2"« S. VI. 131., JuT.Y 3. '58.1 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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in that parish, but whether in any way related to 

 those I have mentioned I do not know. 



Menyanthes. 



Translation of the Odyssey. — In ^ Winter in 

 the Azores, Sfc, by Joseph Bullar, M.D., and 

 Henry Bullar, of Lincoln's Inn, 1841, vol. ii. ch. 

 vii. p. 80., is a specimen, in English heroic coup- 

 lets, of a passage in the 4th book of the Odyssey: 

 it is called " MS. Transl." 



1. Has any other portion of the same version 

 been published ? 



2. Was the translation of the Iliad, published 

 at the late Mr. Pickering's, by the same gentle- 

 man ? 



3. And was not that version of the Iliad in 

 English hexameters, and priced 2s. Gd. per book ? 



I. O. L. 

 Benjamin Martin. — In the Gentleman s Maga- 

 zine for August, 178.5 (vol. Iv.), is an engraved 

 portrait of this voluminous scientific writer, and 

 on the opposite page the following note : — 



" The original picture will be given by its present pos- 

 sessor to the curators of any public repository who may 

 think it worth preserving. — Edit." 



The writer would be glad to receive any in- 

 formation respecting the whereabouts of this ori- 

 ginal. W. G. Atkinson. 



Great Seal Patent Office, 



25. Southampton Buildings. 



Minor ihwtxiti toitTj ^wi^tvi. 



Tradesmen's Tokens. — Is there any published 

 account of the tradesmen's tokens of the early 

 part of this century, and of the last ? H. J. 



[The following works may be consulted : — Representa- 

 tion of all the Provincial Copper Coins and Tokens of Trade 

 on Copper, whic/i were circulated between 1787 and 1801. 

 By Charles Pye. Second edition. 4to. — Arrangement of 

 Provincial Coins, Tokens, and Medalets, issued in Great 

 Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies. By James Conder, 

 8vo. 1799. — A Catalogue of the Provincial Copper Coins, 

 Tokens, Tickets, and Medalets, issued in Great Britain, 

 Ireland, and the Colonies, during the Eighteenth and Nine- 

 teenth Centuries, arranged according to Counties, &c. De- 

 scribed from the originals in the collection of Sir George 

 Chetwynd, Bart., by Thomas Sharp. 4to. 1834. Privately 

 printed.] 



Jewish Millenary Period. — Who is the author 

 that particularly points out the termination of the 

 6000th year of the world, which Mr. Clinton is 

 said to have done in his great work on Chrono- 

 logy? The Rev. E. B. Elliott, in his Horce Apo- 

 calypticce, refers his readers to Mr. Clinton's third 

 volume of his work. I have purchased it accord- 

 ingly for about thirty shillings (the edition of 1851, 

 being his second eclition) and cannot find it. Is 

 there another edition ? Inquiber. 



SThe above reference in Elliott's Hora Apocalyptica is 

 ortunately wrong. Instead of the third it should have 



been the first volume of Clinton's Fasti HeUenici, where, . 

 in Appendix V. ("Scripture Chronology"), pp. 283 — 329. 

 inclusive, our correspondent will find all the information 

 he desires.] 



Eve. — The name of the first woman beinc 

 Chavah in Hebrew, why is she called Eve in our 

 English Bibles ? M. E. 



Philadelphia. 



[Eve was so called by Adam, because she was the 

 mother of all living. In this case the word would pro- 

 perlj' belong to the Hebrew ilT[, haiah. The Hebrew 

 name is nin, havah or chavah, which comes from the root 

 mn, to live, which root is synonymous with HTI ; it 

 therefore signifies life. In the Septuagint, Eve, in Gen. 

 iii. 20., is rendereil 1oi-r\, life, which is the true rendering; 

 but in Gen. iv. 1. it is rendered Euai/, Euan or Evan, and 

 hence Eve. Vide Ogilvie's Imp. Dict.^ 



Quare, the Watchmaker. — At what period did 

 Qiiare, the inventor of the repeater watch, flou- 

 rish ? Quere, temp. Charles I. ? G. 



[Mr. Quare's fame, as inventor of the repeater watch, 

 became known towards the latter end of the reign of 

 James II., about the time when Mr. Barlow endeavoured 

 to obtain his patent. A watch of the invention of each 

 was brought before James II. and his council. The king, 

 after a trial of both specimens, gave the preference to that 

 of Mr. Quare, which was notified in the Gazette. See Dr. 

 Derhara's Artificial Clock Maker, edit. 1700, p. 99.] 



" Amphitryon." — Why is the entertainer of 

 guests called their Amphitryon ? S. Foxall. 



[Since the appearance of Moliere's play o^ Amphitryon, 

 in which Sosie says, " Le veritable Amphitryon est I'Am- 

 phitryon oil I'on dine," the saying has become proverbial, 

 and the proper name Amphitryon has consequently been 

 very generally applied to a host] 



3Rcj3lte^. 



AKTHUB MOORE AND THE MOOEES. 



(pt S. xi. 157., &C.) 



Two or three years since some gossiping articles 

 appeared in " N. & Q." about these Moores. Still 

 there are circumstances which require explana- 

 tion. Wm. Smythe, the grandfather of Pope's 

 James Moore [Smythe] — Mr. Cabruthers (1" 

 S. X. 238.) says "maternal uncle," but that is a 

 mistake — was Paymaster of the Band of Gentle- 

 men Pensioners ; and the following notice appeared 

 in the Historical Register for 1718 : — 



" May 24. William Smythe, Arthur Moor, and Thomas 

 Moor, Esqrs. made joint paymasters to the Board of Pen- 

 sioners." 



The Christian name of Thoma.f I believe to have 

 been a mistake, and that the following announce- 

 ment from the Weekly Journal of June 14-21, 

 1718, is both more full and more correct : — 



" A reversionary grant has passed the seals for James 

 and Arthur Moore, Grandsons of William Smythe of De- 

 vonshire Street, Esq. (younger sons of Arthur Moore of 



