C. B. _The Coptic Language_ (Vol. ii., pp. 376. 499.).--The reply of HERMAPION to the questions put by J. E. is scarcely satisfactory. I will endeavour to answer then more directly. The Coptic language is not an inflected one; and it has very few affixes. There are many prefixes to its nouns and verbs, which before the former are articles or demonstrative pronouns. Between these prefixes and the noun or verb, pronominal infixes are introduced, by which possession is denoted in the case of a noun, and the subject in that of a verb. Thus, _ran_ is "a name;" _pi-ran_, "the name;" _pe-v-ran_, "his name;" _i_, is the verbal root, "come;" _a_, the prefix of the past tense; and _a-v-i_, "he came." Some nouns take affixes, as _jo-v_, "his head." Pronominal affixes are also joined to verbs to express their objects, and to prepositions. In the old Egyptian language, from which the Coptic is derived, there were more affixes. I am not aware that infixes have been met with in inscriptions prior to the eighteenth dynasty; and those which are in use are the same as the affixes which annexed to nouns denote possession, and to verbs the subject. The old Egyptian affixes which denoted the object of the verb, are in general different. _En-v-tu_ would be "he bringeth thee;" and _en-ka-su_, "thou bringest him." In Coptic, the former would be _e-o-en-k;_ the latter, _e-k-en-v_. Probably the Coptic prefixes were originally auxiliary verbs, or prepositions. The old Egyptian affixes greatly resemble the Hebrew ones, especially if _s_ be substituted for the Hebrew _h_; and it is very remarkable that the Assyrio-Babylonian affixes differ from the Hebrew principally in this same respect. In like manner, the causative conjugation is formed from the simple one by prefixing _h_ in Hebrew, but by prefixing _s_ in both Assyrio-Babylonian and Egyptian. No doubt can then exist as to the old Egyptian language being Semitic; but the opposition between the Semitic languages and the Indo-European ones is by no means so great as was formerly supposed. Relations between them are now clearly to be traced, which prove that they had a common origin, and that at no distant period. E. H. D. D. _Benedicite_ (Vol. ii., p. 463.) is, I believe, two words--_benedici te_--"that you may be blessed;" and not a single word, as PETER CORONA supposes. The ellipsis is of _jubeo_, or some similar word. D. X.