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peared in your pages respecting efBgies bearing 

 the collar of SS, and especially in compliance with 

 the desire expressed by Mr. E. Foss, that inform- 

 ation should be sent to you of any efligy that 

 might be met witli having this distinction, I beg 

 to state that in the church of St. Mary, Euabon, 

 Denbiglishire, there is a finely executed high tomb 

 of alabaster, bearing the efKgies of " John ap Ellis 

 Eyton" and of his lady "Elizabeth Chalfrey Ellis 

 Eyton ;" the former deceased a.u. 1524, and the 

 latter a.p. 1527. The knight wears the collar of 

 SS, to which is suspended a rose-shaped ornament, 

 and is stated to have been at the battle of Bos- 

 worth, and, for his services on that day, to have 

 been granted by Henry VII. what lands he chose. 

 The knight's gauntlets lie together on his right 

 side, and his feet rest against a lion. G. J, R. G. 

 Pen-y-lau, Riiabon. 



Locusts of the New Testament (Vol. iv., pp. 

 255. 351.). — In reference to the word a;coly, which 

 has given rise to so much discussion in your very 

 valuable periodical, may I be permitted to observe 

 that the patois spoken in this town (Nice=Nizza 

 = Xica;a, founded by the Fhocseans, expelled their 

 Asian abode by Harpagus; Strabo, 1.4. p. 184.; 

 Herod, i. 163.) bears many traces of its Greek 

 origiii. The tree which answers to the " locust " 

 is called by the peasantry aci'ouh ; and in order 

 that you, or any of your correspondents, may ob- 

 serve its similarity in every point to the Eastern 

 tree, I liave transmitted a packet of its fruit to 

 your office. I do not know whether Grimm's law 

 would authorise the antitiiesis of a d for a p sound, 

 but every student of Romaic will allow the ten- 

 dency that i and o sounds have for intercluinging. 

 This would give acreed, aKplS, the root of dK,;ls. 



NlC^ENSIS. 



Theodolite (Vol. iv., p. 383.). — If your corre- 

 spondent J. S. Wood will refer to Todd's Johnsons 

 Dictionary, he will find the derivation of the word 

 til us — 



" Theodolite ( Fr. from Sew, Gr., contracted of&eao), 

 or ^eaofiai, to observe ; and SaAi^br, long. St"c Jlorin, 

 Fr. and Gr. Etym. Diet. ), a mathematical instrument 

 for taking heights and distances." 



He.nry Wilkinson. 



Brompton, Nov. 15. 1851. 



" A Po.tie of other ]\Iens Flowers^'' (Vol. iv., 

 p. 211.). — Your correspcmdent Mn. C. Forbes 

 appears anxious to know where Montaigne spe.iks 

 of "a posie of other men's flowers." I believe that 

 there is an error in confining Montaigne's idea 

 thus exclusively to poetry, for I presume tlie ])as- 

 sage simght for is what I shall now quote; but if 

 80, it applies generally to any borrowed thought 

 from an autlior embellished by auotiuT : 



" La verite et la raison sont communes a un chasciin, 

 ct ne sont plus a celui qui les adictes premieroniiiit, 

 qu'a qui les diet aprcz : ce n'est non plus seloii Platen 



que selon moy, puisque luy et moy I'entendons et 

 veoyons de mesnie. Les abeilles pillotent de^a dela les 

 Jieurs ; 7nais etles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur ; 

 ce n'est plus tliym, nij muriolaine ; ainsi les pieces em- 

 pruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra 

 pour en fiilre un ouvrage tout slen, a scavoir son juge- 

 ment," &c. — Essai/s, livre i. chap. 25. 



I hope that this will satisfactorily answer your 

 correspondent's inquiry. J. R. 



Voltaire (Vol. iii., p.433.). — On the subject of 

 anagrams, lately adverted to by your correspon- 

 dents, I not long since referred to that wliich 

 showed that the name of Voltaire, as adduced by 

 me in the Gentleman^ Magazine a few years back, 

 instead of being, as asserted by Lord Brougham 

 and others, that of an estate, was in fact the 

 anagram of his family patronymic, with the ad- 

 jtmct of 1. j., or junior (le jeune), to distinguish 

 him from his elder brother. We see similarly the 

 President of the French National Assemblj' uni- 

 formly called " Dupin I'aine ; and his brother 

 Charles, until created a Baron, always " Dupin 

 le jeune." Observing, therefore, that Voltaire 

 was in reality Arouet le jeune, or, as he signed it, 

 Arouet 1. j., and that the two letters it and j 

 were, until distinguished by the Elzevir, indis- 

 criminately written v and i, the anagram will 

 thus be clearly proved : every letter, though trans- 

 posed, being ec^ually in both : — 



AROVETLJ 



12 3 4 5 6 7 8 



VOLTAIRE 



43761825 



Although, as above mentioned, this unquestion- 

 able fact has already appeared in another publica- 

 tion, and, indeed, likewise in the Dublin Review 

 for June 1845 (both from me), yet the old mis- 

 statement of this celebrated personage's bio- 

 graphers still continued to be asserted, as it has 

 been in your own pages. This is my motive for 

 now addressing you on the matter Voltaire, I 

 may add, was a little partial to his paternal name. 

 To the Abbe iloussiuot, his Parisian agent, he 

 thus wrote on the 17th of May, 1741 : 



" Je vous al envoye ma signature, dans laquellej'ai 

 oublie le nom d' Arouet, que j'oublie assez volontiers." 

 And, on another occasion : 



" Je vous renvole d'autres parchemins, o\x so trouve 

 ce nora, malgrc !c peu de cas que j'en fais.' 



Mixing with the higher classes of society, he 

 wislied, like them, to be known by a territorial 

 possession, and framed the name now resounding 

 through the world, prefixing to it the nobiliary 

 ])article, De. His elder brother was named Ar- 

 mond, wiiosc death jjreccded tliat of the younger 

 by thirty-seven years, 1741 — 1778; both were 

 unmarried. Numerous, and curious too, are the 

 anagrams which my memory could furnish me. 



J. R. 



