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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 102. 



" The poor people, ivlio in contempt were called 

 Whiggs, became name-lathers to all that owned one 

 honest interest in Britain, who were called AVhiggs 

 after them, even at the court of England." 



That the term Whig was originally from Scot- 

 land, I believe is a well-ascertained fact ; but while 

 some of our etymologists follow the opinion of 

 Burton, others, with (as I think) greater show of 

 reason, adhere to the opinion of Roger North and 

 the historians Laing and Lingard, all of whom 

 were of opinion that the original Scotch AVhigs 

 were called so, not, as Burnet supposes, from the 

 word used by them in driving their horses, but 

 from the word "Whig being vernacular in Scotland 

 for sour whey, which was a common drink with 

 the people. David Stevens. 



Godalraing. 



THE EECOVEKY OF THE I-OST AUTHORS OF AN- 

 TIQUlTr. 



(Vol. ill., pp. 161. 261. 340.) 



" *6'p, &, ToKalvri X^'P^ "''"" TpicraflAiou 

 opBciis ■Kpo(Tapix6(j'jSfiev eijrovov tc nav 

 awjx' e^aKpiSacrafief, els uffov ndpa." 



Eurip. Baccli. Supplement. 



" With a wretched hand, 

 " Come let me this thrice wretched corse compose, 

 And careful as I can the limbs collect." 



The foregoing lines, from Burgess's able re- 

 storation of this splendid scene in the Baccha 

 of Euripides, published in the Gentleman's Maga- 

 zine for Sept. 1832, and afterwards without tlie 

 Greek text in the Literary Gazette for Oct. 11, 

 1843, form a fit motto for the undertaking in 

 which I am engaged, and of which I now present 

 a sort of report to literary men interested in such 

 matters. 



No one, in my opinion, should endeavour to 

 satisfy querists about a design more than the 

 original proposer of such design, and I am the 

 rather induced to make a few remarks, the subject 

 having been passed over with a silence rendered 

 reniai-kable by the importance of niy proposal. 

 Two correspondents, however, having come for- 

 ward with additional suggestions and remarks, I 

 feel myself possessed of a pretext to touch upon 

 the subject once more. The following will show 

 what common steadiness and attention have been 

 able to bring about. 



I have so far accomplished my piu'pose, as lately, 

 while residing on the continent, and also since my 

 return, to establish in Russia, Siberia and Tartary, 

 Persia, and Eastern Europe, stations for the search 

 after all INISS. worth attention. I hope, therefore, 

 to be enabled ere long, through the co-operation 

 of my friends abroad, to present the world with 

 something more solid than mere promises, and 

 more satisfactory to classical critics and lovers of 



antiquity like myself. Especially I expect from 

 my Tartary correspondent some interesting and 

 valuable Hebrew MSS., of which there are many 

 to be obtained toward the frontier of China and 

 in that country. I unfortunately missed such a 

 MS. some years ago, which a sailor had offered to 

 me, whom I am now unable to find. I earnestly 

 solicit every Oriental traveller to co-operate with 

 me. 



The proposal of Dr. Arnold, quoted by M. N. 

 (Vol. iii., p. 261.), I did not mention, although I 

 was aware of it, as it is at present nest to an im- 

 possibility to carry it out in the disturbed state of 

 Continental Europe, useful as I allow it to be. 



Your correspondent J. M. (Vol. iii., p. 340.) 

 asks what has been accomplished at Herculaneum 

 in the late investigations. Alas! a few thin folios 

 at my side contain all that the most unwearied 

 exertion, and ever-renewed patience, have been 

 able to bring to light. A few tracts of Epicuros, 

 Philodemos, Colotos, Polystratos, Demetrios, and 

 Carneiscos, are the results of the labours at the 

 " City of the Dead." It is much to be desired that 

 the investigations should be recommenced when 

 the troubled condition of the kingdom of Naples 

 will admit of it. I refer J. M. to M. Morgen- 

 stern's excellent article on the subject in the 

 Classical Journal, vol. vii. p. 272. sqcj., and the 

 Herculanensium Voliiminum, Oxonii, 1824 — 1825 

 (Press-mark, 604 f 15, British Museum), and the 

 splendid folios of Naples, 1793 — 1844 (Press-mark, 

 813 i 2.). Kenseth 11. H. Mackenzie. 



MS. NOTE IN A COPY OP EIBEB SENTENTIARUM. 



(Vol. iv., p. 188.) 



Peter Lombard, Gratian, and Comestor (Vol. iv., 

 p. 188.). — Your coi-respondent W. S. W. alludes 

 to the above-mentioned worthies. 1 extract from 

 Bishop Jeremy Taylor a passage or two in sup- 

 port of the story of their brotherhood : 



" It is reported of the mother of Peter Lombard, 

 Gratian, and Comestor, that she having had three sons 

 begotten in unhallowed embraces, upon her death-bed 

 did omit the recitation of those crimes to her confessor ; 

 adding this for apology, that her three sons proved 

 persons so eminent in the church, that their excellency 

 was abundant recompense for her demerit; and there- 

 fore she could not grieve, because God had glorified 

 Himself so much by three Instruments so excellent : 

 and that although her sin had abounded, yet God's grace 

 did mperabomid. Her confessor replied, ' At dole 

 saltern, quod dolere non possis (Grieve that thou canst 

 not grieve).'" — Sermon " On the Invalidity of a late or 

 death-bed Repentance." Sermons, p. 234. Lend. 1678. 



And again : 



" To repent because we cannot repent, and to 

 grieve because we cannot grieve, was a device invented 

 to servo the turn of the mother of Peter Gratian." — 



