{104} Domenico Theotocoupoulis, a Greek or Byzantine who settled at Toledo in 1577. He is said to have been a pupil of Titian. The picture so highly praised in the text is said by Professor Justi to be in “his worst manner,” and is indeed a very stiff performance. There are many of _El Greco’s_ pictures in Italy, where his work is often assigned to Bassano, Paul Veronese, and Titian. His acknowledged masterpiece is the Christ on Mount Calvary in the cathedral of Toledo. _El Greco_ died in 1625, after an uninterrupted residence of nearly forty years in Spain. {107} See _The Zincali_, part. ii. chap. vi. {111a} Borrow’s translation of St. Luke into Spanish gypsy was published with the following title: _Embéo e Majaró Lucas_. _Brotoboro randado andré la chipe griega_, _acána chibado andré o Romanó ó chipe es Zincales de Sesé_. (No place) 1837. A new edition was published five and thirty years later by the British and Foreign Bible Society, as _Criscote e Majaró Lucas chibado andré o Romano ó chipe es Zincales de Sesé_. Lundra, 1872. Both these works are now out of print, but I have had the advantage of seeing a copy of each in the library of the Society in Queen Victoria Street. {111b} _The Zincali_, part ii. ch. viii. {114} Modern linguistic science is so entirely at variance with these theories that it is difficult to add a note at once modest, instructive, or of reasonable length. On the whole it is perhaps better to leave the chapter entirely alone. {116a} See the Glossary. {116b} _Evangelioa San Lucasen Guissan_. _El Evangelio Segun S. Lucas_. _Traducido al vascuence_. _Madrid_: _Imprenta de la Compañia Tipografica_. 1838. {117} See _Proverbes Basques suivis des Poésies Basques_, by Arnauld Oihenart, 1847. {118a} See F. Michel, _Le Pays Basque_, p. 213, and the Glossary, _s.v._ ICHASOA. {118b} No one who has ever read the work of this _Abbé_ would ever think of citing it as a serious authority. It is entitled, _L’histoire des Cantabres par l’Abbé d’Iharce de Bidassouet_. Paris, 1825. Basque, according to the author, was the primæval language; _Noah_ being still the Basque for _wine_ is an etymological record of the patriarch’s unhappy inebriety! {118c} This work is entitled, _Euscaldun anciña anciñaco_, _etc._ _Donostian_, 1826, by Juan Ignacio de Iztueta, with an Introduction in Spanish, and many Basque songs with musical notation, but without accompaniment. {120} See further as to the Basques, Burke’s _History of Spain_, vol. i. App. I. {121a} 1838. {121b} See _ante_, p. 100, and Introduction. {121c} Ofalia was prime minister from November 30, 1837, to August, 1838, when he was succeeded by the Duke of Frias. {127} The mayor or chief magistrate. _Politico_ is here used in the old sense of civic, πολιτικὸς, of the πόλις; _gefe_, now spelt _jefe_ = chief. {129a} In _The Zincali_, part ii. ch. iv., Borrow places his imprisonment in March. {129b} Rather _civic_; see note on p. 127.