53 ON METONYMS. 



this translation : (vide p. xxxii. Introduction to Castalio) — " MeBercle^ 

 majorem percipio fructum in legendo Castellionem quam in volvendis 

 omnium scriptorum commentariis : oratio facilis est, explicata, dilucida, 

 suavis, concinna et diserta : verba pura et Latina et quae propius natu- 

 ram rationemque Grsecse Hebraicseque locutionis attingunt." For 

 comparison, here is a passage from Castalio: " Pudet confractum 

 Moabitam, ejulate quiritantes, nunciate ad Arnonem periisse Moabi- 

 tam, sumptumque supplicium esse de terra campestri, de Helone, de 

 Jasa, .... denique de omnibus Moabiticse terrse oppidis tam remotis 

 tam vicinis." The corresponding passage in the Vulgate version runs 

 as follows: " Confusus est Moab, quoniam victus est : ululate et cla* 

 mate, annunciate in Arnon quoniam vastata est Moab, et judicium 

 venitad terram campestrem; super Helon, et super Jasa, , . . . et super 

 omnes civitates terrse Moab, quae longe et prope sunt." 



In 1661, Duport, regius professor of Greek in the University of 

 Cambridge, turned the Psalms of David into Homeric Greek, exhibit- 

 ing much ingenuity in metonymising the Hebrew names. The follow- 

 ing might be a couplet from the Iliad : 



2/jwra KpaTip6<ppov 'Anoppaiuv /BacriXija, 



Kai BaaavoLO neSopra, TrsXupiov o^pi/xov 'Qyov. 



The reader of Aristophanes will remember how readily the Greek 

 language lends itself to the manufacture of humorous compound terms 

 Modern Greek is equally adapted to the same purpose. A translation 

 of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, published at Athens in 1854, renders 

 the names given to the characters in that book, very well. Turnabout 

 is Eumetabolos: Smoothman, Glucologos: Mr. Anything, Alloprosallos : 

 Mr. Vain-confidence, Mettaiotharrhes : Giant Slaygood, Agathoctonos : 

 Dare-not-lie, Phugopseudes : Standfast, Eustathes: Madam Bubble, 

 Pampholux : Father Honest, Gero-Timios. This last epithet reminds 

 one of the modern Greek term «caloyer,' which possibly may have per- 

 plexed readers of Childe Harold, It is the modern Greek Kalo-ger, 

 pronounced -yer, Kalos geron, 'the good old man,' <the good father': 

 the word occurs in connection with a description of the monastery of 

 Zitza in Albania : 



" The convent's white walls glisten fair on high : 

 Here dwells the calo-yer, nor rude is he, 



Ch. Har. ii. 49, 



