Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
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"But these ancient names were quite worn out of use in the
English Saxon War; and all the countries lying north or the
other side of the arme of the sea called Humber, began, by
a Saxon name, to be called [Old English: Northan-Humbra-ric]
that is, the Kingdome of Northumberland; which name,
notwithstanding being now cleane gone in the rest of
the shires, remayneth still, as it were, surviving in
Northumberland onely; which, when that state of kingdome
stood, was known to be a part of the _Kingdome of Bernicia_,
which had _peculiar petty kings_, and reached from the River
Tees to Edenborough Frith."
At p. 817. Camden traces the etymology of _Berwick_ from _Bernicia_.
P.C.S.S.
_Cæsar's Wife_.--If the object of "NASO'S" Query (No. 18. p. 277.) be
merely to ascertain the origin of the proverb, "Cæsar's wife must be
above suspicion," he will find in Suetonius (Jul. Cæs. 74.) to the
following effect:--
"The name of Pompeia, the wife of Julius Cæsar,
having been mixed up with an accusation against
P. Clodius, her husband divorced her; not, as he said,
because he believed the charge against her, but because
he would have those belonging to him as free from
suspicion as from crime."
J.E.
[We have received a similar replay, with the addition of a
reference to Plutarch (Julius Cæsar, cap. 10.), from several
other kind correspondents.]
_Nomade_ (No. 21. p. 342.).--There can be no doubt at all that the
word "nomades" is Greek, and means pastoral nations. It is so used
in Herodotus more than once, derived from [Greek: nomos], pasture:
[Greek: nem_o], to graze, is generally supposed to be the derivation
of the name of Numidians.
C.B.
_Gray's Elegy_.--In reply to the Query of your correspondent "J.F.M."
(No. 7. p. 101.), as well as in allusion to remarks made by others
among your readers in the following numbers on the subject of Gray's
_Elegy_, I beg to state that, in addition to the versions in foreign
languages of this fine composition therein enumerated, there is one
printed among the poem, original and translated, by C.A. Wheelwright,
B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, published by Longman & Co. 1811.
(2d. edition, 1812.) If I mistake not, the three beautiful stanzas,
given by Mason in his notes to Gray, viz. those beginning,--
"The thoughtless world to majesty may bow,"
"Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around,"
"Him have we seen," &c.
(the last of which is so remarkable for its Doric simplicity, as well
as being essential to mark the concluding period of the contemplative
man's day) have not been admitted into any edition of the _Elegy_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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