Mr. Halliwell gives a quotation from Stanyhurst, in which it means "dull persons"--an obvious misuse of it for Englishmen, and which Skene fortifies by an A.-S. derivation, but which is clearly not Cressida's meaning, or she would have said, "I _am_ Dulcarnon," not "I _am at_ Dulcarnon;" and so Mrs. Roper. It may seem difficult what Pandarus can mean: "Dulcarnon clepid is fleming of wretches, It semith hard, for wretchis wol nought lere For very slouthe, or othir wilfull tetches, This said is by them that ben't worth two fetches, But ye ben wise." Whether he means that wretches call it _fleming_ or not, his argument is, "You are not a wretch." Speght's derivation seems to mean, "Quod stultos vertit." _Fleamas_, A.-S. (Lye), is _fuga_, _fugacio_, from _flean_, to flee. Pandarus, I think, does not mean to give the derivation of the word, but its application of fools, a stumbling-block, or puzzle. C.B. [Footnote 5: Speght gives it in English letters, but Selden in Arabic.] [Footnote 6: Christman, _Comment. in Alfragan_, cap. ii. _Lysimachi_ Cornuum apud Cael. Rhodigin. _Antiq. lect._ 10. cap. xii., hic genuina interpretatio.] _Dr. Maginn._--The best account of this most talented but unfortunate man, is given in the _Dublin University Mag._, vol. xxiii. p. 72. A reprint of this article, with such additional particulars of his numerous and dispersed productions as might be supplied, would form a most acceptable volume. F.R.A. _America known to the Ancients._--To the list of authorities on this subject given in Vol. i., p. 342., I have the pleasure to add Father Laffiteau; Bossu[7], in his _Travels through Louisiana_; and though last, not least, Acosta, who in his _Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies_, translated by E.G. [Grimestone], 1604, 4to., devotes eighty-one pages to a review of the opinions of the ancients on the new world.