I find that in various languages the word stands thus: in the Latin of the middle age, avercoccius-in the modern Greek, BeрKOKKIOVin the Italian, albercocco, albicocca-in the Spanish, albaricoque-and all these various words, undeducible from the Latin præcox, are readily derivable from the Arabic word, the prefix al, which is merely the article, being in some cases dropped, and in others retained.

I may add, as a curious fact, that, in the south of Italy, of which I am a native, the common people call the apricot verricocca, and the peach precucco, although the former ripen earlier than the latter. A. P. DI Pio, Italo-Græcos.

Carlisle.

"Plurima gemma latet cæcâ tellure sepulta' (Vol. ii., p. 133.). In the course of my reading, some time back, I met with a passage which was given as a quotation from Bishop Hall. I transcribe it, as it appears to me to approach nearer to the above hexameter than even Gray's lines:

"There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth; many a fair pearl in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor ever shall be."

Time when Herodotus wrote (Vol. ii., p. 405.). — The passage in Herodotus which shows that he was still employed on his history when he was seventy-five, is in his first book. But A. W. H. thinks, that, as it is a general introduction, showing why he mentioned all places, small or great, it must have been written at the beginning. I should infer the contrary; that he would give an account why he had done so after he had done it, and not while it rested merely in intention.

But perhaps it may be said, that is in the former part of the sentence, and therefore might have been repeated in the latter part, which is the converse of it, though it might not be exactly the

proper tense.

However, F. Clinton puts down his birth B. C. 484; 452 or 456 as the years in which he read his History at the Olympic Games; and 408 as a year in which he was still adding to it.

However, if he wrote the passage when he was thirty, that would justify the past tense, which

Translations of Apuleius, &c. (Vol. ii., p. 464.).— In answer to your correspondent, G. P. I., con cerning a translation of the Golden Ass of Apuleius, I beg you will insert the following particulars.

There is a copy in the British Museum (Press Mark, case 21. b.) of a translation by Adlington The title is as follows:- The XI. Bookes of the Golden Asse, conteining the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, enterlaced with an excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupido and Psiches, set out in the iiii. v. and vi. Bookes. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by William Adlington. Imprinted at London, in Fleet streate, and the sign of the Oliphante, by Henry Wykes. Anno 1566." This work is of extreme rarity. At the end of the Dedicatory Epistle there is a MS. note, which I transcribe:"This translation and its author has escaped ye notice of the Industrious Oxford Antiquary, for I find not his name in the Athen. Oxon., nor is the book menconed (mentioned) in Mr. Ames's Typographical Antiquities, both which omissions add a singular rareness to this scarce book. R. E. W." The pagination of the book is only on one side, and contains 127 folios, including the table of contents. Ritson (vide note on fly-leaf') does not notice this edition (1566), nor the second in 1571, but quotes that of 1596. KENNETH MACKENZIE.

Taylor's translation of Apuleius's Golden Ass, Lond. 1822, 2 vols., is said by Lowndes to be an esteemed version.

The French translations of the same work, according to De Bure (see Manuel du Libraire), very inferior.

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grassor,

Etymology of Grasson" (Vol. iii., p. 8.). Grasson appears to be derived from " "to assail." Livy somewhere has the following "Grassor in possessionem agri❞—which would be rendered, To enter upon it by force;" it being only by the payment of the fine (Grasson) that the entry, "Grassor," or alienation of copy hold lands, could be warded off: hence the act of the lord of the manor (Grassor) became the name for the fine paid by the tenant, "Grasson."

BLOWER.

Lynch Law (Vol. iii., p. 24.).—Webster's Ame- i

* Wood.

an Dictionary (1848) explains this phrase

us

"The practice of punishing men for crimes and fences by private unauthorized persons, without a gal trial. The term is said to be derived from a irginian farmer, named Lynch, who thus took the w into his own hands." (U.S.)

Webster is considered the highest authority in merica, or I should not offer the above. G. H. B. "Talk not of Love" (Vol. iii., p. 7.).—The song oted by your Querist, A. M., was written by rs. MacLehose, the "Clarinda" of Burns, and is be found in most of the lives of the Scottish oet.

[J. H., JR., says it is printed in Chambers's Jouril, No. 1. New Series. DANIEL FERGUSON points em out at p. 212. of a Collection of Songs of England d Scotland, published by Cochrane, of Waterloo lace; and in vol. ii. of Johnson's Scots Musical Juseum; and G. T. also refers to the last-named colction.]

The Butcher Duke (Vol. iii., p. 8). The ong referred to by MEZZOTINTO is to be found In most of the collections of Scotch songs, under he name of "Bonnie Laddie, Highland Laddie," r which old air it was written; or, when only rtially printed, by the commencing line of one 'its stanzas:

"Geordie sits in Charlie's chair."

It is one of the numerous Jacobite songs comosed either about 1715, by some one "out in the ifteen," or later by a poet of "the Forty-five." The author's name is unknown. In the collection of Scottish songs, published by Robert Chambers 1 1829, the song, consisting of no less than wenty-two stanzas, will be found at p. 367.

[L. M. M. R. has also kindly transcribed the song rom the Scots Musical Museum; and DR. C., of Newastle, who says "it is well known in the remoter disricts of Northumberland." obligingly offers to furnish MEZZOTINTO with a copy, if he should desire it.]

Curfew (Vol. ii., p. 103.).—The Curfew is rung Handsworth, near Sheffield. H. J. Robertson Struan (Vol. iii., p. 40.). — As one of ose who quarter the coat of Robertson Struan, I my perhaps be able to afford C. R. M. some slight formation. My maternal grandfather was a son William Robertson, of Richmond, one of whose ughters married Sir David Dundas, Bart. The ms borne by him were, Gules, three wolves' ads erased, langued, azure. A selvage man in ains hanging beneath the shield. Crest, a bare bit, supporting a regal Crown. Motto, "Virtis Gloria Merces." W. J. BERNHARD SMITH. Temple.

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