Winchester School--Benedicite--The Church
History Society--Pope Ganganelli--Sir George
Downing--Solemnization of Matrimony--Passage
in Bishop Butler--The Duke of Wharton's Poetical
Works--Titus Oates--Translations of Erasmus'
Colloquies and Apuleius' Golden Ass, &c. 463

REPLIES:--
Holme MSS.--The Cradocks 465
Antiquity of Smoking 465
Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus Mundi 466
Albemarle, Title of, by Lord Braybrooke 466
Replies to Minor Queries:--Cromwell Poisoned--"Never
did Cardinal bring Good to England"--Gloves
not worn in the Presence of Royalty--Nonjurors'
Oratories in London--"Filthy Gingran"--Michael
Scott--The Widow of the Wood--Modum
Promissionis--End of Easter--First Earl of Roscommon--Dryden's
"Absolom and Achitophel"--Cabalistic
Author--Becket--Aerostation--Kilt--Bacon
Family, &c. 467

Miscellaneous:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 470
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 470
Notices to Correspondents 470

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NOTES.

FURTHER NOTES ON THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

The following remarks are supplementary to a note on the hippopotamus in
Vol. ii, p. 35. In that note the exhibition of the hippopotamus at the
Roman games is not traced lower than the time of the Emperor Commodus.
Helagabalus, however, 218-22 A.D., had hippopotami among the various rare
animals which he displayed in public as a part of his state. (Lamprid. c.
28) A hippopotamus was likewise in the vast collection of animals which
were prepared for the Persian triumph of Gordian III., but were exhibited
at the secular games celebrated by the Emperor Philip in the 1000th year of
Rome, 248 A.D. (_Capitol. in Gordian. Tert_., c. 33.) In the seventh
eclogue of Calpurnius, a countryman describes the animals which he saw in
the Roman amphitheatre, among which is the hippopotamus:

"Non solum nobis silvestria cernere monstra
Contigit; aequoreos ego cum certantibus ursis
Spectavi vitulos, et equorum nomine dignum,
Sed deforme genus, quod in illo nascitur amni
Qui sata riparum venientibus irrigat undis."
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