"I may note that the rabble first changed their title, and were called _the mob_, in the assemblies of this club. It was their beast of burthen, and called first _mobile vulgus_, but fell naturally into the contraction of one syllable, and ever since is become proper English."--_Examen_, part III. ch. vii. p. 89. H. GARDINER. _Gen. Sir C. Napier_ (Vol. viii., p. 490.).--I may state, for the instruction of officers who think study needless in their profession, that, having enjoyed the intimate friendship of Sir C. Napier for some time before he had the command in the midland district of England, I constantly found him engaged in inquiries connected with his profession. He was always in training. Not long before this time he had returned from Caen, in Normandy, and he told me that when there he had surveyed the ground on which William the Conqueror had acquired military fame before he made his descent on England, and his conclusion was that that Conqueror was remarkably well instructed for his time in the art of war. He expressed his intention to write on this subject; but great events soon afterwards called him to India, which became the scene of his own mastery in military and civil command. T. F. _To Come_ (Vol. viii., p. 468.).--In the Lower Saxon dialect, to come is _camen_, and the imperfect, as in Gothic, _quam_. It would therefore seem that the English _came_ is not an innovation, but a partial restoration or preservation of a very ancient form. (See Adelung's _Wörterbuch_.) E. C. H. _Passage in Sophocles_ (Vol. viii., pp. 73. 478.).--The Italics were introduced to draw attention to the _new_ version which was adventured, "N. & Q." being an excellent medium for such suggestions. Sophocles having referred to "an illustrious saying of some one," and the old scholiast having furnished this saying, "[Greek: Hotan d' ho daimôn andri porsunêi kaka] [Greek: Ton noun eblapse prôton hôi bouleuetai]," it merely became necessary to compare the form which Sophocles adopted to suit his metre with the words of this "illustrious saying," whence it appeared that-- [Greek: hôi bouleuetai prassei d' oligoston chronon ektos atas]; and therefore I could not agree with the common version "and that he lives for a brief space apart from its visitation;" erroneous, as I submit, from the adoption of Brunck's reading [Greek: prassein], instead of reading, as I venture to do, with Hermann, [Greek: theos agei ... prassei d'], taking [Greek: theos] as the nominative of both verbs.