarquinius Capitolium facere vellet ; eo- 

 que in loco multorum deorum sacella essent : consu- 

 luit eos per augurium ; utriim Jovi cederent, et ce- 

 dentibus ceteris, solus Terminus mansit. Unde ilium 

 Poeta ' Capitoli immobile Saxum'vocat (Virg., ^n. 

 ix. 441.). Facto itaque Capitolio, supra ipsum Ter- 

 minum foramen est in tecto relictum : ut quia non 

 cesserat, libero coelo frueretur." — De Falsa Relig., lib. i. 

 cap. XX. ad Jin. 



Livy, in a subsequent book (v. 45.), Dionysius 

 of Halicarnassus (Antiqu. Horn., lib. iii. cap. Ixix.) 

 and Florus assert that Juventaa also refused to 

 move ; and St. Augustine tells the same story of 

 Mars. I may as well quote his words : 



" Cum Rex Tarquinius Capitolium fabricare vellet, 

 eumque locum qui ei dignior aptiorque videbatur, ab 

 Diis aliis cerneret praeoccupatum, non audons aliquid 

 contra eorum facere arbitrium, et credens eos tanto 

 numini suoqne principi voluntate cessuros ; quia multi 

 erant illic ubi Capitolium constitutum est, per augu- 

 rium quaesivit, utrum concedere locum vellent Jovi : 

 atque ipsi inde cedere omnes voluerunt, prater illos, 

 quos commemoravi, Martem, Terminum, Juventatem : 

 atque ideo Capitolium ita constitutum est, ut etiam 

 iste tres intus essent tarn obscuris signis, ut hoc vix 

 homines doctissimi scirent." — De Civit. Dei, lib. iv. 

 cap. xxiii. S. 



Nor must I omit the following from Ovid : 



" Quid, nova quum fierent Capitolia ? Nempe Deorum 

 Cuncta Jovi cessit turba, locumque dedit, 

 Terminus ut memorant veteres, inventus in sede, 



Restitit, et magno cum Jove templa tenet. 

 Nunc quoque, se supra ne quid nisi sidera cernat, 

 Exiguum templi tecta foramen habent." 



Fast, lib. ii. 667., &c. 



Much more information may be found in Smith's 

 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, &c.. 



sub voc. Tekminus. Servius, ad Aen. ix. '448. 

 Politiani, Miscell. c. 36. Histoire Bomaine, par 

 Catrou et Rouille, vol. i. p. 343. &c., N. : "k Paris, 

 1725, 4to. Grtevii, Thesaur. Antiqu. Rom., vol. ix. 

 218. N., and vol. x. 783. Trajecc. ad Rhen., 1699, 

 fol. Plutarch, in Vit. NumcB. Robert Gibbings. 



(Vol. viii., p. 20. &c.) 



In two previous Numbers (Vol. vi., p. 54. ; Vol. 

 vii., p. 594.) Queries have been inserted as to the • 

 derivation of the exclamations Hurrah! and Hip, 

 hip, hwrah! These have elicited much learned 

 remark (Vol. vii., p. 633. ; Vol. viii., pp. 20. 277.), 

 but still I think the real originals have not yet 

 been reached by your correspondents. 



As to hip, hip ! I fear It must remain question- 

 able, whether It be not a mere fanciful conjecture 

 to resolve It into the Initials of the war-cry of 

 the Crusaders, " HIerosolyma est perdlta!" The 

 authorities, however, seem to establish that it 

 should be written " hep" Instead of hip. I would 

 only remark, e7i passant, that there Is an error in 

 the passage cited by Mr. Brent (Vol. viii., p. 88.) 

 In opposition to this mediajval solution, which en- 

 tirely destroys the authority of the quotation. He 

 refers to a note on the ballad of " Old Sir Simon 

 the King," In which, on the couplet — 



" Hang up all the poor hep drinkers. 

 Cries Old Sir Sim, the king of skinkers." 



the author says that " hep was a term of derision 

 applied to those who drank a weak infusion of the 

 hep (or hip) berry or sloe : and that the exclam- 

 ation ' hip, hip, hurrah ! ' is merely a corruption 

 of ' hip, hip, away !' " But, unfortunately for this 

 theory, the hip Is not the sloe, as the annotator 

 seems to suppose ; nor Is It capable of being used 

 in the preparation of any infusion that could be 

 substituted for wine, or drunk " with all the 

 honours." It is merely the hard and tasteless 

 huckey of the wild dog-rose, to the flower of which 

 Chaucer likens the gentle knight Sir Thopas : 



" As swete as is the bramble flour, 

 That beareth the red hepe." 



This demurrer, therefore, does not affect the 

 validity of the claim which has been set up In 

 favour of an oriental origin for this convivial 

 refrain. 



As to hurrah ! If I be correct In my Idea of Its 

 parentage, there are fevf words still in use which 

 can boast such a remote and widely extended 

 prevalence. It is one of those interjections in 

 which sound so echoes sense, that men seem to 

 have adopted It almost instinctively. In India 

 and Ceylon, the Mahouts and attendants of the 

 baggage-elephants cheer them on by perpetual 

 repetitions of ur-re, ur-rel The Arabs and camel- 



