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NOTES AND QUERIES.

. XIL DEC. 5, 1903.

Andrea more than once elsewhere. Was he indebted to him here ? Or have I overlookec some source from which both alike drew 1 " {Hense's critical edition of Seneca's Epist. 1898, gives no hint of a var. led.}

P. 31, 1.22; 13, 15, "that of Columella.' See 'De Re Rust.,' V. i. In the next sentence

Columella writes "boni venatoris est

feras quamplurimas capere ; nee cuiquam culpse fuit non omnes cepisse." I have not been able to refer to the Pet. Nannius of the next note. Is hil name attached to the wrong quotation ?

P. 31, 1.31 ; 13, 23, "not three whole faults, as Scaliger in Terence." J. C. Scaliger, 4 Poetice,' vi. 3, finds no fault. He says that the three which learned men find in Terence
 * illis potius quam ei sunt oneri."

P. 32, 1. 32; 14, 4, "I have mingled sacra 2)rofanis." Hor., 'Epist.,' I. xvi.54.

P. 35, 1. 6 ; 15, 28,

At melius fuerat non scribere, naraque tacere Tutum semper erit.

This is the opening of the * Satyra,' which is the first piece in J. C. Scaliger's * Teretis- inata' (p. 76 in 1574 ed. of his 'Poemata'). The same quotation is made by Johann Crato von Kraftheim in a letter (1576) to J. J. Scaliger printed at the beginning of a new edition of the elder Scaliger's 'Exerci tationes.' Burton may have taken it from this place. EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia. (To be continued.)

A DICTIONARY SYNONYMS. He have more ; it .mirable

OF ENGLISH DIALECT

who has much would

is ever thus. The ad-

mirable work edited by Prof. Joseph Wright, 'The English Dialect Dictionary,' is almost in my possession, and I am long- ing for an addition to it, which I fancy might be more easily compiled now than it even could be the year after next. Before an able band of helpers is set free, will it not undertake to compile, under the direction of Dr. Wright, the desiderated work given as the heading of this humble note ? I suppose there are few of us who have not at some time wanted to know all the dialect equivalents of a stook, a donkey, a shed, or of something else; and though it may not be altogether

Erofitless, it is certainly time-consuming ibour in a busy age to have to examine -every precious page of the 'E.D.D.' to pick -out the poor dozen words of which we may be in search. I do not ask that space should be taken up by mention of the district in which each item is known of by quotation of examples illustrative of its employment. For

information of that kind the dictionary of synonyms might act as an index to the 'E.D.D.' itself. May this suggestion win consideration ! ST. SWTTHIN.

"FISCAL." The origin aljiscus was a basket woven of twigs or rushes, and, being used as a receptacle for money, became symbolical of the imperial treasury. In early English times, in like manner, the word "hariaper," i.e., hamper, had a similar signification. If the terms " bagging " and " netting " were not so clearly derived, in a peculiarly English way, from the sport of shooting and fishing, one might be inclined to connect them with these fiscal facts. W. C. B.

"EULACHON" AND ITS VARIANTS. (See ante, p. 210.) I regret that I cannot give the etymology of eulachon courteously asked for by MR. PLATT. I have consulted various lexicons and lists of Chinook and Jargon words in a vain search. The fact that the forms known to MR. PLATT are trisyllabic is no obstacle, however, for the earliest re- corded forms are dissyllabic ; they are ulken and olthen. Apparently the second syllable was slurred over so that the word appealed to the ears of early hearers as dissyllabic. The variants of this word are more numerous than are recorded in dictionaries ; they are eulachon, lioolakin, olthen, oolachan, oolackan, oolakan, oulachan, oulachon, oulacon, ulken, and uthlecan. In chronological sequence of publication they are ulken (Gass, 1807), olthen (Lewis and Clark, 1814), uthlecan (Irving, 1836), oulachan (Kichardson, 1836), eulachon (Lord, 1866), oulacon (Scammon, 1874), hoolakin (J. and G., 1881), oolachan (Nature, 1881), oolackan (Baillie-Grohman in Fortnightly Review, 1886), oulachon ('Century Diet.,' 1890), oolakan ('N.E.D.,'1903).

The forms most used have been oulachan, oolachan, and eulachon. Until about 1880 the first was predominant, and afterwards the last became accepted, and has now almost universally supplanted the earlier forms. Eulachon had, however, appeared in that
 * orm as early as 1866. Oolachan, oulachon,

and oulachan have been used by the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries : in the Report for 1902 (p. 112), lately published, oulachan is reverted to. I know of no authority for oolakan, accepted by the N.E.D.' as the proper form, outside of the Dictionary.'

An interesting coincidence is the similarity

of the earliest written form of the name

ulken) to the common name of the sculpin

n Denmark and Norway (ulk, ulke). The

pronunciation of the two, of course, would be