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treated as though it were the name of the man who committed suicide (his name was Cleombrotus ; Ambraciotes means a native of Ambracia), and forte being rendered " perhaps " instead of " by chance " or " as it happened." The editor would appear not to have examined the original Greek of this epigram with care.

Vol. ii. p. 32, 1. 14 (Part. II. sect. ii. memb. i. subs, ii.; p. 236, 1. 2, in 6th edit.): "to have ventrem bene moratum, as Seneca calls it." Shilleto translates v. b. m. by "a healthy stomach." This spoils the phrase. It means "a well-behaved stomach." "A well-gouerned bellie " is Lodge's rendering.

Vol. ii. p. 140, 1. 11 from foot (Part. II. sect. ii. memb. vi. subs, iv.; p. 303, 1. 2 from foot, in 6th edit.) : "Misce stultitiam consiliis brevern" is translated by Shilleto "Mix mirth and business." It is doing Horace less than justice to ignore the qualifying brevem.

Vol. ii. p. 170, 1. 10 (Part. II. sect. iii. memb. iii.; p. 321, 1. 20 from foot, in 6th edit.) : "'tis 'lubrica statio et proxima prsecipitio.' " Shilleto translates lubrica statio ** a dazzling position." Lubrica means, of course, "slip- pery" or "dangerous."

Vol. ii. p. 176, 1. 14 (Part. II. sect. iii. memb. iii.; p. 325, 1. 18, in 6th edit.) : calcas opes does not=" you despise riches " (A. K. S.), but, as the context clearly shows, " tread on riches," the reference being to sumptuous pavements.

Vol. iii. p. Ill, 1. 17 (Part. III. sect. ii. memb. ii. subs, iii.; p. 476, 1. 12 from foot, in 6th edit., where the member is by mistake numbered 3) : " hie mulier, hsec vir." Shilleto translates this "The woman is masculine, the man effeminate." "He-woman, she-man" (quasi 6 yvv-q, 17 avrjp), would be nearer the mark. I take the following titles from the B.M. Catalogue : " Hie Mulier ; or, the

Man-Woman : being a Medicine to cure

the Staggers in the Masculine-Feminines of our Times. Exprest in a brief Declamation [London, 1620?], 4," and "Hsec- Vir; or, the Womanish-Man. Being an answere to a late Booke intituled Hic-Mulier. Exprest in a

brief e Dialogue betweene Hsec -Vir and

Hic-Mulier [London, 1620?], 4." With this should be compared John Owen's epigram 'In Quintam et Quintinam' (Lib. i. 149 of his first volume, dedicated to Lady Mary Neville, and published in 1606), which ends :

Contra naturam et mores, legesque loquendi, (Grammatici fugite hinc) haec Vir et hie Mulier.

For the full understanding of this it is neces- sary to remember the conventional use to which the pronoun hie, hcec, hoc, was put by

grammarians, to do duty, namely, as a definite article in giving the declension of nouns. See Priscian, xvii. 27 (vol. iii. p. 124 in Keil's 'Grammatici Latini'), "Pronomen ' hie,' quod grammatici in declinatione nominum loco prsepositivi, ut dictum est, ponunt articuli, numquam in oratione sensum articuli habet." Compare Clenardus, ' Institutiones Absolu- tissimae in Grsecam Linguam ' (p. 6 in ed. of 1543, printed at Lyon by Gryphius), " Latini inter .declinandum usurpant Hie, Haec, Hoc : Grseci uero Articulum 6, 17, TO : quern uocant Prsepositiuum," and Shakespeare, ' Merry Wives,' Act IV. sc. i. 41, "Articles are bor- rowed of the pronoun, and be thus declined, Singulariter, nominative, hie, heec, hoc." Finally, Burton (vol. iii. p. 233, 1. 13 from foot, Part. III. sect. ii. memb. v. subs. ii. ; p. 554, 1. 17 from foot, in 6th edit., where the member is wrongly given as 6) has "There's as much difference of hcec, as hie ignis."

In vol. iii. p. 217, 1. 4 (Part. III. sect. ii. memb. iv. [v.] subs. i. ; p. 544, 1. 9, in 6th edit.), the familiar words of Vergil ('^En., J vi. 444) "curse non ipsa in morte relinquunt," are turned into nonsense by Shilleto's translation ; and in vol. iii. p. 470, 1. 20 (Part. III. sect. iv. memb. ii. subs. vi. ; p. 707, 1. 9, in 6th edit.), the simple words "Peccator agnoscat, Deus ignoscit," are thus " traduced " : u Let the sinner know [!], God pardons."

EDWAED BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia.

(To be continued.)

DR. ANTHONY SCATTERGOOD'S BIBLE. (See ante, p. 281.)

8. The Rev. T. H. A. Scrivener, D.C.L., &c., in 'The Authorized Edition of the English Bible (1611), its Subsequent Reprints and Modern Kepresentatives ' (1884, Cambridge Univ. Press, published for the Syndics), says in sect. 1, ' History of Text 1611 to Present Time,' p. 26: "Of the Bibles published during the latter part of the seventeenth century that of Hills and Field (small 8vo, London, 1660) is remarkable for certain additions to the original marginal notes of 1611, subsequently improved upon in a Cambridge quarto of 1682-3, bearing the name of John Hayes, the University printer, who had pre- viously put forth a well-known edition in 1677. The later of Hayes's two contains a great number of fresh textual references, the reputed work of Dr. Anthony Scattergood, and mostly taken from his Bible, also published at Cambridge in 1678." (Is the sugges- tion here that Hayes was not the publisher of the 1678 edition?)

9. Prof. J. E. B. Mayor, M. A., in a brief account of Anthony Scattergood (contained in a note in his edition of Baker's ' History of St. John's College '), enumerating Scattergood's writings, includes "A Bible at Cambridge 1678," and it is in reference to this as well as to the ' Annotationes in Vet. Test. - &c., that Mayor says that Scattergood "did some-