See Menage, _Origines de la Langue Françoise_, Paris, 1650, in verb. "Cornard." I have only seen Reiff's edition of Artemidorus, 8vo. Lipsiæ, 1805. His illustrations of the passage (far too numerous to be quoted) seem to be curious, and likely to repay the reader for the trouble of examination. His note commences with a reference to Olaus Borrichius, _Antiqua Urb. Rom. facies_:-- "Alexander Magnus ....successores ejus..... in nummis omnes cornuti quasi Jovii, honore utique manifesto, donee cornuum decus in ludibria uxoriorum vertit somnorum interpres Artimidorus." On which he observes,-- "Benè. Nam ante Artimidorium nullus, quod sciam, hujus scommatis mentionem fecit. Quod enim Traug. Fred. Benedict. ad Ciceron. _Epist. ad Div._ 7.24. ad voc. 'Cipius' conjecit, id paullo audientus mihi videtur conjecisse." I have not succeeded in obtaining a sight of this edition of the Epistles. And I should feel much obliged to any one who would quote the "conjecture," and so enable your readers to gauge its "audacity" for themselves. Is it not odd that Reiff should have made no remark on the utter want of connection between the "honor manifestus," and the "ludibria" of Olaus? or on the [Greek: kata to legomenon] of the author that he was illustrating? {91} Artemidorus may certainly have been the first who _recorded_ the _scomma_; but the words [Greek: kata to legomenon] would almost justify us supposing that "--The horn Was a crest ere he was born." Menage (referred to above) evidently lays some stress on the following epigram, as an illustration of the question:-- [Greek: "Ostis eso purous katalambanei ouk agorazon, Keinou Amaltheias hae gunae esti keras."] Parmenon. _Anthol._ lib. ii. But I confess that I am utterly unable to see its point and therefore cannot, of course, trace its connection with the subject. Falstaff, it is true, speaks of the "horn of abundance," but then he assigns it to the husband, and makes the "lightness of the wife shine through it." (_K. Henry IV._ Act i. Sc. 2., on which see Warburton's note.) C. FORBES. Temple, April 25. L.C. may find the following references of service to him in his inquiry into the origin of this expression:--"Solanus ad Luc. D.M. 1. 2.; Jacobs ad Lucill. Epigr. 9.; Belin. ad Lucian, t. iii. p. 326.; Huschk. _Anal._ p. 168.; Lambec. ad Codin. § 126.; Nodell in _Diario Class._ t. x. p. 157.; Bayl. _Dict._ in Junone, not. E." Boissonade's note in his _Anecdotae_, vol. iii. p. 140. J.E.B. MAYOR. Marlborough College. * * * * * REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES _Shipster_ (Vol. ii., p. 30.).--If C. B. will consult Dr. Latham's _English Language_, 2nd ed., he will find that the termination _ster_ is not merely a _notion_ of Tyrwhitt's, but a fact. Sempstress has a _double_ feminine termination. _Spinster_ is the only word in the present English which retains the old feminine meaning of the termination _ster_. E.S. JACKSON.