Mat 17. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



397 



"Apres moi le Deluge" (Vol. iii., p. '299.). — This 

 sentiment is to be t'ound in u verse of a Greek 

 tragedian, cited in Sueton. Nero, c. 38. : 



" 'EjUoO ^avivros ytua jxi)(QT)Ta> nupi." 



Suetonius says that some one, at a convivial 

 party, having quoted this line, Nero outdid him 

 by adding, Inimo e/xoS ^wvms. Nero was not con- 

 tented that tlie conflagration of tiie world should 

 occur after his deatli ; he wished that it should 

 take place during his lifetime. 



Dio Cassias (Iviii. 23.) attributes this verse, not 

 to Nero, but to Tiberius, who, he says, used Ire- 

 quentiy to repeat it. See Piov. (app. ii. 56. )i where 

 otlier allusions to this verse are cited in the note 

 of Leutsch. L. 



[We are indebted for a similar reply to C. B., who 

 quotes the line from Euripides, Fragni. Inc. B. x.wii. ] 



^'' Apres moi" or ^^aprcs nous le Deluge" sounds 

 like a modernisation of the ancient verse, — 

 " 'E/ioO davivTOS yaia /xixSiitw irufji" 



the use of which has been iuiputed to the emperor 

 Nero. The spirit of Madame de P()ni[)adour"s 

 saying breatlies the same selfish levity ; and it 

 amounts to tlie same thing. But it merits remark 

 that the words of Metternich were of an entirely 

 distinct signification. They did not imply that he 

 cared only for himself and the atfairs of his own 

 life ; but that he anticipated the inability of future 

 ministers to avert revolution, and foreboded the 

 worst. Two persons mav use the same words, and 

 yet their sayings be as diffjrent as the first line of 

 Homer from the first of Virgil. The omission of 

 the French verb disguises the fact, that tlie one 

 was said in the optative, and the other in the future 

 indicative. A. N, 



Eisall, the meaning of which has been much 

 discussed in the pages of " Notes .\n"d Queries," 

 is a word which seems to have been once the com- 

 mon term for vinegar. The Festivid in the sermon 

 for St. INIicliael's day employs this term thus : 

 . " .\n'l ot'.ier aiigeliis wiili hi (St. Michael) shall 

 brynge al the Instruinetis of our lordis pas^yoii, the 

 crosse; the croH'iie; spere ; iiayles ; hamer ; sponge; 

 eyseel; gall, scourcies t all other tiiynges y' we atte 

 cristis passyon."— /io«en, a. d. H99,/o. cl. b. 



D. Rock. 



" To-day loe purpose" (Vol. iii., p. 302 ). — The 

 verse for which your correspondent G. N. inquires, 

 IS taken from IsaJiellu, or the Pot of Busil, an ex- 

 quisitely beautiful poem by Keats, founded on one 

 of Uoccaccio's tales. K. J. M. 



Modern Paper (Vol. iii., p. 181.). — Coidially do 

 I agree with every word of your correspondent 

 LviiuATOK ruMPuttis .\cTi, and especially as to 

 the prayer-books fijr churches an<l chapels, printeil 

 by the Universities. Experto crede, no solicitude 



can preserve their "flimsy, brittle, and cottony" 

 leaves, as he justly entitles them, from ra[)id (le- 

 struclion. Might not the delegates of the Uiu- 

 versity presses be persuaded to give us an edition 

 with the morning and evening services printed on 

 vellum, instead of the miserable fabric they now 

 afford us ? C. \V. B. 



St. Pancras (Vol. iii., p. 285.). — In Breviar. 

 Rom. sub die XII Mali, is the following brief no- 

 tice of this youthful saint, whose martyrdom was 

 also commemorated (Sir H. Nicolas' Citron, of 

 Hint.) on April 3 and July 21 : 



" Pancratius, in Phvygia nobili genere natus, puer 

 quatortleeim aiinorum Komam veiiit Diocletiano et 

 Maximiaiio Imperatoribus : ubi a PontiHce iloinano 

 bap;i/;atus, et in fiJe Christiana eruditus, ob eanidcm 

 paulo post coniprehensiis, cum dlis sacrlficare constanter 

 renuisset, virili fortitLuline datis cervicibus, illustrem 

 martyrii coionam consecutus est j cujus corpus Octa- 

 villa inatroiia noetu sustulit, et unguentis delibutum 

 via Aurelia sepelivit." 



Amongst the reliques in the church of St. John 

 of Latei-ane, in " the glorious mother-city of 

 Rome," Oniq)hrius (de Vll. Urbis Ecclesiis) and 

 Serraniis (de Ecclesiis Urbis Rom.), as quoted by 

 Wm. Crashaw (temp. James I.), enumerate : 



" Item, caput Zacharire Prophets, et caput SanctI 

 Pancratii de quo sanguis emauavit ad tres dies quuin 

 Ecelesia Lateraiiensis coiiibusta full." 



CoWGILL. 



Joseph NicolsotLS Family (Vol. iii., p. 243.). — 

 A. N. C. is justlv corrected as to the insertion of 

 the letter h in Dr. Wm. Nicolson's name, though 

 it has been adopted by some of his family since. 

 The mother of Dr. Wm. and Joseph Nicolson 

 was Mary Brisco, of Crofton ; not Mary Miser. 



I find from Nichols' Correspondence of Dr. Wm. 

 Nicolson, that his brother Jose[)h was Master of 

 the Apothecaries' Comjiany in London. He died 

 ill May, 1724. He lived in Salisbury Court, where 

 it would appear the Bishop resided at least on one 

 occasion that he was in London. JIonkstown. 



Demosthenes and New Testament (Vol. iii., p. 350.). 

 — The quotations from Demosthenes, and many 

 others more or less pointed, are to be found, as 

 might be expected, in the well-known, very learned, 

 and standai'd edition of the New Testament by 

 Wetstein. C. B. 



Crossing Hirers on Skins (Vol. iii., p. 3 ). — To 

 th.'Laliu authors cited by Janus Dousa illustrating 

 this practice, allow me to add the following from 

 the Greek. Xenophon, in his Anabasis, lib- iii. 

 ca[). v., so clearly e.Khihits the modus operandi, that 

 I shall give a translation of the passage : 



" .\iid while they were at a loss what to do, a cer- 

 tain llbodiaii caine uji and said, ' I am ready to ferry 

 you over, O men ! by 40 JO heavy armed men at a 



