46 ERRATA RECEPTA. 



main, not hitherto taken up. These I shal], with the utmost brevity, 

 discuss, and then pass on to the topic of " misprints." 



It will be necessary, I suppose, for each successive generation to 

 be reminded, once, that camelo-pard, a word moulded on the analogy 

 of leo-pard, is not caviel-leopard, a rendering which even Shelley ad- 

 mits, where he humorously refers to the petite bride of his tall friend, 



as 



"The milk-white Snowdonian antelope 

 Matched with the cameleopard." 



Letter to — , from Leghorn. 



Also, that anomalous has nothing to do with nomos. 



Morea, the name acquired by the Peloponnesus in the middle ages, 

 has been attributed to morea, Greek for the " mulberry," either from 

 its shape, which somewhat resembles the leaf of the mulberry ; or» 

 from the early introduction of the mulberry into it (by Justinian, in 

 555). Others, again, say that it is a modification of Romea, a word 

 indicative of the fact that this peninsula was a fragment of the em- 

 pire of Nova Roma. With greater probability, however, it is dedu- 

 ced from the very ancient root mor, that is, sea — the Morea being 

 that portion of the region occupied by the Sclavonians, which pos- 

 sessed the greatest extent of maritime coast. — The real meaning of 

 Oxford is, " the Ford over the Ock," a small tributary of the Isis. 

 " Oxford " has been poetically Latinized; or, rather, Grrsecised into 

 'Bosporus;' literally, " the oxen's crossing-place." — A celebrated 

 street, in ancient Eome, was called the Velahrum, " the Awning." 

 Becoming obscure, in the lapse of time, velabrum was interpreted to 

 be a contraction of velum aureum, "golden veil." The mediaeval 

 inscription to be seen at the present day, near the locality, in the 

 Church of " St. George in Velabro," is thus accounted for : — 



" Hie locus ad velum cognomine dieitur auri." 



Septentrionals as we are, we may not deem alien anything that re- 

 lates to the constellation from which we have our name. It will, no 

 doubt, then, be interesting to us to learn that Prof. Max Muller, in 

 his second series of Lectures (p. 365), is of opinion that etymologists 

 laboured under a mistake when they interpreted ' Septentriones ' as 

 " the seven ploughing-oxen." Eather are we to believe that by * tri- 

 ones ' here (for which, in the sense of " ploughing-oxen," we have 

 only the ipse dixit of Varro), is meant to be said ' striones,' an obso- 



