1807.] 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, 
N_ re-dconsidering Mr. Pickbourn’s 
former letter in vol. xxi, p. 104, I 
find that I have understood that part 
of it as a translation of the passage 
quoted from Bishop Hare, which Mr. P, 
intended only as‘an explanation of ac- 
cent. This misunderstanding, I assure 
Mr. P. was unintentional, and occasion- 
ed by inadvertency, though the manner 
im which the preceding sentence was 
worded, might have deceived others as 
well as me. This, however, makes no 
material aiteration with respect to the 
matter on which we differ m senti- 
ment. With Mr, P. I think that acu- 
tus is undoubtedly a participle from the 
verb acuo. But in the place of the 
word syllaba, | would insert nota. Acuta 
rote means a sharpened or acuted note: 
and theretore syllaba accut@ note provima 
must signify the syllable which is accent- 
ed. ‘That this is not a false nor forced 
interpretation of the passage in question, 
is evident from_ the context, and in par- 
ticular, from what he afterwards subjoins; 
“ Que acuuntur in tertia ab extrema, in- 
terdum acutum corripiunt, si positione 
sola longa sunt, ut optine, sérvitus, perve- 
lim, Pamphilus, et pauca alia, quo Cretici 
mutantur in Anapaestos. Idem factum 
est in néwtiquam, licet inceprat a diph~ 
thongo.” De Metr. Comic. p. 62. 0° 
I could wish to be informed by some 
of your learned correspondents why 
Heyne, in his edition of Virgil, has made 
use of the word Hebrum, instead of 
Eurum, in the passage in which the poet 
Is describing Venus, the mother of 
fEneas : 
qualis equos Threissa fatigat 
Harpalyce, volucremque fuga pravertitur 
Hebrum. ; 
Volucrem Hebrum, (says. Weyne), com- 
muni fluciorum epitheio declardvit, etse 
Hebri cursum narrané esse lerem ac placi- 
dum. Idonotthink that the epithet volu- 
eris isapplicable tothe Hebrus, if, as said, 
the course of the river be /ents et placidus. 
Besides, the common editions of Virgil 
have adopted the amendment of Huctius, 
and read Furum, to.which volucrem is 
much more applicable, Inseveral places 
of his works, Virgil has made use of Lurus 
to express rapidity. 8a 
———Fugit ilicet ocior Euto, xn. viii. 223, 
——Fugit ocior Euro. un, xii. 733, 
tn these and other passages, Heyne 
has followed the common reading; and. 
fy 
On the Custom of Lifting on Easter Monday. 
435 
Jam at a loss to conceive -why he should 
ever have adopted Hebrum instead of 
Eurum, untess the course of the river was 
intended to convey the idea of grace and 
beauty. I am, &c. 
Ravenstondale, 
iifay 2, 1807. 
ne —— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
|S verte occasion to go from Livere' 
pool to Chester, on Easter Mon- 
day, [ crossed at one of the ferries, and 
performed the journey on foot. As I 
passed along, I perceived the female 
villagers eye me with no little curi- 
osity, but conceiving it to be nothing 
more than usual at the sight of a stran- 
ger, or perhaps somewhat flattered by 
female attention, no unpleasant appre- 
hension arose; till at length a strong 
party of them, consisting of seven or 
eight, rushed from a little village, and 
surrounded me, one of them seizing me 
by the breast. Alarmed at this, so much 
hke a hue and cry after a thief, [ desired 
to know what was my offence ; and in re- 
turn was informed by the Amazon, who 
had me still in her grasp, that it was aster 
Monday, or Lifting-day. As I had receiv- 
ed some little hint of this custom when 
in Liverpool, and rightly supposed the 
principal object of all such (at least in mo- 
dern days,) to be the extortion of money, 
I thought it prudent so to liberate myself, 
rather than to satisfy my curiosity by a 
practical experience of the operation, 
The next village [ had nearly shared.a si- 
milar fate; but fortunately, [ was too far 
J. Rozinson. 
“advanced ere they could collect in suth- 
cient numbers to commence the attach» 
As it was past 12 0’clock when I arrived 
at Chester, I witnessed nothing more on 
that day, it being confined to the forenoon 
entirely: but én the morrow my ears 
were early assailed by the rude clamours 
of those who were attacking the passen- 
gers on every side. Nor werethe houses, 
at least the inns, a sufficient protection ; 
as I had by no means the enviable pleasure 
to hear, during my breakfast, a far from 
delicate -party enquire if the gentleman 
was risen, which was answered by my 
hostess in the negative; thus by a little 
falsehood securing my safety, ,- The prac- 
tice is, that if the perfons so seized, male 
or female (as they have each a day), re- 
fuse to. pay the necessary fine, they. are 
taken by the arms, legs, clothes, or any: 
part, and. tossed up and down several 
times, the last, not untrequently, suitered 
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