Aprix 27. 1850.] 
“Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.” — 
“E. V.” (p.215.Xis referred to Cicero De Officiis, 
lib. i. cap. 10., and Ovid, Meé. lib. xv. 165. et seqq. 
“Vor preterea nihil.” —“C. W. G.” (p. 247.) 
is also referred to Ovid, Met. lib. iii. 397., and 
Lactantius, lib. iii. Fab. v. These are the nearest 
approximations I know. A. W. 
Vox Populi Vor Dei.—The words “ Populi vox, 
vox Der,” stand as No. 97. among the “ Aphorismi 
Politici ex Ph. Cominco,” in a small volume in 
my possession, entitled, — 
““ Aphorismi Politici et Militares, ete. par Lam- 
bertum Danzum collecti. Lugduni Batavorum. 
Cio 19¢ XXX Ix.” 
There is no reference given to book or chapter ; 
_ and, judging from the manner in which the apho- 
risms of Thucydides and Tacitus (which I have 
| been able to examine) are quoted, I fear it may 
be found that the words in question are rather a 
condensation of some paragraph by Des Comines 
than the ipsissima verba that he employed. 
| C. Fornes. 
Temple. 
The Cuckoo.—In respect to the Query of “G.” 
(No. 15. p. 230.), on the cuckoo, as the Welsh 
Ambassador, I would suggest that it was in allu- 
sion to the annual arrival of Welshmen in search 
of summer and other employment. As those wan- 
derers may have entered England about the time 
of the cuckoo’s appearance, the idea that the bird 
| was the precursor of the Welsh might thus become 
| prevalent. Also, on the quotation given by “ Perir 
AxprEe” (No. 18. p. 283.) of Welsh parsley, or 
hempen halters, it may have derived its origin from 
the severity practised on the Welsh, in the time 
of their independence, when captured on the En- 
glish side of the border, —the death of the prisoner 
eing inevitable. GoMER. 
Ancient Tiles (No. 11. p. 173.).— It may be in- 
teresting to your querist “ B.” to know that the 
seal of the borough of Chard, in the county of 
Somerset, has two birds in the position which he 
describes, with the date 1570. 8.8. 
Daysman (No. 12. p. 188., No. 17. p. 267.).—For 
quoted instances of this, and other obsolete words, 
see Jameson’s Bible Glossary, just published by 
Wertheim in Paternoster Row. 8.8. 
Safeguard (No. 17. p. 267.).—The article of 
dress for the purpose described is still used by 
farmers’ wives and daughters in the west of Eng- 
land, and is known by the same name. _—‘§. 8.8. 
Finkle (No, 24. p. 384.) means fennel. Mr. 
_ Halliwell (Dict. p. 357.) quotes from a MS. of the 
Nominale, “ fynkylsede, feniculum.” L. 
Gourders of Rain (No. 21. p. 335., No. 22. 
. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
419 
p- 357.).— Has the word “Gourders” any connec- 
tion with Gourtes, a stream, or pool? See Cot- 
grave’s Dict., and Kelham’s Dict. of the Norman 
Language. 
Geotere is the A.-S. word for “ melter ;” but may 
not the term be applied to the pourer out of any- 
thing? Gourd is used by Chaucer in the sense of 
a vessel. (See Prol. to the Manciple’s Tale.) 
C.I1, R. 
Urbanus Regius (No. 23. p. 367.).— The “de- 
lightful old lady” is informed that “‘ Urbanus Re- 
gius” (or Urban le Roi) was one of the reformers, 
a native of Langenargen, in Germany. His works 
were published under the title of Vita et Opera 
Urbani Regii, §c., Norib. 1562. His theological 
works have been translated into English, as the 
lady is aware. W. Francs Matuews. 
Kidderminster, April 7. 1850. 
Horns (No. 24. p. 383.).— Rosenmiiller ad 
Exodum xxxiv. 29. 
“ Ignorabat quod splenderet cutis faciei ejus. Vulgatus 
interpres reddidit. Jgnorabat quod cornuta esset fucies 
sua, quia verbum Karan denominativum nominis 
Keren, cornu; opinatus est denotare, cornua habere ; 
hine nata opinio, Mosis faciem fuisse cornutam. Sed 
nomen ]j> ob similitudinem et ad radios transferri, 
docet Habac. 111. 4. ubi de fulminibus dicitur. . . . 
Hie denotat emisit radias, i. e. splenduit.” LXX. 
Seddtaorat. Our version, shone. 
R. ad Psal. xxii. seems to say, that in Arabic 
there is the like metaphor, of the sun’s rays to a 
deer’s horns. R. adds, that the Jews also attri- 
buted horns to Moses in another sense, figura- 
tively for power, as elsewhere. 
Tauriformis.—'The old scholiasts on Horace 
say that rivers are always represented with horns, 
“propter impetum et mugitum zquarum.” 
“ Corniger Hesperidum fluvius.” 
An old modern commentator observes, that in 
Virgil “ Rhenus bicornis,” rather applies to its two 
eestuaries. 
When Milton says (xi. 831.) “push’d by the 
horned flood,” he seems rather to mean, as New- 
ton explains him, that “rivers, when they meet 
with anything to obstruct their passage, divide 
themselves and become horned as it were, and 
hence the ancients have compared them to bulls,” 
* C. B. 
[*«M.” (Oxford) refers our correspondent to Faecio- 
lati, Lexicon, ed. Bailey, voc. Cornu. ] 
Horns (No. 24. p. 383.).— 1. Moses’ face, Ex. 
ch. xxxiv. (karan, Heb.), shot out beams or horns of 
light (from heen, Heb.); so the first beams of the 
rising sun are by the Arabian poets compared to 
horns, Absurdly rendered by Aqu. and Vulg. 
(facies) cornuta erat. Whence painters represent 
Moses as having horns. — Gesenius, Heb. Lex. 
