Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 120, February 14, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 120, February 14, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Hippopotamus, Behemoth._--The young animal which has drawn so much
attention hitherto, will increase in attractiveness as he acquires his
voice, for which the zoologist may now _arectis auribus_ await the
development. It has appeared singular to many who knew the Greek name of
this animal to signify _river-horse_, that he should be so unlike a
horse. Nevertheless, the Greeks who knew him only at a distance, as we
did formerly, named him from his voice and ears after an animal which he
so little resembles in other respects. The Egyptian words from which the
Behemoth of Job (chap. xl. v. 10.) are derived, more fitly designate him
as _water-ox_, _B-ehe-moūt_ = literatim, _the aquatic ox_.
T. W. B.
Lichfield.
_Curious Inscription_ (Vol. iv., pp. 88. 182.).--My ecclesiological
note-book supplies two additional examples of the curious kind of
inscription communicated by your correspondents J. O. B. and MR. E. S.
TAYLOR (by the way, the one mentioned by J. O. B. was found also at St.
Olave's, Hart Street; see Weever, _Fun. Mon._). These both occur at
Winchester Cathedral: the first near a door in the north aisle, at the
south-west angle:--
[<--] ILL PREC
AC ATOR
H VI [-->]
AMBVLA
The other on the south side:
CESSIT COMMVNI PROPRIVM JAM PERGITE
QVA FAS. 1632.
[-->]
ACR S ILL CH
S A IT A ORO
ERV F IST F
[<--]
W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.
[This curious inscription, with a translation, is given by Milner,
in his _History of Winchester_, vol. ii. p. 90.]
_Coins of Edward III. struck at Antwerp in 1337._--Ruding, in his
_Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain_ (3rd ed. p. 212.), describing
the coins of Edward III. (who often resided on the Continent, and whose
sister Eleanor was married to Raimond III., Duke of Guelder), says:
"In November A.D. 1337, according to Grafton, the king was made
vicar-general and lieutenant to the emperor, _with power to coin
money of gold and silver_. He kept his winter at the castle of
Louvain, and caused great sums of money, both of gold and silver,
to be coined at Antwerp."
And in the note:
"Chronicle [of Grafton?] _sub anno_. Froissart also mentions this
fact. The silver coins were probably struck with English dies, and
consequently _are not now to be distinguished_."
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