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the custom throughout Japan to apply the ape's figure to any toothpick dealer's sign, which practice has now fallen into utter desuetude. The unusual whiteness of the ape's tooth is said to have occasioned this usage. Kumagusu Minakata.
Pictures of the Deity in Churches (11 S. vii. 450).—The "great divine" was Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis in Cyprus in the latter half of the fourth century. The incident is often referred to. See, for example, Jeremy Taylor's 'Ductor Dubitantium,' vol. ix., in Eden's edition, p. 445, "Epiphanius did rend in pieces the veil at Anablatha near Bethlehem, because it had in it the picture of a man."
The authority is a letter of Epiphanius to John, Bishop of Jerusalem, a Latin version of which is to be found in St. Jerome. Bishop Jewel quotes from it in his 'Defence of the Apology of the Church of England,' and translates as follows:—
"I found there a veil hanging at the entry of the church, stained and painted, and having the image, as it were, of Christ or of some saint: for whose picture it was, indeed I do not remember. Therefore, when I saw the image of a man to hang in the church of Christ, contrary to the commandment of the scriptures, I tare it in sunder, and gave counsel to the wardens of that church, that they should wind and bury some poor body in it."—Part iv. pp. 793-4, in the Parker Society's edition of Jewel's works.
John Ayre, the editor, adds a reference to the Benedictine ed. of Jerome (Paris, 1693-1706), tom. iv. pars ii. cols. 828-9, Epist. ex.
Cardinal Newman's Epitaph (11 S. vii. 449).—In King's 'Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 3rd ed., No. 749, these words are ascribed to Newman himself. In any case the expression seems to have been suggested "by Cicero, 'De Officiis,' iii. 17, 69,
"Sed nos veri iuris germanaeque iustitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus, umbra et imaginibus utimur. Eas ipsas utinam sequeremur! Feruntur enim ex optimis naturae et veritatis exemplis."
The passage is quoted by Lactantius, 'Institutions, ' lib. vi. ('De Vero Cultu '), cap. vi. 25.
Newman, it may be remembered, described Cicero as "the greatest master of composition the world has ever seen." See his article in the 'Encyclopædia Metropolitana.' reprinted in the ' History of Roman Literature,' edited by H. L. Thompson. Newman writes there of the 'De Officiis,' "Of a work so extensively celebrated, it is enough to have mentioned the name." Edward Bensly.
"He" in Game of "Touch" (11 S. vii. 449).—"He" who runs after and touches in this game is probably the Devil. In Lincolnshire a variant of this game is called "Horney"; the pursuer catches, and, with strokes on the back of the captured boy, calls, "Horney, Horney, Horney!" This is a common name for the Devil, as when Burns addresses the "De'il":—
Oh, Thou! whatever title suit thee.
Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick or Cloutie!
In the game called "Ticky, ticky, touch wood," the children shout to the pursuer, "Daddy! Daddy! I don't touch wood!" Daddy is no doubt the Devil.
But see some suggestions in 'Notes from a Knapsack,' p. 257, by
"Quo Vadis?" (11 S. vii. 448, 497.)—The story given at the last reference may also be read in Father P. J. Chandlery's (S.J.) 'Pilgrim Walks in Rome' at pp. 234-5.
Hare, in his 'Walks in Rome,' remarks that Michelangelo's famous statue in the church of S. Maria sopra Minerva is supposed to represent Christ as He appeared on this occasion, which also forms the subject of one of the ancient tapestries in the Cathedral of Anagni. He adds:
"Beyond the church is a second 'Biviuni' or cross-ways, where a lane on the left leads up the Valle Caffarelle. Here, feeling an uncertainty which was the crossing where our Saviour appeared to S. Peter, the English Cardinal Pole erected a second tiny chapel of 'Domine quo vadis,' which remains to this day."
It may interest some of those who are writing to 'N. & Q.' on this subject to learn that a version in noble heroics of the tradition regarding St. Peter finds a place, under the title of 'Domine, Quo Vadis? A Legend of the Early Church,' in Mr. William Watson's 'Odes and other Poems' (1894). John Hogben.
"To banyan" (11 S. vii. 290, 337).—The following may be worth recording. A labouring man, who worked for many years on the Warwickshire roads, and died at the age of 70 in Alcester Workhouse on 30 Dec., 1910, was given to occasional drinking bouts. When asked to account for his absence from work, after one of these periodical defections, he answered, "Well, master, if I be to tell you the truth, me and So-and-so had a ban-ny-an-da" = banyanda(y). A. C. C.
