tance. When
the Phoenician Homeritae had discovered the Mediterranean, &c.--they
sent out vessels to explore it, _e_, 'it,' _u_, 'from,' _ro_, 'to
go,' _ba_, 'was,' _tur_, 'voyage,' _ros_, 'to the promontory;' I. E.
_it was to go from a voyage to (Italy) the promontory_. This was, as
usual of the Greeks taking sound for sense, made into a _lady_ and a
_bull_--_tur ros_ must be the Greek [Greek: tauros], and the Lady
Europa was to ride the bull to Crete, which was one of the first
discoveries and settlements. Of the _children or results_, Minos has
been already explained as _mian_, 'minis,' nos, 'knowledge,' or 'the
art of mining.' Rhadamanthus means nothing more than that the voyage
to Crete was the first great result of discoveries on this sea: _ra_,
'going,' _ad_, 'illustrious,' _am_, 'great sea,' _en_, 'the,' _tus_,
'first.' So simple is the explanation!--(Vol. ii. p. 244.)

Scrieck had some remains of the modesty of learning, which prevent his
becoming a complete master of this style. The Peloponnesus might perhaps
possibly, he owned, have been derived from Pelops; though 'twas more
likely it should come from _Pfel-op-on_, &c. &c. That admission was
ill-judged: he ought to have denied that Pelops ever existed, and laughed
at the blundering Greeks. But the Irishman is a deacon of his craft, and
settles the point like an adept. "PELOPONNESUS, according to the Greek,
the island of Pelops. But the name was of much greater antiquity than
Greek civilization, and was, like all others, given by the Phoenicians.
Pelops was an imaginary character. The meaning of the word is, _the
promontory of the courteous people_; _bel_, 'mouth,' _aiobh_, 'courteous,'
_a_, 'the', _neas_, 'promontory,' _aos_, 'community, race of
people.'"--(Vol. ii. p. 254.)

When Partridge, the almanack-maker, had overlived the fatal day assigned
for his decease by Bickerstaff, he intimated as much to his friends and
the public, assuring them that he was not only then alive, but had also
been alive on the very 29th March, when the wise astrologer had foretold
he should die.

"Now," says Bickerstaff in reply, "I will plainly prove him to be
dead out of his own almanack for this year, and from the very passage
which he produceth to make us think him alive. He says, _he is not
only now alive, but was alive upon that very 29th of March which I
foretold he should die on_;