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broken up in the Thames. She had long been out of service, but will be remembered as having been the flagship at the battle of Navarino. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. Westminster.

BREAM'S BUILDINGS : THE NAME. I have wondered whether there has ever been anything in ' N. & Q.' on the origin of the name Bream's Buildings. I fancy it may have been after Arnold Breams, who built the Dover Custom-House in the reign of Charles I. and who had offices in London. J. BAVINGTON JONES.

Dover.

[Numerous references to articles on Bream's Buildings appear in the General Indexes to the Eighth and Ninth Series.!

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, (a order that answers may be sent to them direct.

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY QUOTATIONS.

I SHALL feel obliged for any reference to or explanation of the following passages in a writer of the close of the seventeenth century :

1. Though we seem nearer the Heavens, yet our Bodies here are more Earthy, and the Mind wants that active Fire that always mounts, as it' it were extinguished by its Antiparistasis. What is Anti- paristasis ?

2. Non minor est virtus quam quserere parta tueri.

3. Fluctum enim totius Barbarise ferre urbs una non poterat.

4. Of the Pyrrhic dance : Hsec Celebratio non oranino dissimilis ei generi exerceri solita h Juve- iiibus armatis Lacedemoniae cum Patris Achillis rogum celebraret.

5. Quod Reges Indorum protinus aureis Orbibus includunt, et vina liquantia potant, Actum nee morbos tuti sentire feruntur, Nee quae inter mensas occulta hausere venena.

6. Nil gravius nil improbius quam fcemina vivit. Of. Homer, < Odyssey,' xi. 427.

7. Et certamen habent laethi, quae viva sequatur

Conjugium : pudor est non licuisse mori. Ardent victrices et flammae pectora praebent, Imponuntque suis ora perusta viris.

8. Romse, Lutetise ac Venetiae Nemo quicquid miratur.

9. Snakes are generated out of Human'Brains putrefying. Where does Pliny state this ?

10. Like the Scythian Ateas, who. hearing one sweetly modulating on an Ismean Pipe, swore that lie had rather hear the neighing of an Horse, or the Clangor of Horns or Trumpets.

11. Esse prsestantem aliquam aeternamque Na- turam, et earn suspiciendam adorandamque, homi- num genus cardoque rerum Caelestium cogit con- fiteri. Where does Cicero say this?

12. JSstivo nunquam conspectus Sydere Glaucus.

13. Nutrit ubi implumes peregrina Ciconia foetus,

Ad nidos abies consita primo [sic] fuit.

14. Sic Angustiis a nob\s devictis ad Augusta ferimur.

15. Hie penes Persas Magus est qui sidera novit, Qui scit herbarum vires cultumque deorum, Persepoli facit ista Magos sapientia triplex.

16. Atque illi primum sperare salutem Sic Ausi, afflictis melius confidere rebus.

17. Who was Petrus Angelina, and where, in his " 5 lib. Cyneget.," does he write thus :

Quos India pascit Onagros, Jam primum niveo corpus candore teguntur, Infecti Assyrio circum caput omne colore Cseruleis oculis, unoque in fronte superbi Cornu ?

18. Said to be from the same :

At sonitu ingenti putrem quatit ungula campum Cornua, venantem quoties fugiere : suisque Temporibus stant longae Aures, turn Corpora Cervo Exsuperant ; nee Lana nitet non albo [sic] colore, Mixta Nigro ; ceu cum Nubes densantur opacae Et totum eripiunt oculis ccelumque diemque. Nigraque per medios decurrit toenia lumbos Linda, quam clunes tractim comitantur ad imos, Utraque distinguens niveo sua tergora ductu.

19. Who wrote these " facetious verses " ? Ergo ubi lapsa jacent sua quisque sub arbore pomas Accedunt Lo3ti, seque in sua terga volutant, Donee fixa rubis hserentia mala supremis Exportent : implentque penum liventibus uvis ; Quorum acinis quoties sentes onerantur acutae Perjucunda sui prcebent spectacula nobis, Quippe humeros tecti sic ingrediuntur, ut ipsa

Ire putes totos avulsos vite racemos. Ah ! tibi ne cupidos sensus tarn tangat habendi, Tantus amor furem ut tentes arcere jocosum, Atque oculos durus jucundo avertere Ludo Eripere, et natis dulcem expectantibus escam ?

20. Where does Ovid write thus ?

Cum modo Frigoribus premitur, modo solvitur

JEstu Tempore non certo, corpora Languor habet.

21. Queis tentant et arantes arenas Littoris Assyrii viatores.

22. Quintus Curtius says of Persia : Regio non alia in tota Asia salubrior habetur, temperatum Coelum ; hinc perpetuum jugum opacum et um- brosum, quod JEstas laevat ; illinc Mare adjunctum quod modico tepore terras fovet. Where?

23.

TT TTIOT^TI.

Siccitas humores facit (jualitate sicciores.

24. Salus Civium in Legibus consistit.

25. Justitia una alias virtutes continet omnes.

26. Livy writes (where ?) : Continuus aspectus minus verendos magnos homines facit.

27. Ubi honor non est, ubi Cupiditas gloriae ease non potest.