40 ON METONYMS. 



heim, a voluminotis historical writer in 1546, is known as Tritliemrus. 

 Jodocus Baclius Ascensius, the learned printer, is no more than Josse 

 Bade of the village of Asche, in Flanders. We meet with distinguished 

 Hebrew scholars bearing the evident metonjms of Aurogallus and 

 Acoluthus. 



Giles Overmann, translator int» Latin of the romance of the Ules = 

 piegel (whence the French espi^glerie), in 1657, is j^gidius Periander. 

 The metonyms in -ander are very numerous. An obvious one is Nean- 

 der for Neumann. Of this name there were many men of note. The 

 family name of the modern theologian Neander was Mendel. He was 

 born a Jew, and assumed the name Neander on relinquishing the 

 Jewish faith. On a tablet in Westminster Abbey appears the following 

 inscription under the name of a Franciscus Newmannus : — 



Exiita jam carne, animarnm in sec]e 

 Reeeptns, vere Keander factiis e&t. 



One Stephen Neumann figures as Homo Novus. Megander is Gros- 

 man. But Albertus Magnus is Albert de Groot. (His works consist 

 of twenty-one folio volumes.) Theodorus Bibliander is Theodore Buch- 

 mann. Xyknder, editor of Greek and Latin authors in 1532, was, in 

 the vernacular, Holzmann, Woodman. Then we have several Osian- 

 ders, Heiligmanner, a name now degenerated into Osmann ; and a medical 

 writer of Hesse, Johannes Dryander, John Eichmaun. We may con- 

 jecture what the originals may have been of Onosander, Ganander, 

 Nicander, Cratander, Kyriander and Melander. The last was perhaps 

 Schaefer again. Sheep-man. Matthias Flach Francowitz, principal 

 author of the Ecclesiastical History known as the Centuria3 Magdebur- 

 genses, was Flacius and Flaccus Illyricus. Valentinus Paeeus was 

 Hartung Frid. (Hart, valens; Friede, page.) 



Conradus Dasypodius, a mathematician, and translator of ' Theodo- 

 sius and Autolycus on the Sphere,' in 1572, was Conrad Eauchfuss, 

 Hairy-foot. Lycosthenes, compiler of a once well-known volume of 

 Apophthegmata published at Geneva in 1633, is Wolf-hart, that is, as 

 Kilian says, Fortis ut Lupus. Maurolycus also seems to speak for 

 itself. Neoaetos is Neuenaar, aar being eagle, that is, aetos. Comes 

 Neuenarius, Comes Neajtius, and Comes Novas Aquilte, all mean Counfc 

 Neuenaar. Pelargus is Storch, that is. Stork. The family-name of 

 Joachim Fortius Ringelbergius, in 1516, was also Storch. An Abbot 

 Anser bore the family-name of John Huss, Latinised. Luscinius was 

 Nachtigall. Godofredus Rabus is Godfrey Ilaaban, Ravca. Iq Ra- 



