osetum, a [Greek: rhodon] (also the nouns [Greek: ankoon,
agoon, akremoon, bonboon, paioon, ploutoon, poogoon, chitoon]).--Nempe
formata videntur haec nomina in [Greek: oon], a genitivis pluralibus
substantivorum. Genitivus singularis horum nominum, in [Greek: oonos],
contractione sua, hanc originem satis videtur demonstrare."

In immediate reference to the word [Greek: Aioon], they say:

"[Greek: Aioon], Aevum, Aeternitas. Nomen ex eo genere, quod natura sua
_collectionem_ et _multitudinem_ rerum notat; ut patet ex terminatione
[Greek: oon]. Quemadmodum in voce [Greek: aei], vidimus eam esse
translatam eximie ad significationem _temporis_, ab illa flandi,
spirandive, quae est in origine [Greek: aoo]; sic in nostro [Greek:
Aioon] eadem translationis ratio locum habet; ut adeo quasi _temporum
collectionem_, vel _multitudinem_ significet. A qua denuo
significatione propria profectae sunt eae, quibus vel _aevum_, vel
_aeternitatem_, vel _hominis aetatem_ descripsere veteres. Formata
(vox) est a nomine inusitato [Greek: Aios], vel [Greek: Aios], quod ab
[Greek: ais], cujus naturam, in voce [Greek: aei], expossi. Caeterum, a
Graeco nostro [Greek: Aioon], interposito digammate Aeolico, ortum, est
[Greek: Aiwoon], et hinc Lat. aevum."

As then it is impossible to place [Greek: Aioon], whose genitive is [Greek:
Aioonos], in the same category with the derivatives from [Greek: oon], the
participle present of [Greek: Eimi], whose genitive is [Greek: ontos]; and
as, secondly, this derivation places the word out of the range of the
collective nouns so declined, which are derived from other nouns, as this
appears to be, can the real etymology of the word [Greek: Aioon], and its
derivatives, remain any longer a matter of question and debate?

C. H. P.

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WILLIAM LYON, BISHOP OF CORK, CLOYNE, AND ROSS.

It is very generally believed that Dr. William Lyon (not Lyons, as he is
sometimes called) was originally in the navy; that having distinguished
himself in several actions against the Spaniards, he was promised by Queen
Elizabeth the first crown appointment that should be vacant; and that this
happening to be the see of Cork, he was appointed to it. This is mentioned
in other works as well as in Mr. Crofton Croker's very agreeable
_Researches in the South of Ireland_, p. 248.; and I have more than once
heard it given as a re