July 6. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



91 



Artemidorus may certainly have been the first 

 who recorded the scomma ; but the words Kara, rh 

 \€y6jxivov would almost justify us in supi^osing 



that 



« The horn 



Was a crest ere he was born." 

 Menage (referred to above) evidently lays some 

 stress on the following epigram, as an illustration 

 of the question : — 



""Oo-TiJ eero) Tupovs KaraKafiSavei obK ayopa^uv, 

 " Kti'cou 'A^aA9€ias »; yvvr] ian Kepas." 



Parmenon. Anthol. lib. ii. 



But T confess that I am utterly unable to see its 

 point, and therefore cannot, of course,^ trace its 

 connection with the subject. Falstaff, it is true, 

 speaks of the " horn of abundance," but then he 

 assigns it to the husband, and makes the " light- 

 ness' of the wife shine through it." {K. Henry IV. 

 Act i. Sc. 2., on which see Warburton's note.) 



C. Forbes. 

 Temple, April 25. 



L. C. may find the following references of ser- 

 vice to him in his inquiry into the origin of this 

 expression: — " Sohinus ad Luc. D. M. 1.2. ; 

 Jacobs ad Lucill. Epigr. 9.; Belin. ad Lucian, 

 t. iii. p. 326. ; Huschk. ^Anal. p. 168. ; Lambec. ad 

 Codin. § 126. ; Nodell in Diario Class, t. x. p. 157. ; 

 Bayl. Diet, in Junono, not. E." Boissonade's note 

 in his Anecdota, vol. iii. p. 140. 



J. E. B. MAyoR. 



Marlborough College. 



aacplicS to iHttior caucrt't^. 



Skipster (Vol. ii., p. 30.). — If C. B. will consult 

 Dr. Latham's English Language, 2nd ed., he 

 will find that the termination ster is not merely 

 a notion of Tyrwhitt's, but a fact. Sempstress has 

 a double feminine termination. Sjmister is the only 

 word in the present English which retains the old 

 feminine meaning of the termination ster. 



E. S. Jackson. 



Three Dukes (Vol. ii., p. 9.).— I should like a 

 more satisfactory answer to this Query than that 

 given by C. (Vol. ii., p. 46.). I can give the 

 names of two of the Dukes (viz. Monmouth and 

 Albemarle) ; but who was the thii-d, and where can 

 a detailed account of the transaction be found 'i In 

 W^ades' British History chronologically arranged, 

 3rd edit. p. 2;30., is the following paragrai)h under 

 the date of Feb. 28, 1671 (that is, 1670-1) : — 



" The Duke of Monmouth, who had contrived the 

 outrajje on Coventry, in a drunken frolic with the 

 young Duke of Albemarle and others, <lelil)eratcly 

 kills a ward-be.ndle. Cliarles, to save his son, pardoned 

 all the murderers." 



The date given in the State Poems is Sunday 

 morning, Feb. 26th, 1670-1. Mr. Lister, in his 

 Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon (vol.ii. p. 492.), 

 thus alludes to the affair : — 



" The King's illegitimate son Monmouth, in com- 

 pany with the young Duke of Albemarle and others, 

 kills a watchman, who begs for mercy, and the King 

 pardons all the murderers." 



C. H. COOFEK. 



Cambridge, June 24. 1850. 



Bishops and their Precedence (Vol. ii., p. 9.). — 

 I believe bishops have their precedence because 

 they are both tempoi'al and spiriinal barons. Some 

 years ago, I took the following note from the 

 Gentleman s Mag. for a year between 1790 and 

 1800; I cannot say positively what year (fori 

 was very young at the time, and unfortunately 

 omitted to "note" it) : — 



" Every bishop has a temporal barony annexed to 

 his see. The Bishop of Durham is Earl of Sudbury 

 and Baron Evenwood ; and the Bishop of Norwich is 

 Baron of North walsham." 



Query, where may the accounts of the respective 

 baronies of the bishoprics be found ? 



Henry Kersley. 



Wliy Moses represented with Horns. — Your 

 correspondent H. W. (Vol. i., p. 420.) refers the 

 origin of what he calls " the strange practice of 

 making Moses appear horned" to a mistranslation 

 in the Vulgate. 1 send you an extract from Cole- 

 ridge which suggests something more profound 

 than such an accidental cause ; and explains the 

 statement of Boseiuuiiller (p. 419.), that the Jews 

 attributed horns to Moses " figuratively for 

 power :" — 



" When I was at Rome, among many other visits to 

 the tomb of Julius II., I went thither once with a 

 Prussian artist, a man of great genius and vivacity of 

 feeling. As we were gazing on Michael Angelo's 

 INIoses, our conversation turned on the horns and beard 

 of that stupendous statue ; of tlie necessity of each to 

 support the other ; of the superhuman etfect of the 

 former, and the necessity of the existence of both to 

 give a harmony and integrity both to the image and the 

 feeling excited by it. Conceive them removed, and 

 the statue would become wraiatural, without being 

 s(//)ernatural. We called to mind the horiis of the 

 rising sun, and I repeated the noble passage from Tay- 

 lor's Holy Dying. That horns were the emblem of 

 power and sovereignty among the Eastern nations; and 

 arc still retained as such in Abyssinia; the Achelous 

 of the ancient Greeks; and the probable ideas and 

 feelings that originally suggested the mixtiue of the 

 human and the brute form in the figure, by which they 

 realised the idea of their mysterious Pan, as represent- 

 ing intelligence blended with a darker power, deeper, 

 mightier, and more universal than the conscious in- 

 tellect of man; than intelligence — all these thoughts 

 passeil in ])rocession before our minds." — Coleridge's 

 Biiigrojihui Litciaria, vol. ii. p. 127. edit. 1817. 



