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NOTES AND QUERIES. p>* s. xn. AUG. i, 1903.

Vladimir) ; Rascise=the march of Servia, on the Resca, a tributary of the Morava (Semen- dria is its chief town) ; Cumamse=Moldavia ; Thekse=Teck ; Ferreti = Pfirt, in south of Alsace ; Kyburgi, Kyburg, a county in Bur- gundy, came to the house of Austria 1326 ; Goriti<e=Gortz, or Goritz, near Istria ; Ana- sum, i.e., Auarum, the Avars, against whom Charlemagne set up the Marchia Auarum sive Orientalis, now Austria ; Burgovise, Burgau, about five miles south of the Danube, and about twenty-five east of Ulm ; Lusatise= Lausitz, between Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia (now partly in Prussia and partly in king- dom of Saxony) ; Portus Naoriis=Pordenone, a town in the Frioul or Friuli (Forum Julii) ; Colocencis, adj. of Colocza, in Hungary, on the Danube, halfway down the long north and south reach ; Bacientis, of Bacz. lower down the Danube ; Strigonensis, of Gran, also on the Danube, not very far from Buda Pest.

H. L. O.

BRIGHTON MANOR COURT ROLL (9 th S. xii. 48). The Appendix to the Report of the Local Records Committee gives the custodian of the Rolls of the Manor of Brighthelmston, otherwise Brighton, as Messrs. Upperton & Bacon, solicitors, 5|, Pavilion Buildings ; Manor of Brighthelmston Michelham, E. A. Nicholson, Esq., Lewes, Sussex, or Messrs. Glasier <fc Sons, 7, St. James Street, London ; Manor of Old Shoreham, G. A. Flowers. Esq., solicitor, Steyning, Sussex.

GERALD MARSHALL.

RIMING EPITAPH (9 th S. xi. 487 : xii. 51). " We shall die all," &c., is not an epitaph. It occurs in more than one Cornish churchyard, and the wording shows that it was an in- scription pertaining to the churchyard sun- dial. The four words in the four lines read as a "square," and are a punning play upon the word "di-al." If read in straight lines, the words are " We shall die-all," etc. If read corner- wise, the words are "We die ! we die ! All, all, all, all!" It refers to the passing moments shown by the dial, and also, of course, to all mortals. W. IAGO, B.A.

Bodmin.

LUCRETIUS (9 th S. xii. 48). Surely Lucretius (v. 1135) need not have looked further than his own country to witness the fall of kings, and the substitution of a constitution which some held to be aristocratic and some to be democratic, but which unquestionably suffered from occasional episodes of mob rule. He may also have been thinking of Greece, or again of petty princelings whom he may have seen or heard of at Rome, refugees from popular uprisings. Lucretius's whole account

of the rise of civilization is most valuable, and is much more in consonance with the ideas of modern philosophers than with those of the French Encyclopedists.

HERBERT A. STRONG. University, Liverpool.

Lucretius (v. 11 36) is explained by Munro as a general description of transition from royal to constitutional forms of government. " Thus kings were overthrown and the rabble scrambled for supreme power : till nations, weary of violence, established laws and con- stitutions." The poet was probably thinking of the downfall of Greek tyrannies and Roman kings. J. L.

The query does not seem to admit of a satisfactory answer. Lucretius appears to be describing the primitive course of events quite generally, as he supposes it to have run, without any definite historical allusion. Had there been any such allusion, I should think Munro would have recognized it. But he merely gives the sense of the passage without further comment.

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath. [Very numerous replies are acknowledged.]

"DuDE" (9 th S. vi. 450; vii. 16). In 'A Dictionary of the Malagasy Language,' by J. J. Freeman and D. Johns (An-Tananarivo, 1835), one reads, " Dodo, s., a spendthrift, a prodigal, a thoughtless rake; a., daring, ad- venturous, improvident, wasteful, boasting, ostentatious, vain, showing off, prodigal." Perhaps this explains why the dodo bird (Didus ineptus}, whose relics at Oxford attract so much attention, got its name in an island not far from Madagascar, even if it is not the etymon of dude. E. S. DODGSON.

WILLIAM BLYTHE'S DESCENDANTS (9 th S. xii. 29). If your correspondent will refer to 9 th S. x. 281 he may find some details which may interest him, though certainly they do not answer the exact question he asks. How- ever, if he cares to communicate with me, I may be able to help him in his search for information. RONALD DIXON.

46, Maryborough Avenue, Hull.

DOG WHICH FOLLOWED THE DUG D'ENGHIEN

(9 th S. xii. 28). May one venture to believe that it was an impossibility for a dog to act as stated in Le Petit Journal of 29 March 1 When arrested at Ettenheim by a strong party of dragoons under a colonel, the truly unfortunate grandson of the Prince of Conde was hurried with the utmost speed to the citadel of Strasburg, and thence, after an interval of two days, transferred rapidly to