Arthur Hopton, whom A. E. B. quotes against me (but the quotation is from chapter xiv., not xiii.), is wrong in his law. The lawyers, from Coke down to our own time, give both days, the natural and artificial, as legal days. See Coke Littleton (Index, _Day_), the current commentators on Blackstone, and the usual law dictionaries. Nevertheless, this discussion will serve the purpose. No one denies that the day of majority now begins at midnight: no one pretends to prove, by evidence of decisions, or opinion of writers on law, that it began otherwise in 1600. How then did Ben Jonson make it begin, as clearly A. E. B. shows he does, at six o'clock (meaning probably a certain sunrise)? Hopton throws out the natural day altogether in a work on chronology, and lays down the artificial day as the only one known to lawyers: it is not wonderful that Jonson should have fallen into the same mistake. A. DE MORGAN. * * * * * SIMILARITY OF IDEA IN ST. LUKE AND JUVENAL. (Vol. viii., p. 195.) I send, as a pendant to MR. WEIR'S lines from Juvenal, the following extract from Cicero: "Sed in ea es urbe, in qua haec, vel plura, et ornatiora, _parietes ipsi loqui_ posse videantur."--Cic. _Epist._, 1. vi. 3.: Torquato, Pearce's 12mo. edition. Most, if not all, of the readers of "N. & Q." are I believe, pleased by having their attention drawn to parallel passages in which a similarity of idea or thought is found. Let us adopt for conciseness the term "parallel passages" (frequently used in "N. & Q."), as embracing every kind of similarity. Contributions of such passages to "N. & Q." would form a very interesting collection. I should be particularly pleased by a full collection of parallel passages from the Scriptures and ancient and modern literature, and especially Shakspeare. (See MR. BUCKTON'S "Shakspearian Parallels," _ante_, p. 240.) To prevent sending passages that have been inserted in "N. & Q.," every note should refer to the note immediately preceding. I send the following parallel passages with some hesitation, because I have not my volumes of "N. & Q." at hand, to ascertain whether they have already appeared, and because they are probably familiar to your readers. I do not, however, send them as novelties, but as a contribution to the collection which I wish to see made: "[Greek: Apo de tou me echontos kai ho echei arthesetai ap' autou.]"--_Matt._ xxv. 29., _Luke_ xix. 26. "Nil habuit Codrus. Quis enim hoc negat? et tamen illud Perdidit infelix totum nihil."--_Juvenal_, I. iii. 208. The rich man says: "[Greek: Psuche, echeis polla agatha keimena eis ete polla; anapauou, phage, pie, euphrainou]."--_Luke_ xii. 19. "Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength but trusted unto the multitude of his riches."--_Ps._ lii. 8.