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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



L2»a S. LiL May 2G. '60. 



Your otber correspondent, B. H. C. will per- 

 haps permit me to demur to one or two things in 

 his translation. He says that tveor is not only a 

 deponent but a passive verb. It is very, very 

 rarely passive ; not once in a hundred times; and 

 therefore, unless otherwise indicated by the con- 

 text, must be always understood in an active 

 sense. Indeed, I doubt whether it is ever used 

 passively by classical or correct writers. If B. H. 

 C, or any Latin scholar who reads " N. & Q.," 

 will furnish me with an example from a repu- 

 table author, I will thank him, and acknowledge 

 mv ignorance. I imagine I may have seen tuen- 

 dus, which of course is passive ; but never in the 

 indicative and optative moods. Fumis does not 

 mean death, except by metonomy ; and funere can- 

 not, I think, be translated, as B. H. C. translates 

 it, — in death. 



I beg to thank B. H. C. for the information 

 he afforded us in answer to my Query respecting 

 the " Codex Sinaitieus." It is to be hoped we 

 shall soon be in possession of its various readings. 



John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



P.S. — Since writing the above, I have consulted 

 various lexicographers as to the word tueor, and 

 am confirmed in the conclusion that it has an 

 active sense in ninety-nine cases out of a hun- 

 dred. One instance is adduced of luendus, as 

 used by Cicero. But as to the indicative or sub- 

 junctive moods, among a multitude of instances 

 of the active sense, only one is adduced of the 

 passive — and that is from Varro. 



Sir Walter Raleigh's House (2 nd S. ix. 243.) 

 — If I may be allowed a conjecture, I should say 

 that the house described by Mr. Hart was the 

 residence of Captain George Raleigh (Sir Walter's 

 nephew), who certainly resided in the parish of 

 Lambeth. " Mrs. Judeth Ralegh, the wife of 

 Capt. George Ralegh, sometime Deputy-Governor 

 of y e Hand of Jersey," died on the 14th of De- 

 cember, 1701, and was buried in Lambeth church. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Passage in Menander (2 Dd S. ix. 327. 395.)— 

 The thought is in Plautus, and probably taken 

 from Menander. If the original Greek exists it 

 has not been found by Dindorf. 



" Plerique homines, quos cum nihil refert "pudet; ubi 

 pudendum est, 

 Ibi eos deserit pudor, cum usus est ut pudeat." 



Epidktis, Act II. Sc. 2. 1. 1. 



I take this opportunity of asking whether any- 

 thing is known about the present and future 

 state of Ritschill's edition of Plautus. It began 

 with the refusal to sell a separate play, and, ex- 

 pecting it to be good, I became a subscriber. 

 Only nine parts have reached me : the last is 

 the Mercator, 1854, and like many new German 



books, they are not sewn, but pasted at the back 

 and come to pieces on being cut. Is it best to 

 have them bound as an imperfect work, or to 

 wait in the hope of completion ? H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Manners of the Last Century (2 nd S. ix. 

 344.) — The best sources are the English novelists, 

 Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, &c. ; Swift's Jour- 

 nal, letters, polite conversation, &c. ; Boswell's 

 Johnson, by Croker ; Mad. D'Arblay's Letters 

 and Diary ; but chiefly Horace Walpole's Letters. 

 They dined usually at three o'clock ; took tea or 

 coffee after dinner ; supped about eight or nine, 

 played at loo or whist till midnight or later ; other- 

 wise they went to the theatre or opera. Horace 

 Walpole gives an amusing account of a dinner at 

 Northumberland House, 7th April, 1765 (v. 17.), 

 and of a week's party at Stowe given by the 

 Princess Amelia, 7th, 9th, and 12th July, 1770 

 (v. 277—282.). T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



The Sepulchral Effigies at Kirkby Be- 

 lers and Ashby Folville, co. Leicester (2 niS 

 S. viii. 496.) — Neither Burton nor Nichols in their 

 respective Histories of Leicestershire assign the 

 effigy at Ashby Folville to the Baron of the Ex- 

 chequer who was slain in 1325-6. Burton de- 

 scribes it as " an antient alabaster monument of 

 a knight of the house of Belere," and Nichols 

 calls him " Roger Beler ; " but there were several 

 Rogers in succession. Nichols notices the murder 

 thus : — 



" This Roger le Beler, who is charged with being op- 

 pressive and rapacious, and having got estates from other 

 foundations for his own, was slain, in a valley near 

 Keresby, in 1325, being then very old, and one of the jus- 

 tices itinerant, by Eustace de Foivile and bis brother, 

 whom he had threatened." {History of Leicestershire, ii. 

 225) 



Now the effigy, which is engraved in Plate 

 XL III. of the same volume, seems to represent a 

 very young man, in plate armour, and probably of 

 the reii?n of Edward the Third. The monument 

 at Ashby Foivile is also represented in the History 

 of Leicestershire, vol. iii. Plate V., but the view 

 gives only a profile of the effigy, insufficient to 

 judge accurately of its costume. Both the arms 

 of the effigy are broken off, and therefore the 

 sword and dagger may well be so also. Mr. 

 Nichols mentions the popular story that it " is 

 said to be for Old Foivile who sleiv Beler;" but 

 this shows only that the tragic affray was tra- 

 ditionally handed down. The tomb upon which 

 the effigy is laid, with its quatrefoiled panels, 

 points to a later date. As for the effigy at Kirkby 

 Beler being (as Mr. Kelly suggests) " repre- 

 sented as unarmed," Mr. Nichols expressly says, 

 " his sword and dagger are gone, but the belt re- 

 mains." On the whole, I think Mr. Kelly has 



