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cal terms which he selected from the Onomasticon 
of Julius Pollux, which he gave at the end of his 
Dictionarium Medicum (Paris), 1564, p. 583. in- 
cluded épu@pdredas, but subsequently the learned 
Jungerman, on the authority of the Palatine MS., 
rejected that word, and in its place gave épvot- 
meaas, “ quod MS. clare hic habet,” says he; and 
this emendation was approved and adopted by 
Lederlin and Hemsterhuis, the successive editors 
of the valuable edition of Pollux published at 
Amsterdam in 1706. 
The true etymology of erysipelas is probably 
that given in the Etymologicum Magnum (quoted 
by Scapula, in wéAas), rapa ro EPYESOAI 7d aiua ent 
7) TIEAAS. x. 7.A. With this agrees what the 
learned author of the Lexicon Medicum Etymolo- 
gicum, Paris, 1693, gives under Erysipelas, which 
he deduces rightly from épéw, traho, and 7éAas, 
prope: “quod sit tumor a bile et sanguine fer- 
vidiori se in vicinas partes diffundens.” ‘The er- 
ratic character of this form of inflammation is 
continually obvious. ARTERUS. 
Dublin. 
Etymology of “ Theodolite,” §c. (2°° S. i. 73.) — 
1. Erysipelas.—Greek, épustreras ; from épubpds, 
red, and zeAda, skin, The change from épv@p— into 
épvo— is also observable in the word épuciéy, the 
red blight, robigo, or mildew ; and in the Italian 
rosso, from the same root. 
2. Theodolite. — Greek, Séa, a prospect, and 
dnAdw, to make visible. I remember the etymo- 
logy of this word was set me as a poser on the 
Great Western, at the time of the railway mania 
in 1846, when the instrument was brought more 
prominently before the public than at present. 
{t is an ill-compounded word, and its proper form 
would appear to be theadelote ; all of whom I after- 
. wards made the inquiry, if they did not stick in 
the former half of the word, were sure to be laid 
fast in the d6dos of the latter. At length I hit ac- 
cidentally on the above, which I think must be the 
true derivation. 
3. Caucus. — This Yankeeism has already been 
discussed in “N. & Q.” (1* 8S. xi. 28.) See also 
Trench On the Study of Words, p. 138. 
KE. §. Tartor. 
Heaven in the sense of Canopy (2" S. i. 133.)— 
The question of B.S. Kennepy is a curious one, 
and I myself have sought in vain for such another 
instance as that which he gives. Some time since 
I “made a note” upon the subject, in which I 
collected a number of analogical expressions. 
Heaven. ‘There can be no doubt that our word 
ceiling is from the Latin calwm, through the 
French ciel. The French has ‘ciel de lit,” and 
“ciel d’autel,” in both of which cases it may be 
well rendered canopy. The Italian has sopraccielo 
for the “ciel de lit” of the French, and with these 
agrees the “cielo de la cama” of the Spanish. 
The last-named language has also “cielo del 
coche” for the top of a coach, and, what is still 
more singular, “cielo de la bocca” for the roof 
of the mouth, Your correspondent refers to the 
like use of the German himmel, and he might 
have added ‘the Dutch and the Danish. In the 
same way, in Greek we have ovpayds and ovpavickos, 
both of which are used of the roof of the mouth, 
for the covering of a tent, ceiling, &c. Still, 
again, we have an analogous idiom in Latin, ce- 
lum for ceiling, and calum capitis for the top of 
the skull. If we go further abroad we shall find, 
Rabb., M9p""nv, * the roof of a cottage,” literally 
the heaven of a cottage. And, lastly, in the Syriac 
we have “heaven of the palate,” for “roof of the 
mouth,” and “ heaven of a house,” for its ‘‘ roof.” 
So far I can go, others may go further ; but this 
will suffice to show the extent to which a remark- 
able idiom may travel. If Cowley’s use of the 
word “ heaven” was an innovation, it was much 
like that of children, who are prone to call the 
expanse above us “the ceiling.” The poet has 
not violated the etymology of the word=that 
which is above us. B. H.C. 
Ancient Origin of Phrases now in vulgar Use 
(2° §, 1.44.) — To this list may be added, “to 
keep a corner of the stomach.” In the Curculio of 
Plautus, Act III. Sc. 1., the Parasite says, — 
“Edepol, ne ego heic me intus explevi probe, 
Et quidem reliqui in ventre celle uni loeum, 
Ubi reliquiarum reliquias reconderem.” 
I find the phrase in Swift’s Polite Conversation, 
coupled with another, of which I ask an explan- 
ation : 
“Lady Smart. Poh! Sir John; you have seen nine 
houses since you eat last: come, you haye kept a corner 
of your stomach for a bit of venison-pasty.” 
As if the saying were peculiarly appropriate to a 
venison-pasty, we find it again so applied in Gold- 
smith’s Haunch of Venison: 
“. , . . . . He'll come round in a trice; 
He’s keeping a corner for something that’s nice. 
There’s a pasty.” 
FE. 
Banus called on Holidays (2° §. i. 78.) — As- 
suming your remarks at p. 34., and those cited at 
p. 142. from the Bishop of Exeter’s speech, to 
have established the period after the Nicene 
Creed as that at which banns of marriage may 
lawfully be published, and at which the church 
intended them so to be, the Query of K.M. at 
p- 78. remains to be answered, “Is the novelist 
accurate in representing them to be published on 
a holiday?” ‘The words of the authentic Rubric 
are “published in the church three several 
Sundays or holy-days, immediately before the sen- 
tences for the offertory.” It would thence ap- 
pear, apart from any usage or custom, to be quite 
