Feb. 25. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



169 



25. De Magistris Scholarum. 



' Who made that wond'rous animal a Sopli ?' 



Oxford Spy. 



26. Baccalaurei ad Clepsydram determinantes. 



• Nor stop, but rattle over every word, 

 No matter what, so it can not be heard.' 



Byron. 



27. De Vocum Great-go, Little-go, By-go, in con- 

 done quadam nupera perperam felici usu. 



'"Etj to avrb viroKoplfccrQar ecrri 5e viroKopifff^bs os 

 t\a.TTov irolei k. t. A. (iiXaSdadat Se 5e?.' — Aristotle. 



28. De statua matrona; venerabilis tjjs Goose nuper 

 defunctae in media Scholarum area collocanda. 



29. De statutorum nostrorum simplici perspicuitate. 



' ' 'Avapxcudv re Kal areAivrcuov tJ» irai>.' 

 Ephraim Jenkins, apud the Vicar of Wakefield. 



30. An Procuratorum pedissequi recte nominentur 

 Bull-dogs ? 



31. De passere intra Templum B. Maria? concionan- 

 tibus obstrepente per statutum coercendo. 



* *n Ziv fiaaiAtv toO <p64jfj.aros TovpviBtov.' 



32. Typographium Clarendonianum famae Univer- 

 sitatis male consulit, dum Cornelium Nepotem et alios, 

 id genus, libellos, in usum Scholarum imprimit. 



* Fama malum.' — Virg. 



' Quajrenda pecunia primum.' — Herat. 



S3. De celeberrima Matrona Knibbs ex Horatii 

 mente deificanda. 



' Divina tomacula porci.' 



34. Exemplo viri clarissimi Joannis Gutch pro- 

 batur mortales errori obnoxios esse. 



35. Petitur ut memoria viri prosapia ingenio et 

 moribus spectatissimi Guliehni Stuart oratione annua 

 celebretur. 



* Integer vitae scelerisque purus.'— Hor. 



• The merry poacher who defies his God.' 



Oxford Spy. 



36. Oxonia novo lumine vestita, gaudent Balaente 

 Atlantica;, exulant meretriccs, Procuratores otio ene- 

 cantur. 



* fls gktos 8>ixev rrjoSe ttjs aAafnrias.' 



' Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna.' — Virg. 



37. Probatur Bedellum Academicum vero et ge- 

 nuino sensu esse qunrtum Praadicabile ; quippe qui 

 comes adsit Vice-Cancellario omni soli et semper. 

 Doctissimus tamen Higgenbrockius Differentiam po- 

 tius esse putat, cujus hoec sunt verba : 



* Bedellus est de Vice-Cancellarii Essentia, 

 Nee potest dispensari cum absentia : 

 Nam sicat forma dat Esse Rei, 

 Sic Esse dat Bedellus ei.' 



Nee errat forsan vir clarissimus, si enim Collegii 

 cujusvis Prasfectum (genus) recte dividat Bedellus 

 adstans (Differentia), fit illico Species optata. — Dominus 

 Vice- Can. 



38. Tutorum et Examinatorum Oxoniensium pe- 

 titio Mediolanum transmissa, ut Auctorum deperdi- 

 torum restitutor nequissimus Angelus Mains, iste 

 male feriatus, oculis et virilibus mulctetur. 



39. Statuto quamprimum cautum sit, idque sub 

 pcenis gravissimis, ne quis ad Universitalis privilegia 

 admissus auctoris cujuspiam libros feliciter deperditos 

 invenire audeat, inventos hue asportet, imprimat, im- 

 primendos curet, denique impressos legat. 



Haec sunt et horum similia, Academici, quae favore 

 et Auspiciis vestris auctor sibi evolvenda destinat. Ei 

 investigandi tsedium, vobis delectatio, adsit, et honos 

 et gloria. In quantam molem assurgat materies tarn, 

 varia tam augusta non est in pra?senti ut pro certo 

 afrirmetur. Spes est, ut omnia rite collecta, in ordinem 

 breviter et eyicvicAoncub'iKoos redacta, voluminibus, form«\ 

 quam vocant ' Elephant- Quarto,' non plusquam tri- 

 ginta contineantur. 



Omnes igitur qui famam aut Academias aut suam 

 salvam velint, moras excutiant, Bibliopolam nostrum 

 integerrimum praesto adeant, symbolas conferant, dent 

 nomina, ut banc saltern a nobis immortalitatem conse- 

 quantur, alia fortasse carituri." 



J. B. 0. 



Loughborough. 



ASSAREYS IN MOUNT LEBANON. 



In the romance of l^ancred, Mr. D'Israeli 

 mentions the Ansareys, one of the tribes of Le- 

 banon, as worshipping the old heathen gods, 

 Jupiter, Apollo, and Astarte, or Venus. A 

 writer of fiction is certainly not expected to be 

 bound to fact ; but in such a matter as the present 

 religion of an existing people, I feel doubtful 

 whether to suppose this religion his own invention, 

 or if he has any authority for it, and its connexion 

 with pagan Antioch. A people of to-day retaining 

 the worship of the old gods of Greece and Syria, 

 is a matter of great interest. I have looked into 

 Volney's Travels in Syria and Egypt, and in some 

 later writers, but none of them state the paganism 

 of Tancred to be the religion of the Ansareys. 

 It is, however, said to be a mystery, so not impos- 

 sibly the account in Tancred may be the reality. 

 In the same work, the Sheikhs of Sheikhs, and 

 his tribe, the Beni-Rechab children of Rechab, 

 are said to be Jews on horseback, inhabiting the 

 desert, and resembling the wandering Arabs in 

 their mode of life. This also is curious, if there 

 be such a people ; and some of your readers ac- 

 quainted with the history and manners of Syria 

 may give information on these matters. The 

 other tribes of Lebanon are singular and equally 

 interesting : — the Maronites, Christians of the 

 Roman Catholic sect, who, however, allow their 

 priests to marry ; the Metualis, Mahomedans of 

 the sect of Ali ; and the Druses, whose religion is 

 unknown, and, as Lamartine tells us, was entirely 

 so to Lady Hester Stanhope, who lived years in 

 the middle of them. Volney divides the Ansareys 



