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Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 58. |
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1850. |
Price Threepence. |
CONTENTS.
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Notes:— |
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Further Notes on the Hippopotamus |
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Parallel Passages: Coleridge, Hooker, Butler, by J. E. B. Mayor |
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Shakspeare and the old English Actors in Germany, by Albert Cohn |
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Ten Children at a Birth |
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George Herbert and Bemerton Church, by H. T. Ellacombe |
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Minor Notes:—Lord Mayor's Show in 1701—Sir Thomas Phillipps's MSS.—Translation from Owen, &c.—Epigram on the late Bull—Bailie Nicol Jarvie—Hogs not Pigs—The Baptized Turk |
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Queries:— |
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Gray—Dryden—Playing Cards |
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Minor Queries:—Pretended Reprint of Ancient Poetry—The Jews' Spring Gardens—Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility—"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"—Whipping by Women—Lærig—MS. History of Winchester School—Benedicite—The Church History Society—Pope Ganganelli—Sir George Downing—Solemnization of Matrimony—Passage in Bishop Butler—The Duke of Wharton's Poetical Works—Titus Oates—Translations of Erasmus' Colloquies and Apuleius' Golden Ass, &c. |
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Replies:— |
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Holme MSS.—The Cradocks |
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Antiquity of Smoking |
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Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi |
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Albemarle, Title of, by Lord Braybrooke |
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Replies to Minor Queries:—Cromwell Poisoned—"Never did Cardinal bring Good to England"—Gloves not worn in the Presence of Royalty—Nonjurors' Oratories in London—"Filthy Gingran"—Michael Scott—The Widow of the Wood—Modum Promissionis—End of Easter—First Earl of Roscommon—Dryden's "Absolom and Achitophel"—Cabalistic Author—Becket—Aërostation—Kilt—Bacon Family, &c. |
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Miscellaneous:— |
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Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. |
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Books and Odd Volumes Wanted |
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Notices to Correspondents |
NOTES.
FURTHER NOTES ON THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.
The following remarks are supplementary to a note on the hippopotamus in Vol. ii, p. 35. In that note the exhibition of the hippopotamus at the Roman games is not traced lower than the time of the Emperor Commodus. Helagabalus, however, 218-22 A.D., had hippopotami among the various rare animals which he displayed in public as a part of his state. (Lamprid. c. 28) A hippopotamus was likewise in the vast collection of animals which were prepared for the Persian triumph of Gordian III., but were exhibited at the secular games celebrated by the Emperor Philip in the 1000th year of Rome, 248 A.D. (Capitol. in Gordian. Tert., c. 33.) In the seventh eclogue of Calpurnius, a countryman describes the animals which he saw in the Roman amphitheatre, among which is the hippopotamus:
"Non solum nobis silvestria cernere monstra
Contigit; æquoreos ego cum certantibus ursis
Spectavi vitulos, et equorum nomine dignum,
Sed deforme genus, quod in illo nascitur amni
Qui sata riparum venientibus irrigat undis."
VII. 64—8.
Calpurnius is generally referred to the time of Carus and Numerian, about 283 A.D.; but his date is not determined by any satisfactory proof. (See Dr. Smith's Dict. of Ancient Biog. and Myth. in v.)
There is no trace of a live hippopotamus having been brought to Europe between the time specified in the last of these testimonies and the middle of the sixteenth century. When Belon visited Constantinople, he saw there a living hippopotamus, which had been brought from the Nile:
"L'animal que j'ai veu vivant à Constantinople (he says), apporté du Nil, convenoit en toutes