Dec. 28. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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pestilence in Italy. The emperor went to Lauren- 

 turn for the benefit of the smell of the laurel trees. 

 " Tn ipsa quoque iirbe de niedicorum sententia ple- 

 rique unguentis suavissimus nares atque aures opple- 

 bant, suflituque* et odoramentis assidua utebantiir, 

 quod meatus sensuuin (ut quidem dicunt) odoribus 

 illis occupati, neque admittant aera tabificum: et si 

 maxime admiserint, tamen eiim majore quasi vi longe 

 superari." 



This has nothing to do with the practice of 

 smoking, nor is it clear that they smoked these 

 things with a pipe into the mouth at all. The 

 medical use of fumigation, as Sir William Tem- 

 ple observes, was greatly esteemed among the an- 

 cients. But it is very probable that, being some- 

 times practised by means of pipes, it was what led 

 to the practice of smoking constantly, either for 

 general medical protection, or merely for luxury, 

 in countries and times too, when these epidemics 

 'from bad air were very common. The great love 

 of smoking among the Turks may be originally 

 owing to the plague. C. B. 



Antiquity of Sinaking (Vol. ii., pp. 41. 216. 

 465. ). — Mr. Lane, in his edition of the Arabian 

 Nights, infers the very late date of that bouk from 

 there being no mention of tobacco or coifee in it. 



As two of the ancient authorities have broken 

 down, it occurred to me that others might. 



The reference to Strabo vii. 296. leads me only 

 to this ; that the Mysians were called Ka-Kvo^araL 

 (some correct to KaTruoirdraC) because they did not 

 eat fanimals, but milk, cheese, and honey ; but of 

 religion, living quietly. 



One cannot imagine that this can be meant. I 

 referred to Almaloveen's edition, the old paging. 



In the next page he repeats the epithet, coupling 

 it, as before, with the word religious, and arguing 

 from both as having the same meaninsj. 



It occurrea to me that somebody nn'ght have 

 read /caTryovrrfTat, " funiuin bibentes," whicii might 

 have given occasion to the reference to this passage : 

 and I find in the English Passow that KUTrvofiSTui, 

 " smoke- eaters," has been proposed. 



Kanvovdrai is there derived from irdofxai. 



But if these are the readings, they can have 

 nothing to do with smoking, l)ut with religion. 

 From the context they would mean, as we say, 

 "living on air;" like Democritus, who subsisted 

 three days upon the steam of new loaves. 



KaTTvo^drai meant, as I believe, to describe their 

 religiousness more directly ; treading on the 

 clouds, living in the air : like Socrates in Aristo- 

 phanes, N€<p. 225. : 



" 'AfpofiaTtH Knl irtpKppovii rhv ^\iov" 



And in v. 3.30. Ka-nvhs is used of the clouds : 



" Mi Ai' oAA.' Sixlx^V *<*' Sp6(rov oiiTcks riyovfii.r)v (col 

 KaTrvhy dixu." 



* " dyfitd/xaffl rt koI btpdnaai avvtx'^^ ixfii'To." 



There is nothing in Solinus, cap. 15.; and Mela, 

 lib. ii., is too wide a reference. C. B. 



Meaning of the Word '"Thivaites" (Vol. ii., p. 441 .). 

 — The word "Thwayte" occurred in the ancient 

 form of the Bidding Prayer: " Ye shalle bydde for 

 tham, that this cherche honour with book, with bell, 

 with vestiments, with Thivayte," &c. This foim is 

 said to be above four hundred years old; and Palmer 

 says (Orig. Lit., iii. p. 60.) that we have memorials 

 of these prayers used in England in the fourteenth 

 century. Hearne remarks that the explication of 

 this word warranted by Sir E. Coke is " a wood 

 grubbed up and turned to arable." This land 

 being given to any church, the donors were thus 

 commended by the prayers of the congregation. 



In Yorkshire the word is so understood: Thwaite, 

 or "stubbed ground, ground that has been ess- 

 arted or cleaned." J. II. M. 



Meani)ig of "Thwaites" (Vol. ii., p. 441.).— 

 Hearne took the word " Thwayte " to signify " a 

 wood grubbed up and turned into arable." His ex- 

 planation, with other suggestions as to the mean- 

 ing of this word, may be found in a letier from 

 Hearne to Mr. Francis Cherry, printed in vol. i. 

 p. 194. of Letters written hy Eminent Persons in 

 the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, pub- 

 lished by Longman and Co. in 1813. J. P. Jb, 



December 5. 1850. 



Thomas Rogers of Horning er (Vol. ii., p. 424.). 



— Your correspondent S. G. will find a brief 

 notice of this person in Rose's Biographical Dic- 

 tionary, London, 1848. It appears he was rector 

 of Horninger, and a friend of Camden ; who pre- 

 fixed some commendatory verses to a work of his, 

 entitled The Anatomy of the Mind. I would sug- 

 gest to S. G. that further information may probably 

 be collected respecting him from these verses, and 

 from the prefiices, &c. of his other works, of 

 which a long list is given in Rose's Dictionary , 



T. H. Keeslet, A.B. 

 King William's Col., Isle of Man. 



Thomas Rogei's nf Horninger (Vol. ii., p. 424.). 



— If S. G. will apply to the Rev. J. Perowne, of 

 his own college, who is understood to be preparing 

 an edition of Rogers's work for the Parker Society, 

 he will doubtless obtiiiu the fullest information. 



A. H. 



Earl of Roscommon (Vol. ii., p. 468.). — A 

 pretended copy of the inscription at Kilkenny 

 West, mentioned by your correspondent An 

 Hibernian, was produced in evidence, on the 

 claim of Stephen Francis Dillon to the earldom of 

 Roscommon, before the House of Lords. As there 

 was reason to doubt (he evidence of the per.^on who 

 produced that copy, or the genuineness of the in- 

 scrifition ilself, tii<; House decided against that 

 claim ; and by admitting that of the late earl (de- 



