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The ambition in 'foreigners' tere sligbtingly glanced at by Fuller, 

 was at a later period satirised by Arbutbnot in the proposed ' Memoirs 

 of Martinns Scriblerus'; and by Sterne in his pretended quotations 

 from Slawkenbergius, Metheglingius, &c. Almost the only names of 

 Latin sound wont to be mentioned in modern English literature are 

 those of the abstractions, Junius and Sylvanus Urban. In the Poemata 

 et Inscriptiones of ' Savagius Landor' the recent names of Brougham, 

 Canning and Southey appear as Brogamus, Caninius and Sutheius. 



A few titular episcopal signatures of Latin form, also, continue to 

 be familiar to the English eye; such as Oxon., Ebor., Winton., abbre- 

 viations of the proper local adjectives in Latin. It is a note of the 

 temper of the times, that a practice has crept in of writing, in the sense 

 here referred to, Exeter instead of Exon., London instead of Londin. 

 (short for Londiniensis). (According to old usage, 'Toronto' in this 

 sense, should be written 'Toronton;' i.e. Torontonensis; episc, being 

 understood; on the analogy of Avenionensis from Avenio, Sulmonensis 

 from Sulmo, &c.: and Colombon. for Colombonensis from Colombo in 

 Ceylon.) It is not wholly alien to our subject to mention here that 

 although Canadensis is a usually received term, in Science and Latin 

 prose, Ferrarius, in his work on the ' Culture of Flowers,' printed at 

 Rome in 1733, repeatedly employs Canadanus. He speaks of " fraga 

 Canadana insolitse magnitudinis," ' Canadian strawberries of an extra- 

 ordinary magnitude,' and of a " vitis Canadana," ' a Canadian vine/ 

 as flourishing in the Gardens of the Barberini palace. (The word 

 seems to be founded on the analogy that has produced Cuban from 

 Cuba, Texan from Texas.) A local possessive formed in Latin from 

 ' Ontario,' viz. Ontarius, may also have some interest. It occurs in 

 the Bodleian volume of Academic verse of the time of George II., 

 before referred to : 



" Jamque novcB gentes et centum uberrima regna 

 Se Britonum titulis ultro regalibus addunt. 

 Ex quo prseruptis scopulis plaga pinea vastum 

 Obsidet Osvegum, sonituque per arva marina 

 Lata fremit, lacuumque Ontaria maxima ssevit." 



In 1551 Sebastian Castalio or Castellio produced a translation of all 

 the books of the Bible in flowing aad pleasant Latin. It is dedicated 

 to our Edward VI. In it, the Jewish and other oriental names have a 

 classic aspect, by being provided with suffixes and declined in accord- 

 ance with the demands of the construction. Sir John Cheke said of 



