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Of Aphthonii IIpoyúμvaσpara there are several editions, among them the princeps in the Rhetores Græci, Aldus, 1508. This book, which is a collection of elementary exercises, was the regular composition book for boys before they went to the schools of the rhetoricians, at the time of its publication, circa 315 A.D., and again was the commonest text-book on the revival of letters. There is also an anonymous commentary on it, Aldus, 1509, folio. Phrynichus (an Arabian who settled in Bithynia), Epitome Dictionum Atticarum, 1601, is a handsome quarto that belonged to De Thou. Thomas Magister Sententiarum, Paris, 1532, has other grammarians bound with him in the same volume. Chrysoloræ Erotemata, Junta, 1540, was one of the first books of this class that circulated in Italy on the revival of letters. Of Theodorus Gaza, whose Greek grammar long enjoyed a high reputation, and was the principal basis of the Eton Greek grammar, there are three editions, the princeps, handsome large quarto with coloured initials into Latin by George Buchanan, R. Steph., 1550, is the chief remaining work, but we may add a grammar printed by Wolf, 1557; a Short Introduction, &c., London, 1607, an impression by J. Norton (Sir H. Savile's printer), with an emblematical title-page; Shorter Examples to Lily, for the use of Eton, London, 1700, and Ruddiman, Edin., 1725. There is a great wealth of old lexicons and cognate works, such as are found in every good library. We indicate a few of the rarer ones: the princeps of the three following folios,-Julius Pollux, Onomasticon, Aldus, 1502; Thesaurus Cornucopia et Hortus Adonidis, Aldus, 1496; and Photius, Myriobiblon, 1601, the book which Macaulay read "with much zest" in the Athenæum. Phavorinus (1523), Suidas (Ald., 1514), and Hesychius (Asulani, 1527),—are richly bound in russia, and are all extremely handsome folios. The best Latinity of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries rests on these shelves. I select six writers instead of Muretus, George Buchanan, Sadolet, and the other better-known Latinists of the time of Leo X. Philelphus (13981481), who learnt Greek of Chrysoloras and married his daughter, and who was professor of eloquence at Padua and quarrelled with Poggio, among his other compositions wrote many letters to Italians of note, of which we have a copy, Basle, 1500. The last letter is dated 1461. Longolius (Longueil), a native of Malines, was the only true Ciceronian of his time who was not a native of Italy. His Orationes et Epistolæ, Paris, 1530, printed by Badius Ascensius, with pretty initials, and Basle, 1558, were in repute even among Italian scholars. The De Gloria of Osorius, Flor., 1552, was sometimes fancied to be the lost work of Cicero with that title, and he was himself called the Cicero of Portugal, where he was bishop. We may mention from its connexion with Eton Reliquia Wottoniana (1685), lives, letters, poems, and characters; and two very learned ladies, Olympia Fulvia Morata and Anna Maria de Schurman. The works of the former, who was a native of Ferrara, including orations, dialogues, letters, and translations of some Psalms into Greek hexameters and sapphics, were collected by Cælius and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth (Basle, 1580). The latter, a German, corresponded with Saumaise, Vossius, and other great scholars of her time who recognized her learning. Her Opuscula Hebræa, Græca, Latina, Gallica, Lugd., 1648, comprise epistles, poems, and essays. It may be doubted whether many of the candidates for classical honours from Newnham or Girton will easily rival this now disregarded pair. It may be said in general that the vast erudition of the latter half of the sixteenth century and of the early part of the seventeenth is copiously re * Trevelyan's Life, vol. ii. p. 385. presented. To prove this at further length would be to transcribe the titles of the chief works of Budæus, Grotius, Barthius, Turnebus, Muretus, Sam. Petit, Scheffer, and Camerarius, of the Gronovii, the Vossii, the Spanheims, the Heinsii, and both the Scaligers (though of the last two rather more might be looked for); and at a later date of Fabricius, Usher, Bentley, and the rest of their learned brethren. Even in our own age of Primers some may still be glad to know that they can refer to these now half-forgotten authors, on whose foundations the bulk of our later, more portable, and sometimes more precise knowledge must, after all, be built. We might, perhaps, have expected to find here rather more of those groups of reputed conversation and table-talk of the learned which went by the name of the Ana; but the only specimens of this branch of literature appear to be the Parrhasiana of Le Clerc (under the feigned name of Theodorus Parrhasi), the Huetiana, the Menagiana, and the Mélanges de Littérature, par Vignuel-Marville. FRANCIS ST. JOHN THACKERAY. (To be continued.) LORD BYRON AT MISSOLONGHI. The following notes are taken from conversations held with Pietro Capsali (in whose house Byron lived and died) by my friend Mr. Colnaghi, erst Vice-Consul at Missolonghi, now H.B.M. Consul at Florence. I have ventured to append some explanatory and corrective notes of my own, for which I am prepared to accept the responsibility. Pietro Capsali-though not mentioned by previous chroniclers, so far as my memory serves me-was chief of the mines during both sieges of Missolonghi, and is, I believe, still living. "The Suliote soldiers in the town were always quar relling with the townspeople. Murders were of frequent occurrence. This state of things-a veritable reign of terror-became unbearable, and Byron was petitioned For this purpose 3,000 dollars were required,* and Byron by the inhabitants to pay off and disband the Suliotes. at first declined to disburse that sum. One evening,t while the poet was shooting, in company with Capsali, at a bottle poised on a reed in the water, his favourite pastime, a street row was reported. Byron ordered out Capsali, he said, ""Questi maledetti Sulioti" are the cause some of his guard to quell the disturbance. Turning to of great trouble.' Capsali replied, 'If your excellency would lend us the money to pay them, we would give s bond to repay it. We are most anxious to get rid of them, but, alas! we have no money. After some further conversation Byron agreed to lend the money; and next morning the amount of their arrears of pay was ready, duly bound up in a couple of strong canvas bags. But the poet, with his usual caution about money, previous to handing the specie over, asked, Who ought to pay this, the town or the Government?' Mavrocordato, being * Dr. Millingen, in his Memoirs on Greece, fixes t amount at 2,000 dollars. † About the middle of January, 1824. * present, replied, The Government.' Then,' said Byron, Just at the last his physicians proposed to try some why make the town give a receipt? Make out a bond as other remedies, but Byron only remarked: 'It is of no from the Government, and make it payable, in case of my use. I am going on a better road.' Capsali was in the death, to my servant Luca Calandrizano.'* Why so?' in-room adjoining that in which the poet died. All the quired Mavrocordato. Your excellency is not ill.' Byron inhabitants of Missolonghi were deeply affected at only answered sadly, 'This is a triste day for me; it is Byron's death. The town petitioned for his lungs and my birthday. To-day I enter on my thirty-seventh year, larynx, which were duly deposited in an urn expressly and it has been prophesied that I shall die at that age.' prepared by the poet for that purpose.' The urn was 'Surely,' replied Mavrocordato, 'your excellency does borne in the funeral procession by Capsali himself, and not believe in such superstition?' 'What is that to was interred within the holy precincts of St. Spiridion, t you?' retorted Byron, sharply. Make out the bond as according to the rites of the Greek Church. In the I wish.' The order was of course obeyed.t words of Capsali, 'We wished to have his lungs and "Byron's perseverance was, even in trifles, remark- larynx because he had used his breath and voice for able. At Capsali's house there was a yard, in which Greece.' After Lord Byron's death. his effects were stood posts at several feet apart. One day the poet placed sealed up, and a committee was appointed to collect and an egg on one post and a bottle on another beyond it. preserve his papers. This was done at the suggestion He vowed to break both egg and bottle at one shot. of Tita, his Venetian gondolier and most faithful attenHaving placed himself at a distance of ten paces from dant. The committee comprised S. Tricoupi, § Prince the egg, he practised for two days without success. On Mavrocordato, and an elder brother of Capsali. Byron's the third day his object was achieved, and the poet was journal was found, containing the prophetic conviction in high spirits at his triumph. Capsali was accustomed that he would die in his thirty-seventh year, the said to address Byron in Italian, to which the latter always entry having been made on the poet's last birthday."|| replied in Greek, of which language he knew but little. By this means they corrected each other, for Capsali's Italian was excessively weak, while Byron was a perfect master of that language. "The cause of Byron's death was fever caught by getting wet while out riding. Easter in 1824 fell early, and the weather was wretched, cold, and raw. One day about Easter Byron sent his horses on, outside the town gates, and went on to the lagoon in a monoxylon with Mavrocordato.§ They were caught in a squall and got wet while in the boat. In vain Mavrocordato begged Byron to return and change his clothes; the poet persisted in taking his ride. On his return he complained of cold, and laid himself on a couch wrapped in blankets. His doctor bled him a little, and wished to repeat the operation, but Byron refused it. The doctors—there were three or four**-then said that there was no hope. In consultation they declared that Lord Byron ought to have been bled,++ but as he refused the doctors said that now all the blood had gone to his head, and that recovery was impossible. They administered tonics, which were of no use. He was ill seven or eight days. Almost his last words were, 'Oh, Greece! Oh, my daughter!' So much for Capsali's narrative, which runs fairly on all fours" with those of Gamba, Millingen, Parry, and Moore. I notice a discrepancy as to the names of the physicians, which are variously spelt in various narratives. For example, Gamba calls them Luca Vaya and Dr. Treiber; Capsali, Millingen, and others call them Vaga and Freiber; but this may be only a typographical phenomenon, far more harmless than usual. In any case they were a muddling set, however named, and I always feel with Parry that they were only fit "to stand at the corners of alleys to distribute Dr. Eady's handbills." Millingen died in Turkey about three years ago, after distinguishing himself during the early part of the Russo-Turkish war by assisting the party deputed by Lady Layard to alleviate "the terrible sufferings of Turkish refugees." In my next paper I propose to furnish an account of the manner in which Palm Sunday is observed at Missolonghi. RICHARD EDGCUMBE. 33, Tedworth Square, Chelsea. * Cum grano salis. On the capitulation of Missolonghi in 1826 this church was burnt down by the Turks. Giovanni Battista Falcieri died in England January, 1875. I do not wish to take from Tita the merit of this suggestion, but am compelled to give due credit to that grand old man Edward Trelawny, who was most prompt and energetic on that occasion. § Afterwards Greek Minister at the Court of St. James's. I can answer for no such entry. Capsali probably refers to those touching verses, composed on his thirtyseventh birthday, which he handed to Col. Leicester Stanhope with so much natural pride: "This is my birthday, and I have just finished something which, I think, is better than what I usually write." If his journal contained anything more definite on the subjects of prophecy, his biographers have omitted to mention it |