_Passage in Orosius_ (Vol. vii., pp. 399. 536.).--I cannot exactly subscribe to the three propositions of MR. E. THOMSON, which he deduces from his observations on "twam tyncenum" in Alfred's _Orosius_. In the first place, the sentence in which the word _tyncenum_ occurs is perfectly gratuitous on the part of Alfred, or whoever paraphrased Orosius in Anglo-Saxon. No such assertion appears in Orosius, so that we have no means of comparing it with the original. The occurrence, as recounted by both Orosius and Herodotus, is attributed to a _horse_ (a sacred horse, Herod.), not to a _horseman_, _knight_, or _thane_. What is meant by the Anglo-Saxon text is, certainly, anything but clear, as it stands in Barrington's edition; and he himself confesses this, and does not admit it into his English translation. Dr. Bosworth seems to have wisely omitted the word in the second edition of his dictionary; and Thorpe confesses he can make nothing of it, in his _Analecta_. We find no such word in Caedmon, Beowulf, or the _Saxon Chronicle_; and the only reference made by Dr. Bosworth, in his first edition, is to this very place in Alfred's _Orosius_, in which he seems to have followed Lye. May it not have been an error in the earlier transcribers of the MS., and the real word have been _twentigum_, _i. e._ he ordered his thane to pass over the river _with twenty men_, since the thane, by himself, could have been but of little use on the other side the river? However this may be, the fact is not historical at all, and therefore, as respects history, is of little consequence. JOHN ORMAN, M.A. Cambridge. _Pugna Porcorum_ (Vol. vii., p. 528.).--The author of this poem, as is generally believed (though its production has also been assigned to Gilbertus Cognatus or Cousin), was Joannes Leo Placentius, or Placentinus, of whom the following account is given in the _Biographie Universelle_: "Jean-Leo Placentius ou Le Plaisant, n'est connu que comme l'auteur d'un petit poeme _tautogramme_, genre de composition qui ne peut offrir que le frivole merite de la difficulte vaincue. Ne a Saint Trond, au pays de Liege, il fit ses etudes a Bois-le-Duc, dans l'ecole des Hieronomytes; embrassa la vie religieuse, au commencement du seizieme siecle, dans l'ordre des Dominicains, et fut envoye a Louvain pour y faire son cours de theologie. Les autres circonstances de sa vie sont ignorees; et ce n'est que par conjecture qu'on place sa mort a l'annee 1548. On peut consulter sur cet ecrivain, la _Bibl. Belgica_ de Foppens, et les _Scriptores ordin. Praedicator._ des PP. Quetif et Echard." [Greek: Alieus]. Dublin.