Oct. 25. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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acquired a more modern type, by a great suscep- 

 tioii of Greek, Tartarian, Latin, Turkish, and 

 German phrases ami constructions. Fortunately, 

 however, there have been other branches of this 

 huge nation-tree, which, settled on the shores of 

 the German ocean, afar from the tracts of migra- 

 tion and the stations of war, have escaped the 

 influence of the changes contingent on the conten- 

 tions nnd intercourse of men. And thus, the Old 

 Prussian, the Lithuauian, and the Lettish tongues 

 (dialects) have escaped, as it were, the changes of 

 improvement, and have remained, in the mouth of 

 the aboriginal inhabitants, such as they were many 

 centuries ago. If the mythology of the Slavian 

 nations, and their universal complex of languages, 

 are undoubtedly Indian (Sanscrit), the above- 

 named three dialects liave retained most of their 

 primordial type. I subjoin the Lord's Prayer, 

 written in these tliree ancient Slavonic dialects, 

 now hardly understood by any other save those 

 very same tribes. The approximation to Sanscrit 

 is most striking, and deserves the notice of philo- 

 logists. As a number of persons conversant with 

 Sanscrit, and even the dialects spoken in India, 

 are to be met with in the British capital, their 

 attention is most respectfully called to these vene- 

 rable remains of old Paiisluvic tongues. 



Dr. J. LoTSKY, Panslave. 

 8. Robert Street, Hampstead Road. 



THE r.OUn's PRAYER. 



Old Prussian. 



Tava nuson, kas tu essei en dangon, svintints 

 virst tvais emnes ; pereit tvais ryks ; tvais quaits 

 audasin kagi en dandon tyt deigi no semien, nuson 

 deinennin geitien dais nunians san deinan ; bhe 

 etverpeis numas nusons ausautlns, kainies etveipi- 

 mai nusons ausautenikamans; bhe ni veddeis mans 

 em perbandasnan, ilait isrankeis mans esse vissan 

 vargan. 



Lithuanian. 



Tive musii, kurs essi danguie, te essie sventTnmas 

 tavo vardas ; te ateinie tavo karaliste ; te nusidudie 

 tavo vale, kaip danguie laip ir ant zemes; duna 

 musii diesniska duk mums ir sa diena; ir atteisk 

 mums musil kattes, kaip mes atteidsam savo kat- 

 tiemus; ir ne vesk mus i pagundiina, bet geibek 

 mus nu piklo. 



Letton (Lettish.) 



_Miisu tevs debbesis, svelils lai top tavs vanls, 

 lai nak tava vulstiba; tavs prals lai noteck, ka 

 debbesis ta arridzan zeinmes virzu; musil deenisku 

 maiz dud mums soileeii ; un i)ametli mums miisu 

 parradus, ka arrimes ])amettam saveem jianad- 

 neekeem ; un ne eeveddi mus eeks kardinasanas, 

 bet atpesti mus no ta launa. 



MONUMENTAL BUST OF SHAKSPEAKE. 



Mr. T. Kite, the parish clerk of Stratford-on- Avon, 

 has recently completed a copy in imitation stone 

 fiom a cast C)f the monumental bust of Shakspeare, 

 which appears to me, after a very close and minute 

 comparison, to be a far more faithful transcript of 

 the original than any of the kind hitherto accessible 

 to the public. It gives in detail most accurately 

 those peculiarities which led Sir F. Chantrey to 

 the opinion that the artist worked from a cast 

 made after death ; and if you would kindly spare 

 a few lines of your paper for a paragraph to that 

 effect, I feel sure you would not only confer a 

 benefit on Shakspearian collectors, but at the same 

 time pay a just tribute to Mr. Kite, for the intel- 

 ligent pains he has bestowed upon the work. It 

 is scarcely necessary to say an accurate copy of 

 the Stratford bust is the best memorial of Shak- 

 speare the public can possess, it being so much 

 superior in authenticity to any other resemblance. 



J. O. Halliwell. 



Stratford on Avon, Oct. 15. 



NOTES ON PASSAGES IN VIKGIl. 

 L " Acti Fatis."— Virff. jSEn.i. S6. 



" SI fiitis, n\dla Junonis invidia est. Si Junonis in- 

 vidia fatigabantur rjuomodo dicit acti fatis 9 Sed hoc 

 ipsum Junonis odium fatale est. Agebantur fatis 

 Junonis, i.e. voluntate ; \e\ fatis, \yro malis, ut iii. 182." 

 — Servius. 



'• Non tarn quonlam hoc Junonis odium fatale erat, 

 ut Servius ; sed potius, quoniain hi ipsi Trojanorum, 

 errores fatales erant." — Heyne. 



Not only these two, but all other commentators 

 and translators, as far as I know, have wholly mis- 

 taken the meaning of this passage, which is not 

 that the Trojans wei-e jactati, fatigati, or agitnti, 

 harassed, or driven hither and thither by the fates, 

 (actus being never used in the sense assigned to it 

 in such interpretation), but simply that they were 

 driven onivard, or toward Latiimi, by the fates (acti 

 fatis) ; while at the same time they were driven 

 backward, or from Latium, by Juno, (arcebat longe 

 Latio). The result was " multos per annos erra- 

 bant maria omnia circum :" words could not more 

 clearly express the opposition of the ibrces be- 

 tween which the Trojans were placed; an opposi- 

 tion on -which hangs the whole action of the poem. 

 The invidia of Juno, concerning which Servius 

 queries, was manifested by her using her utmost 

 exertions to ])revent the Trojans i'rom arriving at 

 the i)lace toward which they were impelled by the 

 fates, ('. c. at which it was fated tliev should arrive. 



As "acti fatis" liere, so " lato profugus venit," 

 verse G ; "sedes ubi fata quietas oslendunt," verse 

 209 ; " data fata secutus," verse 38C ; " fata deum 

 vesti'as e.\(piircre terras im])eriis ege?-e suis" (A£n. 

 vii. 239.); "fatisque vocautia regna" (^h.v. G56.); 



