42 ON METONYMS. 



Printers as well as autliors allowed their names to appear in Latin 

 and Greek forms. Several of the metonyms already noticed apper- 

 tained to printers. Oporinus is Herbst, that is, Harvest. Eucharius 

 Cervicornus, at Cologne in 1520, is Eucharius Hirschhorn, Staghorn. 

 (We meet with Cornueervinus also for Von Hirschhorn.) Petrus 

 Cfesaris, a Fleming, was Pieter Keysere. Petrus Perna was Peter 

 Ham, Schinte. Graphseus was probably Schreiber, and Cephalaeus 

 Hauptmann ; Nicolaus Lupus, Wolf, was a printer at Lyons in 1499. 

 We have not at hand the famous Epistolte Obseurorum Virorura. 

 Some amusing imitations of metonymised names would doubtless be 

 found therein. 



It is unnecessary to remark upon such direct Latinisations as Zump- 

 tius, Zuinglius, Vossius, Arminius (Hermansen); or on such obvious 

 ones as Vredius for de Vree, Yenius for Van Veen, Arimseus for Van 

 Arum, Musius for Muys, or Choerius fur Vander Keere, which in 

 French is du Tour, that is, like Keere in Low-German, Turn or Cir- 

 cuit. Dodonseus, a physician and botanist in 1616, is Dodoens. 

 Christian Gottlob Sachs was first Sachsius; then Saxius. Zypreus is 

 Vauden Zype. 



Jades is the name of a Danish writer on Printing. (We have the 

 name Judge in English.) A Danish mathematician was named Nico- 

 laus Raymarus Ursus. The Icelandic author of the Orkneyinga Saga, 

 sive Historia Orcadensium, printed at Copenhagen in 1780, Jonas 

 Jonseus, is, in effect, Jonas ap Jones. Reiuier Gemma, surnamed the 

 Frisian, must have been Jeweel, Jewel, in his own vernacular Low- 

 German. 



A surgeon of Ghent is renowned in 1722 under the name of Palin- 

 genius. This appears to have been a fanciful expansion of his real 

 name, which was Palfin. In like manner, from a partial similarity of 

 sound, the name of the Cretan grammarian Moscopulus was usurped by 

 Peter von Musschenbrock, literally. Swallow-brake. Noviomagus is 

 simply a local name for Nimeguen, anciently Nieuwmegen. His real 

 name was Geldenhaur ; as that of Pomeranus was Bugenhagen. My- 

 conius we once supposed to be a Grecising of some word signifying 

 Baldhead; but Pipericornius, literally Pfeffercorn, Peppercorn, in his 

 Chronicon Thuringiacum, says, Fuit Myconius alio nomine Mecum 

 dictus; but what Mecum may be a corruption of, is not evident. 

 TabernEemontanus, a naturalist, whose Eicones Plantarum appeared 

 at Frankfort in 1588, was so named from his having been born at 



