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Faber is Favre and le Fevre, i. e. Wright or Smith. Aurifaber is 

 Orfevre, ouvrier en or. Tannaquil Faber is Tannaguy le Fevre, father 

 of the learned Madame Dacier. Belcarius (Rer. Gall. Hist., 4-5.) 

 speaks of Jacobus vulgo Cor appellatus : Cordatum, he adds, quod 

 Latinis aliud sonat [viz. Wise], quidam vocare malunt. This is the 

 famous, so-called French Argonaut, Jacques Coeur, of the year 1480. 

 (See an admirable portrait of him at the beginning of his Life, by 

 Louisa Stuart Costello.) 



Johannes Vulteius, an epigrammatist of Rheims in 1537, is Jean 

 Faciot, vultus and facies being akin. Omphalius is du Bellay, per- 

 haps from a fancied connection with Umbilicus, through the Italian 

 Ombelico, Bellico. Philibertus Hegemon, author of a book of Fables 

 in 1583, is Philibert Guyde. Hadrianus Junius for Hadrian le Jeune 

 seems to be a base metonym ', as also are Pinus for du Pin and des 

 Pins, and Feuardentius for Feuardent. A French copyist in 1344, is 

 named Thomas Plenus Amoris : in English Fullalove occurs. 



Latinised local surnames are common : Nicolaus Vernuleus, author 

 in 1656 of Johanna Darcia, vulgo Puella Aurelianensis, is Nicholas de 

 Vernulz. Jacobus de Vitriaco is Jacques de Vitry. (We meet also 

 with a Ph. R. Vitriacus.) Demontiosius is de Montjoisieu. Bellojo- 

 canus is de Beaujeu. Alanis de Insulis is Alaine de Tlsle. De Yeteri 

 Ponte is Vipont. De Capite Fontium is CheflFontaines. Porretanus 

 is de la Porree. Serranus is de Serres. Licius is de la Lice. 

 Baius, de Bay; Plovius, de Blonay. No remarks are necessary on 

 Budseus for Bude, Finaeus for Fine, Gallasus for Galle, Dur^us 

 for Dure or Dury, Danseus for Danes, Cartesius for Des Cartes: 

 on Petavius for Petau, Salmasius for Saumaise, Santolius for San- 

 teuil : or on Muretus for Muret, Huetius for Huet, &c. Helvetius 

 was probably, vernacularly, le Suisse, the Swiss. Theodorus Beza is 

 Theodore de B^ze, like our Beda for Bede. He was also fancifully 

 transformed into Adeodatus Seba. De Thou, commonly known as 

 Thuanus, President of the Parliament of Paris, in his Universal His- 

 tory of the period 1546-1607, written in Latin, ingeniously translates 

 the modern names, carrying the process to an extreme. With him, 

 Chartier or Cartier is Quadrigarius, Charioteer; Entragues, Interam. 

 nas; Des Marets, Paludanus, &c. 



In the Spanish and Portuguese languages, metonyms, when they 

 occur, will be, in many instances, as in Italian, a return to a real or 

 supposed ancient form. The Spanish name Sanchez thus becomes 

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