Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Translations from Æschylus._--Whose translation of the tragedies of
Æschylus is that which accompanies Flaxman's compositions from the same? I
ought to state that there is merely a line or two under each plate, to
explain the subject of each composition, and that my copy is the unreduced
size.
H.
Kingston-on-Thames.
[The lines are taken from N. Potter's translation of the Tragedies of
Æschylus, 4to., 1777.]
_Prince Memnon's Sister._--Who was Prince Memnon's sister, alluded to by
Milton in _Il Penseroso_?
J. W. T.
Dewsbury.
[Dunster has the following note on this line:--"Prince Memnon's sister;
that is, an Ethiopian princess, or sable beauty. Memnon, king of
Ethiopia, being an auxiliary of the Trojans, was slain by Achilles.
(See Virg. _Æn._ I. 489., '_Nigri_ Memnonis arma.') It does not,
however, appear that Memnon had any sister. Tithonus, according to
Hesiod, had by Aurora only two sons, Memnon and Emathion, _Theog._ 984.
This lady is a creation of the poet."]
_"Oh! for a blast," &c._--Who was the author of the couplet--
"Oh! for a blast of that dread horn,
On Fontarabian echoes borne?"
A. J. DUNKIN.
[The lines--
"O for the voice of that wild horn,
On Fontarabia's echoes borne,
The dying hero's call,"--
are by Sir Walter Scott, and form part of those which excited the
horror of the father of Frank Osbaldiston, when he examined his
waste-book in search of _Reports outward and inward_--Corn Debentures,
&c. See _Rob Roy_, chap. ii. p. 24. ed. 1829.]
_Robin Hood's Festival._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to a good
account of the festival of Robin Hood, which was so popular with our
ancestors, that Bishop Latimer could get no one to come to hear him preach
on that day?
In the churchwardens' accounts of St. Helens, Abingdon, published in the
first volume of the _Archæologia_, there is an entry in 1566 of the sum of
18d. paid for "setting up Robin Hood's Bower."
R. W. B.
[The best account of Robin Hood's festival on the first and succeeding
days of May is given in _Robin Hood: a Collection of all the Ancient
Poems, Songs, and Ballads, relative to that celebrated Outlaw_; [by
Joseph Ritson], among the notes and illustrations in vol. i. pp.
xcvii--cx. Consult also _A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode_, by John Matthew
Gutch, vol. i. pp. 60--64.; and George Soane's _New Curiosities of
Literature_, vol. i. pp. 231--236.]
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