Though the idea in the Antigone closely resembles that which is cited in the Scholia, it seems more than probable that the original source of both passages is derived from some much earlier author than a cotemporary of Sophocles. As to the line given in Boswell, it is not an Iambic verse, nor even Greek. It was probably made out of the Latin by some one who would try his hand, with little knowledge either of the metre or the language. MR. BUCKTON says, that to translate late [Greek: oligoston] _very short_, is not to translate agreeably to the admonition of the old scholiast. Now, the words of the scholiast are [Greek: oude oligon], _not even a little_, that is, _a very little_: so [Greek: oude tutthon], [Greek: oud' êbaion], {43} [Greek: oude minuntha], and many forms of the same kind. E. C. H. _B. L. M._ (Vol. viii., p. 585.).--The letters B. L. M., in the subscription of Italian correspondence, stand for _bacio le mani_ (I kiss your hands), a form nearly equivalent to "your most obedient servant." In the present instance the inflection _baciando_ (kissing) is intended. W. S. B. "_The Forlorn Hope_" (Vol. viii., pp. 411. 569.).--For centuries the "forlorn hope" was called, and is still called by the Germans, _Verlorne Posten_; by the French, _Enfans perdus_; by the Poles and other Slavonians, _Stracona poczta_: meaning, in each of those three languages, a detachment of troops, to which the commander of an army assigns such a perilous post, that he entertains no hope of ever rescuing it, or rather gives up all hope of its salvation. In detaching these men, he is conscious of the fate that awaits them; but he sacrifices them to save the rest of his army, _i. e._ he sacrifices a part for the safety of the whole. In short, he has no other intention, no other thought in so doing, than that which the adjective _forlorn_ conveys. Thus, for instance, in Spain, a detachment of 600 students volunteered to become a _forlorn hope_, in order to defend the passage of a bridge at Burgos, to give time to an Anglo-Spanish corps (which was thrown into disorder, and closely pursued by a French corps of 18,000 men) to rally. The students all, to the last man, perished; but the object was attained. It much grieves me thus to sap the foundation of the idle speculation upon a word the late Dr. Graves indulged in, and which Mr. W. R. Wilde inserted in the _Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science_ for February, 1849; but, on the other hand, I rejoice to have had the opportunity of endeavouring to destroy the very erroneous supposition, that Lord Byron had fallen into an error in his beautiful line: "The full of hope, misnamed _forlorn_."