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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 104. 



iXeplisi to Miliar &utxiti. 



MS. Note in a Copy of Liber Sententiarum 

 (Vol. iv., pp. 188. 282.). — For the information of 

 W. S. ^V. I beg to notify that the "mundane era" 

 quoted by bim is the Septuagint era of Venerable 

 Bede, who, in his chronology of the world, uses 

 two eras ; one of which he calls " juxta Hebraicam 

 veritatem," the other, "juxta septuaginta inter- 

 pretes." 



He makes the concurrence of these with a.d. 1, 

 at the birth of Christ, to be respectively as fol- 

 lows : — 



A.M. 3952. A.M. Sep. 5300. a.d. 1. 



The two latter, as W. S. AV. will perceive, are 

 e.xactly in the same relation as those in the MS. 

 note. 



I should also suggest that " S " may be the 

 initial in the writer s name, and not " T " : in 

 which case "*. T." probably signifies " quam 

 tribuit." A. E. B. 



P. S. — Upon a second reference to the com- 

 munication of W. S. W. I find that the above 

 dates are not consistent with those quoted by him, 

 but differ by exactly a hundred years : that this 

 should be the exact difference is very singular, 

 and would lead me to suspect that there might 

 have been a mistake in transcription, were it not 

 that in his smaller work Bede has this sentence : 



" Hiijus anno Dominus nascitur, completis ab Adam 

 annis 3952. — Juxta alios, 5199." 



Naturalis proles (Vol. iv., p.l 61 .). — Undoubtedly 

 in ^jaX\n naturalis is opposed to "adopted;" e.g. 

 " P. Scipio . . naturalis consulis Paulli, aduptione 

 Africani nepos." (I>ivy, xliv. 44.) I stumbled 

 some time ago upon the following : 



•' The Act of Settlement by wliich Napoleon, Em- 

 peror of France, was declared King of Italy, with the 

 riglit of succession lo his sons natural or adopted, and 

 male heirs. . . . He declared that he accepted, and 

 would defend, the iron crown; and that even during 

 his lifetime lie would consent to separate the two 

 crowns, and pl.ice one of Ids natural or adopted sons 

 upon the throne." — .Alison's History, chap, xxxix. 

 §§38,39. 



I have no means of ascertaining whether this is 

 a literal rendering from the French document. If 

 I may trust my Dictionnaire de V Academie, this 

 sense of the word is unknown to the French lan- 

 guage, as well as to ours. Charles Thirtold. 



Print cleaning (Vol. iv., p. 175.). — The following 

 method is given as infallible by i\Ir. Stannard in 

 the Art-Union for 1847, pp. 179. 261. : 



" Immerse the print for an hour or so in a lye made 

 by adding to the strongest muriatic acid its own weight 

 in water, and to three parts of this mixture adding one 

 of red oxide of lead, or black oxide of manganese. A 

 print, if not quickly cleaned, may remain in the liquid 

 tnenty-four hours without harm. Indian ink stains 



should in the first instance be assisted out with hot 

 water. Pencil marks, if carefully done, should be 

 partially rubbed out with India rubber or day-old 

 bread ; that is, if it can be safely done, as rubbing an 

 engraving is always hazardous. If the print had been 

 mounted, the paste on the back should be tlioronglily 

 removed with warm water. The saline crystals left 

 by the solution may be removed by repeated rinsings 

 with warm water." 



Altron. 



Story referred to hy Jeremy Taylor (Vol. iv., 

 ]ip. 208. 262.). — My copy oi Don Quixote has the 

 following note on the passage referred to by 

 Mr. C. H. Cooper : — 



" Two old men appeired before Sanc/to, etc. — I l)elieve 

 this story is told, for the first time, in some of the 

 Talmudic writings ; but Cervantes, in all probability, 

 took it from the Legenda .4urea Jacobi de Voragine, in 

 which monkish collection it occurs in these words: 



" ' Vir quidam ab uno Jud;eo quamdam summam 

 pecunia? niutuo acceplt, jurans super altare Sancti 

 Nicolai quod quam citius posset slbl redderet. Tenente 

 antem illo diu pecuniam JudaL'usex])Ostulavlt: sed earn 

 sibi reddidisse affirmat. Trahit ergo eum ad judicem 

 et jnramentum indicitnr debitorl : Ille baculum cava- 

 tum quem auro minuto impleverat secum detulerat, ac 

 si ejus adminiculo indigeret ; Volens igltur facere jura- 

 mentum Juda;j baculum tradidit ser\andum. Juravit 

 quod plus sibi reddiderat etiam quam debet ; et facto 

 juremento baculum repetiit. Et Jud.-eus ignorans as- 

 tuti.i eum sibi reddidit. Rediens autem qui fraudem 

 fecerat in quodam bivio oppressus corruit somno : 

 Currusque eum, cum impetu veniens, necuit, et bacu- 

 lum plenum auro fregit, et aurum elfudit.' 



" The conclusion of the story is, that the Jew having 

 received his money, was earnestly entreated to acknow- 

 ledge his sense of the Divine interposition in his favour, 

 by receiving bajjlism. He said he would do so if Saint 

 Nichol IS would, at his prayer, restore the dead man to 

 life. The saint was, without much difficulty, induced 

 to do this, and the Jew became an edifying specimen of 

 conversion. See the chapter de Sancto Nicolao." — 

 The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of 

 La Muncha ; translated from t/ie Spanish by Motteux. 

 A new Edition, with copious Notes, S^c. Edinburgh, 

 1822, vol. v. p. 334. 



May not Jeremy Taylor, in the passage cited 

 from the Ductor Dubitantiuvi ( " Notes and 

 Queries," Vol. iv., p. 208.), have been quoting 

 from viemory, and confused the Talmudic (?) 

 legend with a well-known passage in Juvenal, 

 Sat. xiii. 1 99—207. ? Compare — 



" The Greek that denied the depositum of his friend, 

 and offered to swear at the altar," 

 with 



" Spartano cuidam respondit Pythia vates ; 

 Hand impunitura quondam fore, quod dubitaret 

 Depositum retinere et fraudem Jure tueri 

 Jurando." 



The Spartan's name was Glaucus. The story is 

 told at large in Herodot. vi. 86. See Stocker's 



