So understood, 1st, the passage is according to 

 Virgirs usual manner, the latter part of the line 

 explaining and defining the general statement 

 contained in tlie former ; and, 2ndly, Pallas kills 

 her enemv, not by the somewhat roundabout and 

 unusual method of first striking him with thunder, 

 and then snatching him up in a whirlwind, and 

 then either dashing him against a sharp rock, and 

 leaving him impaled there, or, as I have shown is 

 undoubtedly the meaning, impaling him with a 

 sharp rock, but by the more compendious and less 

 out-of-the-way method of first striking him with 

 thunder, and then whirling a sharp-pointed rock 

 on top of him, so as to impale him. 



From Milton's imitation of this passage, in his 

 Paradise Lost (ii. 180.), it appears that even he 

 fell into the general and double error : 



" Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled> 

 Each on his rock transfixed." 



Caro's translation shows that he had no definite 

 idea whatever of the meaning : 



" A tale im turbo 

 In preda il die ;. che per acuti scogli 

 Miserabil iie fe' rajiina, e seempio." 



V. " Ast ego, quae Divum incedo regina, Jovisque 

 Et soror et conjux, una cum gente tot annos 

 Bella gero." — JEn. i. 50. 

 " Incedere ' wird besondcrs von der feierlichen, 

 wiirdevollen Haltung iin Gange gebraucht : vers 500, 

 von der Dido, 'Regina incessit.' (Rulink. zu Terent. 

 And. I. i. 100. Eun. v. 3. 9.) Deslialb der majesta- 

 tischen Juno eigenthiimlich, 'HpoToj/^SaSifeii'. Also nicht 

 fiir sum, sondern ganz eigentlich." — Thld. 



" But I who walk in awful state above." 



Dryden, 

 " Iiicedere est ingredi, sed proprle cum quadam pompa 

 et fastu." — Gesner. 



" Incessus dearum, imprimis Junonis, gravitate sua 

 notus." — Heyne. 



And so also Holdsworth and Rua?us. 



I think, on the contrary, that incedo, both here 

 and elsewhere, expresses only the stepping or 

 walking motion generally : and that the character 

 of the step or walk, if inferable at all, is to be 

 inferred only from the context. Accordingly, 

 "Magnifice incedit" (Liv. ii. 6.) ; " Tui*pe inee- 

 dere" (CatuU. xxxxii. 8.); " MoUiter incedit" 

 (Ovid, Amor. ii. 2.3.); " Pa^su incedit inert!" 

 (Ovid, Melam. ii. 772.) ; "Melius est incessu regem 

 quam im|)erium regno claudicare" (Justin, vi. ii. 

 6.); "Incessus omnibus animalibus certus et uni- 

 usmrxli, et in suo, cuique, genere" (Plin. x. 38.). 



The emphasis, therefore, is on retina, and the 

 meaning is, I who atcp, or walk, Quehn of the Gods; 

 the dignity of the ste;) being not expressed by 

 "incedo," but inferable from " regina." The ex- 

 pression corresponds exactly to " ibit regina" 

 (.^rt. II. 578.) ; with this difierence only, that 



"ibit" does not, like " incedo," specify motion on 

 foot. 



"Jovisque et soror et conjux." — Both the eti 

 are emphatic. " Jovisque el soror et conjux." 



"Bella" expresses the organised resistance 

 which she meets, and the uncertainty of the issue; 

 and being placed first word in the line is emphatic. 



James Henry. 



iHtnar iJotr^. 



Verses presented to General Monck. — The sub- 

 joined notice of a curious entry in the records of 

 the Belfast corporation may be acceptable. Tlie 

 author is unknown. They are inscribed, " Verses 

 to General jMonck," and, as the last six lines show, 

 are an attack on the Rump Parliament : — 

 Advants George Monck, and Monck St. George 



shall be, 

 England's restorer to its liberty, 

 Scotland's protector, Ireland's president. 

 Reducing all to affree parliament. 

 And if thou dost intend the other thing. 

 Go on, and all shall cry God save y'^ king. 



R. R doth rebellion represent, 



V. By V nought else but viUainy is meant, 



M. M murther signifies all men doe knowe, 



P. P perjuries in fashion grow. 



Then R and V with M and P 

 Conjoined make up our misery. 

 The occasion of their presentation is unknown. 

 General Monck took Belfast in 1646 from the 

 Scotch, who being true Presbyterians of the older 

 school, had turned against the parliament. This 

 was the probable occasion of their being presented 

 to the future restorer of King Charles II. E. L. B. 



Justice to Pope Pius V. — You have done your- 

 self creiiit by exonerating Queen Elizabeth from 

 a charge the easiest to bring, and the most difficult 

 to rebut, implying the proof of a negative ; and 

 therefore frequently brought by the unprincipled. 

 I propose, as a counterpart, to exonerate Pope 

 Pius V. from an imputation, mistakingly, though 

 unjustly, cast upon him by an authority of no less 

 weight than that of Sir Walter Scott. In his 

 edition of Somers's Tracts, vol. i. p. 192., occurs a 

 note on a place in the execution of justice : "Pius V. 

 resolved to make his bastard son, Boncompagni, 

 Marquis of Vincola, King of Ireland," &c. For 

 this assertion no authority is cit^d, nor indeed 

 could be. The very name might have suggested 

 the filiation to his successor, Gregory XIII., which 

 was the fact. In a work, not much known. The 

 Burnt Child dreads the Fire, ^r., by William 

 Denton, M.I)., London, 1675, at p. 25. we read, 

 " Gregory XIII. had a bastard, James Buon 

 Compagna, and to him he gave Ireland, and 

 impowered Stewhcly with men, arms, and money, 



