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the lines run : " qualem leonem jam lact et uberibus fulvae parentis remotum"; an fulvus seems to be an appropriate anc usual epithet of leo, as Virgil, ' ^Eneid,' II 722, " Fulvique insternor pelle leonis."

A. GWYTHER.

Although the verses are at first sigh rather involved, the sense is quite clear. The fulva mater is the mother of the leo. T< make her the mother of the goat would b to turn sense into nonsense, for then wha would become of the dente novo, by which th goat fears she is about to perish ? Besides fulvus is the usual and proper epithet of th leo, WM. E. BROWNING.

^My old schoolmaster, Benjamin Hal Kennedy, was particularly severe on any on< of us who construed caprea by goat. Wha he said in effect was this : caper, he- goat capra, capella, she-goat ; caprea, capreolus roe-deer. So Orelli on Hor.,' Odes,' IV. iv 13 : " Caprea nostris zoologis cervus capre olus ' Reh,' ne cum ' capra ' confundatur cavendum est." GEORGE CHRISTIAN.

Tickencoto Rectory, Stamford.

ST. MARY'S, SOHO : JOSEPH GEORGIRENES ARCHBISHOP OF SAMOS (11 S. x. 450). I have a little book :

" A Description of the Present State of Saraos Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos. By Joseph Georgirenes, Arch-Bishop of Samos. Now living in London. Translated by one that knew the Author in Constantinople. July 14, 1677. Licensed, W. Jane. London, Printed by W. G. and sold by Moses Pitt, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1678."

It is dedicated, in English, " To the Most High Prince of Royal Birth, James, Duke of York."

The dedication in the, presumably, original Greek appears at the end of the prefatory matter. In this the Archbishop is named 'I o Tfdypyeip-ijvrjs. There is very little reference to himself in his book.

" Since Samos has been an Arch-Bishoprick, there has been hitherto but eight ; 1. Atha- nasius ; 2. Anthimus ; 3. Parthenius ; 4. Cor- nelius ; 5. Christophorus ; (5. Neophytus ; 7. Joseph (who writ this History in vulgar Greek) and Philaretus that now succeeds him." P. 34. After this come short accounts of these archbishops. Towards the end of them is the following :

" Neophytus of Siphanto sat 6 years, and deceased in the Island.

" After him came Joseph Georgirenc [sic], of the Island of Milos, who was consecrated, October 7. 1666. He sat here five years, till after the taking of Candic, the Turks grew more populous, and consequently more abusive :

So that wearied with their injuries, he retired to the Holy Grotto of the Apocalypse, in the Isle of Patmos.

" After he had voluntarily retir'd from his Arch-Bishoprick, the Patriarch of Constanti- nople did presently substitute in his place Phil- aretus of the Isle of Siphanto." P. 37.

The above extracts contain, I think, all which the book gives about Joseph Georgi- renes. Another, however, is, I think, inter- esting as it concerns his office :

" When a new Arch-Bishop comes, he shews his Patent from the Grand Signior to the Caddee j then summons all the Proesti of the Villages, to whom having read his Patent, he has it Regis- ter'd in the publick Records of the Island. This done they all accompany him to the Cathedral Church, where after th Beading of his Institu- tions, given by the Patriarch, he is plac'd in the Archiepiscopal Throne, where every one comes to kiss his Hand, and he bestows upon them his Benediction ; and then makes them a Speech (if he find himself of sufficient capacity to do 't.) This is the way of his Investiture into the Arch- Bishoprick of Samos and Nicaria.

" At his first coming, the Papas, or Parish Priest of the Church of his Residence presents him 15, or 20 Dollers ; they of the other Churches accord- ing to their Abilities. The first year of his coming, every Parish Priest pays him 4 Dollers, and the following years 2. Every Lay-man pays him 48 Aspers, and the following years 24. The rest of his Revenues comes in by Ordinations and Marriages. One part of the Island come to Megale Chore, where he Resides, for Licenses to Marry, the other part to his Vicar General at Carlovasi. The Samians pay one Doller for a License ; all Strangers two : But he that comes after first Marriage for a License for a second, or thiid, pays three or four." Pp. 33, 34.

In ' A Voyage into the Levant,' by M. (Joseph Pitton de) Tourncfort, London, 1718 (translated by John Ozell), vol. i. a. 308, in Letter X., is the following :

" The Bishop of this Island [Samos], who is also Bishop of Nicaria, resides at Cora, and

njoys about 2000 Crowns annual Income.

Besides which he draws a considerable Revenue

jy blessing the Waters and the Cattel, which ceremony is perform'd the beginning of May. All the Milk-meats and all the Cheese that are made that day, belong to the Bishop : he has

ikewise two Beasts out of every Herd."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

DICKENS AND WOODEN LEGS (11 S. x. 409, t54). I have been waiting for the quota- ion which, more than any other, bespeaks he fascination exercised over Dickens by wooden legs. It is Dick Swiveller's pathet'c >utburst when Soph\ r Wackles married Mr. Cheggs :

Tet loved I as man never loved that hadn't wooden legs,

my heart, my heart is breaking for love of Sophy Cheggs.

G. W. E. R.