_W_ is not a distinct letter in the French alphabet; it is simply _double v_, and is pronounced like _v_, as in Wissant, Wimireux, Wimille, villages between Calais and Boulogne, and Wassy in Champagne. W. R. D. S. _Green Eyes_ (Vol. viii., p. 407.).--The following are quotations in favour of green eyes, in addition to MR. H. TEMPLE's: "An eagle, madam, Hath not so _green_, so quick, so fair an eye." _Romeo and Juliet_, Act III. Sc. 5. And Dante, in _Purgatory_, canto xxxi., likens Beatrice's eyes to emeralds: "Disser: fa che le viste non risparmi: Posto t' avem dinanzi agli smeraldi, Ond' Amor già ti trasse le sue armi." "Spare not thy vision. We have station'd thee Before the _emeralds_[8], whence Love, erewhile, Hath drawn his weapons on thee." Cary's _Translation_. I think short-sightedness is an infirmity more common among men of letters, authors, &c., than any other class; indeed, one is inclined to think it is no rare accompaniment of talent. A few celebrated names occur to me who suffered weakness of distinct vision to see but the better near. I am sure your correspondents could add many to the list. I mark them down at random:--Niebuhr, Thomas Moore, Marie Antoinette, Gustavus Adolphus, Herrick the poet, Dr. Johnson, Margaret Fuller, Ossoli, Thiers, Quevedo. These are but a few, but I will not lengthen the list at present. M----A S. [Footnote 8: Beatrice's eyes.] _Came_ (Vol. viii., p. 468.).--H. T. G. will find this word to be as old as our language. Piers Ploughman writes: "A cat _Cam_ when hym liked." _Vision_, l. 298. "A lovely lady _Cam_ doun from a castel." _Ib._ l. 466. Chaucer: "Till that he _came_ to Thebes." _Cant. T._ l. 985. Gower: "Thus (er he wiste) into a dale He _came_." _Conf. Am._ b. i. fol. 9. p. 2. col. l. Q. "_Epitaphium Lucretiæ_" (Vol. viii., p. 563.).--Allow me to send an answer to the Query of BALLIOLENSIS, and to state that in that rather scarce little book, _Epigrammata et Poematia Vetera_, he will find at page 68. that "Epitaphium Lucretiæ" is ascribed to Modestus, perhaps the same person who wrote a work _de re militari_. The version {113} there given differs slightly from that of BALLIOLENSIS, and has two more lines; it is as follows: "Cum foderet ferro castum Lucretia pectus, Sanguinis et torrens egereretur, ait: Procedant testes me non favisse tyranno, Ante virum sanguis, spiritus ante deos. Quam recte hi testes pro me post fata loquentur, Alter apud manes, alter apud superos." Perhaps the following translation may not be unacceptable: "When thro' her breast the steel Lucretia thrust, She said, while forth th' ensanguin'd torrent gush'd; 'From me that no consent the tyrant knew, To my spouse my blood, to heaven my soul shall show; And thus in death these witnesses shall prove, My innocence, to shades below, and Powers above.'" C--S. T. P.