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any accusation as to " hypocrisy " from its use can be justified puzzles me. Rather does the phrase suggest to some of us a convenient, modest alternative against ex- cessive indulgence in an objectionable ego- tism. Anyway, " them 's my sentiments."

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

LATINITY (11 S. x. 468). Although a construction such as " monumentum po- nendum curavi " is that used by classical writers of the best period, yet, as may be seen from the ' Thesaurus Linguae Latinae,' tcm. iv. col. 1500, there are many instances in later writers, especially those on juris- prudence and in inscriptions, in which the passive infinitive is found instead of the gerundive ; for instance, " pontem restitui curaverunt," ' Corp. Inscr. Lat.,' xi. 826 (a. 260). EDWARD BENSLY.

Lewis and Short's ' Dictionary ' shows that the construction of euro with an accu- sative and passive infinitive is occasionally found in classical authors, e.g. : -

" Cic., ' De Fin.,' iii. 19, 62 : Neque vero hsec iotef se oongruere possent, ut natura et procreare vellet, et diligi procreates uon curaret. Jusfciu., ii. 12, 2 : Symbolos proponi et saxis proscribi curat."

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

There seems to be some authority, but not much, for the use of the infinitive passive in J. K.'s " monumentum poni curavit." The dictionaries quote " biblio- thecas reparari curavit " from Columella, and " symbolos proponi et saxis proscribi " from Justinian. . B. B.

[HARMATOPEGOS also thanked for reply.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. x. 468). " Over the hills and far away." This line of a song called ' Distracted Jockey's Lamentation ' (' Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs ') was in considerable vogue at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It is quoted in ' The Excellent New Ballad ' written apropos of the quarrel between George I. and his heir, which culminated in the expulsion of the latter and his court from St. James's Palace. The sprightly demeanour of Mary Bellenden, the beautiful maid of honour of the Princess of Wales, is there alluded to :

But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps Sin^s 'O'er the hills and far away," i.sing doleful dumps.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading.

This occurred in one of the commonest nursery rimes familiar to me as a child in South Notts. The rime ran :

When I was young and had no sense I bought a fiddle tor eighteenpence, And all the tunes that I could play Was [tic] ' Over the hills and far away.'

C. C. B.

LLEWELYN AP REES AP GRONO, 1359 (11 S. ix. 410). In the pedigree of Price of Glyn Nedd, which is that of Llewelyn ap Rees ap Grono and his descendants, in the late G. T. Clark's genealogies of Glamorgan (' Lim- bus Patrum Morganiae,' 1886), pp. 150-52, the ancestor from whom the family is derived is said to be Eineon ap Collwyn. Eineon was, however, a younger son of Cedifor ap Collwyn, the last native Prince of Dyfed (approximately, Pembroke). Accord- ing to the ' Ann. Cambriae ' and ' Brut y Twysogion ' (Rolls ed.), Cedifor died 1089, a date Prof. T. F. Tout (' D.N.B.,' Eineon ap Collwyn) corrects to 1092. Shortly after his death his sons were at war with Rhys ap Tewdwr, Prince of Deheubarth, and were defeated by him. Eineon fled to Glamorgan, and in the legendary history of the conquest of that principality by Robert fitz Hamon, he plays a large, if not a very honourable part.

Son of a prince who died in 1092, Eineon, or " ^Eneas sonne to Cedivorus, sometime Lord of Demetia " (Dyfed) as Rees Meyrike in his ' Book of Glamorgan Antiquities ' (Phillipps's ed., 1825), quoting from Hum- phrey Llwyd's ' Breviary of Brytaine ' (1573), calls him having settled in Glamorgan, " survived into the time of Robert Consul," that is, Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan, Fitz-Harnon's son-in-law and successor : and, as Mr. J. H. Round has shown, in his paper on ' The Creation of the Earldom of Gloucester,' that Robert of Caen, Henry I.'s natural son, was created Earl between 1121 and 1122, Eineon lived till after 1122. That he was not a very old man at his death may be inferred from a peni- tential grant of land to Llandaff by Jestin ab Gwrgant circa 1070 ('Lib. Landav.'), in which an Eineon, presumably this Eineon ab Cedifor, is named as " quidem nepos Gistini Enniaun nomine. .. .juvene." If, then, Eineon was a youth circa 1070, at the time of his death, circa 1125, he was about 75.

I have rather laboured the point, but I wished to establish the dates, as they will more readily show the absurdity of supposing, as all the printed and manuscript pedigrees of his Glyn Nedd descendants assert, that