48 ON METONYMS. 



Sainte Martlie/ Two brothers of this name, Scsevola and Louis, began 



the Gallia Christiana, a Church-history of France, publishing four 



volumes in folio under that title, ia 1656, a work that has since 



swollen, without being completed, to fourteen volumes in folio. With 



this name we may compare the probably more familiar ' Nostradamus' — 



which is a similar base rendering of ' de Notre Dame ' — the name, in 



the vernacular, of the great 'prophet' of 1555, "medeciu du Roi 



Charles IX., et Fun des plus excellents astronomes qui furent jamais,'' 



so styled on the title page of the Lyons edition of his predictions in 



1611. Lodelle's epigram on this personage is well known : — 



Falsa damus cum nostra damns, nam fallere nostrum est, 

 Et cum nostra damns, nou nisi falsa damus. 



Hieronymus Natalis, author of Meditationes, &c , in 1594, is Jerome 

 Noel : that is: Noel having been, through the Provengal Nadal, Nael, 

 originally Natalis, Noel is Latinised back into that form. Comitum 

 Natalis, author of a work on Hunting, in 1681, is Noel des Comtes. 

 Petrus de Natalibus, on the other hand, in 1493, is Pierre des 

 Natalies. 



In 1590 we meet with Guidonis Conchylii Poemata. These are the 

 Poems of Guy Coquille, jurisconsult and poet. Cornelius h Lapide, 

 author of ten folio volumes of Scripture-criticism in 1657, is Corneille 

 de la Pierre. The' great grammarian and dialectician, Ramus, slain in 

 the massacre of St. Bartholomew, was in plain vernacular, Pierre de la 

 Ramee. But Camus, Caylus, Simus, Datus, Regius, Dumus, and some 

 others of a like appearance, do not belong to our metonyms. 



Johannes Viator, a commentator on the book of Job, is Jean Pele- 

 grin. Petrus Comestor, whose Historia Scholastica super Novum 

 Testamentum was printed in 1473, was Pierre le Mangeur. Antonius 

 Sylviolus is Antoine Forestier ; and Sylvius is du Bois, Macarius is 

 I'Heureux. Dionysius Esiguus is Denis le Petit. Johannes Parvus 

 is Jean Petit. Mercator is Mercier. Petrus Sarcinator is Pierre le 

 Couturier. 



Auratus is Dorat. Calceatus is Chausse. Clericus is le Clerc 

 Gurtius is le Court. Clusius is de I'Ecluse. Crucius is Le Croix. 

 Creuxius is Le Creux. (This Le Creux is the author of a Historia 

 Canadensis, sen Novge Francije liber x, ad annum Christi mdlvi? 

 printed at Paris in 1664.) Calvinus is Chauvin, Bald. Cognatus is 

 Cousin. Paschasius is Pasquier. Regnius is le Roi. Renatus i'^ 

 Rene. Benenatus is Bienne, bookseller and printer in Paris in 1570. 



