2nd §,No8, Fen. 23. °56.] 
and a very pretty boy with wings followed him, which I 
took to be his good genius.’ 
“ Pom. But had he no evil genius with him? 
“ Br. Yes; for there followed him, a great, way off, 
some birds that were all over black, except, when they 
spread their wings, they seemed to have feathers . ... 
about the size of vultures . - one would have taken 
them for harpies. While I was intent upon these things, 
St. Jerome saluted Reuclin in these words: «I am ordered 
to conduct thee to the mansions of the blessed souls, 
which the divine bounty has appointed thee, as a reward 
for thy most pious labours,’ - . . Giving Reuclin 
the right hand, conducts him into the meadow, and up a 
hill that was in the middle of it. By this the 
holy souls were carried into Heaven, a quire of angels 
all the while accompanying them, with so charming a 
melody, that he was never able to think of the delight of 
it without weeping. When he waked out of his 
dream, he would not believe he was in his cell, but called 
for his bridge and his meadow.” 
I have extracted the above from pp. 132—135., 
and I think it will be seen that Addison took not 
only the leading idea, but many particular expres- 
sions from Erasmus. It would be still more evi- 
dent, on the perusal of the entire passage in the 
Colloguies. G. E. 
FAGOT, IN THE SENSE OF FOOD. 
T have often seen selling, in the West of Eng- 
land, baked balls of offal wrapped up in caul fat. 
I believe they consist of small portions of liver 
and other similar material. These balls, of some- 
what savoury odour, are called Jagots; and it was 
only after some cogitation, that I have found out 
what I deem the Roman etymon of that term. If 
Iam right, the whole thing is singularly curious ; 
and I will state it for your etymologists. 
In the lower Roman Empire there was a dish 
called jicatum, consisting of Jigs, mixed up with 
liver. Though liver was one of the ingredients, 
this dish took its name from the fig, ficus, and, as 
I said, was styled ficatum. In course of time the 
Italians even lost the Latin term Jecus, liver ; and 
Italy to this day uses the word JSegato for that part 
of an animal. 
You will, then, readily see that in the low 
Latin term ficatum, a dish of figs and liver came 
to be used for liver alone. I cannot, however, 
doubt but it was also applied to the mixed dish; 
that is, for any dish into which liver entered 
as an ingredient. The formation, therefore, of 
our term fagot was thus: ficus, ficutum ; Segato, 
Sagot. 
a: am confirmed in this theory, and not, I fancy, 
without reason, by a like process that has trans- 
ee in the Greek language. The modern 
eeks, like the modern Romans, have entirely 
dropped their ancestral term for liver, éras; and, 
Stranger still, have replaced it by a word formed 
by cixoy, the classic term for Jig! Thus, the word 
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147 
now invariably used for liver is cuxér1, or TuKOTLOv, 
always pronounced secoli, or secotion.* 
Now, as Romans and Greeks in later ages 
formed one empire, and so remained till the reign 
of Honorius and Arcadius, what is more probable 
than the notion that Greece too had the favourite 
dish ficatum, and that she called it onkétiy, a word 
tantamount to the low Latin term itself ? 
Thence, as ficatum became fegato in Italian, and 
ousted the old word jecus, liver, so odxoy became 
guxoriov, and banished the classical term tras, a 
word never heard now-a-days in “the land of the 
bard, the warrior, and the sage.” 
SHerman Witson. 
Bath. 
© 
Minor Hates, ° 
Notes on Longfellow.— In Longfellow’s late 
work, The Song of Hiawatha, I met with a sin- 
gular use of the word roebuck. In Part IIL. it is 
used as synonymous with “red-deer ;” in Part xe 
as synonymous with “ fallow-deer.” This leads 
me to fancy that the word, like many others; may 
have come to another signification in America to 
what it has in England; and may be generally 
used for any sort of deer, and not exclusively for 
the male of Cervus capreolus. 
The way of spelling “ moccasons” is also new to 
me, having met with moccasins in all former 
writers. 
Will you also let me remark on the incorrect- 
ness of one of the engravings of Gilbert in the 
edition of this work by Routledge. He has repre- 
sented Pau-Put-keewis, the handsome Yenadizze 
of Part XVI. wearing horns as part of his head- 
dress. Now this part of an Indian head-dress is 
only allowed to be worn by a brave of extraordi- 
nary renown; in many tribes, the hereditary 
chief being without it, and only allowed to him 
or them who, from their distinguished valour, are 
the acknowledged chiefs of the war party. Now 
it is not probable, that he whom the warriors 
called — 
satid 6 6 coward, Shaugodaya, 
Idler, gambler, Yenadizze.”—Part XI. 
would have been suffered to wear this distin- 
guished mark. Had the engraver followed the 
poet’s description, the engraving would have been 
correct. Loccan. 
The Good Use of Bell-ropes. — Your excellent 
correspondent, and my good friend, Rev. H. T. 
Exxacomsr, frequently adorns your pages with 
anecdotes of bells ; perhaps the following anecdote 
of bell-ropes may amuse the lovers of bell-ringing. 
It appears to have been written many years since, 
ee ae ne Se a er PTE 
* Modern Greeks invariably sound v as », that is as ce 
in fleet. 
