NOTES AND QUERIES. 19 th s. n. JULY ie, .
prseterito, quippe diminuta una syllaba.
[Reperio,] repperi."*
As renewed attempts at translation, Latin and English respectively, I would submit the following:
(a) Spes et tu Fors, longiim valete. Portum rep-
peri : nihil
Vobiscum mihi : qui me sequentur, eos, precor, dehidite.
(b) Spes et tu mihi Fors, valete longum. Portum conspicio : nihil relictum est Vobiscum mihi : ludite insequentes.
(c) Spes longum et Fortuna valete. En, hie mihi
portus. Nil mecum vobis : ludite postgenitos.
(d) Hope and thou Chance, a long adieu,
My haven found and free ! Nought now is left 'twixt me and you :
Sport with those after me. Before quitting this epitaph, I may add that the ideas embodied in it reappear in various forms in the Greek and Latin antho- logies. As thus :
(1) 'EATu'Sos ovSe Tv^ 7 ?* en p.oi fieAei, ov6"
AOITTOV T^S an-aTTjs* tj\vOov ets
No. 108 in Brunck (vol. ii. p. 429), and
Brunck by Jacobs (vol. iii. p. 136)=c. ix.
Ep. 172 in Jacobs and Paulssen (vol. ii. p. 58),
and Diibner (vol. ii. p. 34).
(2) 'EAn-is Kai o~u T^X^J A'cya ^atptre' rrjv oSov evpov'
yap ox^erepois riTe/37ro/A<u' Uppere
No. 140 in Brunck (vol. ii. p. 437), and
Brunck by Jacobs (vol. iii. p. 143) =c. ix.
Ep. 134 in Jacobs and Paulssen (vol. ii. p. 45),
and Diibner (vol. ii. p. 26).
- Thus, for example, we find renperi, in Plaiit.,
'Merc.,' iv. 3, 38 ("Nimium negoti repperi: enim- vero haereo") ; ' Mil. Glor.,' ii. 2, 71 ; ' Rud.,' iv. 2, 19, 20; 3, 87 ; 'True/ in 'Fragm.,' pars iii. extr. ; Ter., ' Haut. Tim.,' i. 1, 59 (" A'tque ibi | Simul rem et gloriam drmis belli repperi") ; ' Adelph.,' v. 4, 6, &c. Repperisti, in Plaut., ' Epid.,' v. 1, 45. Reppe- risse, in Plaut., 'Aulul.,' ii. 2, 63; Ter., 'Eun., i. 2, 124 ; v. 4, 9. The third person singular repperi< could alone appear in writers of hexameter or elegiac verse. We have it in Virgil (' Georg.,' ii. 22 " Sunt alii, quos ipse via sibi repperit usus") Propertius (ii. 33, 27, Earth = iii. 25, 27, Paley: " Al pereat quicumque meracas repperit uvas"); Ovic ('Met.,' viii. 245: " Ferroque incidit acuto | per petuos dentes, et serrse repperit usum " ; ' Pont. , ii. 2, 54 ; ' Trist ' iv. 1, 82 ; ' A. A.,' ii. 22, &c.) ; anr Ausonius ('Ep./ 22, 3; 25, 1, 3; 71, 2; 120, 3); anc among earlier writers, see Ter., ' Andr.,' iy. 5, 11 v. 6, 5, &e. ; and Aquilius, ' Bceot. ,' i. 1 (in Ribbeck' 'Scaenicse Romanorum Poesis Fragm enta': " U illiim cli perdant primus qui horas repperit "). Rep pererit occurs in Catullus, 79, 4 ; reppereris in Ovid ' A. A.,'ii. 719. Repereris, in Ter., ' Phorm.,' i. 4, 1 is not more than a conjecture, too hastily accepte by Bcntley.
The former of these passages, if not the
atter also, is attributable to Palladas the
Alexandrian.
(3) Actum est, excessi. Spes et Fortuna, valete. Nil jam plus in me vobis per secla licebit ; Quod fuerat vestrum, annsi ; quod erat meum,
hie est.
'Anthol. Latin.,' iv. 274,8=No. 1373. Meyer (Lips., 1835).
(4) Fuscus habet titulos mortis : habet tumulum. Conditus hoc lapide [est] : bene habet : Fortune
valebis. Ibid., iv. 340, 11.
^o. 1598 in Meyer, who puts the piece among
- he ' Suppositicia,' and reads in 1. 12, "Con-
- egit ossa lapis
- bene," &c.
(5) Effugi tumidam vitam. Spes, Forma valete : Nil mihi vobiscum est : alios deludite quasso. Hsec domus seterna est : hie sum situs : hie ero
semper.
Ibid., iv. 344, 13= No. 189, Meyer. And see
(6) Cura, labor, meritum, sumpti pro munere
honores, Ite, alias posthac sollicitate animas.
Ibid., ii. 228= No. 838, Meyer.
Lectores tetrici, bad said Martial (xi. 2, 7),
salebrosum ediscite Santram.
Nil mihi vobiscum est : iste liber meus est.
RICHARD HORTON SMITH. Athenaeum Club.
FEMALE TERMINATIONS.
I HAVE recently met with the following words
ending in ess and ix, which it may be of ser-
vice to record in your columns, as none of
them has as yet found a place in the 'H.E.D.'
They will all, we may hope, be calendared
there in due course. Most of them are
examples of what to avoid, but there are a
few, such as huntress, portress, and the Scot-
tish law term life-rentrix, that have become
so much a part of the language as to be
beyond reach of effective protest.
Oardeneress. "Lady gardeners in trousers are much better equipped for the work than was the first gardeneress Eve." Daily Telegraph, 23 Jan., 1896, p. 5, col. 3.
Generaless. "My service and dear affections to the general and generaless. "Oliver Cromwell, Letter, 25 Oct., 1646. In Carlyle.
Geniusess. "She was not a common woman, but a geniusess and an elegant writrix." Tho. Nugent, trans, of ' Hist, of Friar Gerund,' 1772, vol. i. p. 144.
Guardianess.Ford, ' The Fancies,' Act I. sc. ii. ; Act 11. sc. ii.
Hermitess. "She is a young creature full of grace and beauty, living in London like a hermitess and teaching her little brothers Greek." Miss Mitford (1836), quoted in Good Words, June, 1895, p. 382.
Huckstered." An enormous umbrella . . . under which the hucksteress crouched as beneath a mighty
