Oct. 11. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



285 



and persons ; it occurred about thirty years a^o. 

 A servant girl was capitally convicted of adminis- 

 tering poison to the household of a farmer, in a 

 fit of passion at some petty injury : a legal doubt 

 raised in her behalf was submitted for considera- 

 tion in London, and some months elapsed in de- 

 termining it. During the interval, her character 

 and conduct being good, she came to be employed 

 as a servant in the household of the governor of 

 the gaol, then situated in an old gatehouse at the 

 entrance of the Bailey; and one of my informants 

 has seen her drawing water at the pant in tlie 

 market place, two or three hundred yards from 

 the gaol, in the heart of the town. One morning 

 the governor and all Durham were struck with 

 horror at the receipt of an order for her execu- 

 tion, within three days ; the city being then two 

 days by coach from London, and an appeal for 

 compassion impossible. The execution, singularly, 

 was attended with distressing circumstances. The 

 rope employed broke, another was not at hand : 

 and the wretched girl sat crying under the beam, 

 until a man sent into the town (in a field outside 

 of which, on the Newcastle road, this scene oc- 

 curred) could return with another cord, with 

 which he was seen flogging his horse up to the 

 gallows. So I have been told by grave and trust- 

 worthy witnesses. F. 



Sta7izas in " Ckilde Harold" (Vol. iv., p. 223.). 

 — Surely nothing can be clearer than the con- 

 struction in the lines quoted by your corre- 

 spondent T. W. : 

 " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee^ 



Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are tliey ? 



Thy waters wasted them while they were free, 



And many a tyrant since (has wasted them)." 



To add one word to confirm what is so trans- 

 parent, would be merely occupying your space 

 without the slightest necessity. Jas. Crosslet. 



[J. G. R., H. C. K., J. Ms., H. L., Chas. Paslam, 

 J. A. PiCTON, A. E. B., G. S., C. B., Seleucus, Edw. 

 S. Jackson, H. M. A., and many other friends, have 

 kindly furnished similar replies to T. W.'s Query, 

 some at considerahle length. We have tlierefore se- 

 lected the above, as one of the shortest and first that 

 reached us.] 



Gray and Virgil. — Your correspondent on 

 Gray's plagiarisms (Vol. iii., p. 445.) quotes 

 Davenant and Prior as having both forestalled 

 his idea with regard to sorrow, that — 



"Where ignorance is bliss, 

 'Tis folly to be wise." 

 I long since noted these lines as parallel to — 



i>OOVU) 5', & TTaTXCtf • Kal to5' oO (Tfillcp'bV KlUUf 



ri) jui) flSivai ya/) rjSovhv ex*' Ttfct 

 voaovfTa • KfpSoi 8' tV kukoTs dyvuiria, 



Euripid, Fraj. Anllop. xiii. 



In tlie next page of " Notes and (Queries," 



Q. E. D. reasonably defends the expression 

 " Thaniesini Uttoris hospes." The exact distinction 

 between litliis and ripa is marked indeed by Ovid, 

 where he says of the rivers : 

 " In mare perveniunt partim, campoque recepta 



Libsriorisaqus, ^jrori/x's litlora pulsant." — Met. i. 41. 



But this did not prevent his applying litlora to 

 a lake : 

 " Sint tlbi Flamlniiis Thrasyincnaqae litlora testes." 



Fast. vi. 7G5. 



Both lie and Virgil use Uttus, speaking of tlie 

 same river : 



" Littles adit Laurens ; ubl tectiis anindine sorplt 

 In freta flumineis vicina Numicius undis." 



Met. xlv. 5 93. 



Here, howevei-, there might be a questiou from 

 the context: not so, however, in y^n. vii. 797. : 

 " Qui saltus, Tlherine, tuos, sacrunique Numici 



Littus arant." 



On the other hand we have ripa for littus : 

 " jEquoris nigri fremitum, et tremontcs 



Verbere ripas." 

 Hor. Od. III. xxvii. a.S. 



Effigies. 

 Stamford. 



Anlus Gellius Description of a Dimple (Vol.! v., 

 p. 134.). — The couplet quoted by your oin-re- 

 spondent Rt. is from Varro, and I think he will 

 find it given by Mad. Dacier in her edition of 

 Anacreon, under Ode xxviii., line 26. : 

 " rpvcpepov S' tciu yeyeiov," &c. 



■an 



If your correspondent Kt. will refer to Gray's 

 Works, vol. ii. p. 164., edited by jMitford, and pub- 

 lished by Pickering, 1836, he will find the follow- 

 ing note : — 



" The fragment is not to be found in Aulus Gellius, 

 but in Mori Marcellus, under the word ' Mollitudo.' " 



Now what j\fori Marcellus means, I know not : 

 perhaps some of your correspondents may enlighten 

 me on that point. Henry Dyke. 



Grotworth, near Brackley, Aug. 25. 1851. 



This i\Iori Marcellus I take to be the same 

 person as Marcellus Nonius, of whom an account 

 is to be found in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and 

 Roman Biography, Sj'c, vol. ii. p. 937. F. Bw. 



fHt^CEirniTCfluS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGDES, ETC. 



There is one feature in Murray's Reading for the 

 Rail, namely, that of m.iking the volumes not of one 

 uniform price, but varying from One Shilling and 

 upwards, the advantages of which are shown very 

 clearly by the first two of the series which have 

 appeared. For it would have been a difficulty tor the 

 most Procrustean of editors to have compressed The 

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