Chapter C: P. Ph

_The Anti-Jacobin_ (Vol. iii., p. 348.).--As you have so many articles in the _Anti-Jacobin_ owned, I may mention that No. 14, was written by Mr. Bragge, afterwards Bathurst.

When I was at Oxford, 1807 or 1808, it was supposed that the simile in _New Morality_, "So thine own Oak," was written by Mr. Pitt.

C. B.

_Mistletoe_ (Vol. iii., p. 192.).--

"In a paper of Tho. Willisel's he names these following trees on which
he found misseltoe growing, viz. oak, ash, lime-tree, elm, hazel,
willow, white beam, purging thorn, quicken-tree, apple-tree, crab-tree,
white-thorn." Vide p. 351. _Philosophical Letters between the late
learned Mr. Ray and several of his Ingenious Correspondents, &c._:
Lond. 1718, 8vo.

R. WILBRAHAM FALCONER, M.D.

Bath.

_Verbum Græcum._--The lines in Vol. i., p. 415., where this word occurs, are in a doggrel journal of his American travels, written by Moore, and published in his _Epistles, Odes, and other Poems_. They are introduced apropos to the cacophony of the names of the places which he visited.

D. X.

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"_Après moi le Déluge_" (Vol. iii, p. 299.).--This sentiment is to be found in verse of a Greek tragedian, cited in Sueton. _Nero_, c. 38.:

"[Greek: Emou thanontos gaia michthêtô puri.]"

Suetonius says that some one, at a convivial party, having quoted this line, Nero outdid him by adding, _Immo_ [Greek: emou zôntos]. Nero was not contented that the conflagration of the world should occur after his death; he wished that it should take place during his lifetime.

Dio Cassius (lviii. 23.) attributes this verse, not to Nero, but to Tiberius, who, he says, used frequently to repeat it. See Prov. (app. ii. 56.), where other allusions to this verse are cited in the note of Leutsch.

L.

[We are indebted for a similar reply to C. B., who quotes the line from
Euripides, _Fragm. Inc._ B. xxvii.]

"_Après moi_," or "_après nous le Déluge_" sounds like a modernisation of the ancient verse,--

"[Greek: Emou thanontos gaia michthêtô puri,]"

the use of which has been imputed to the emperor Nero. The spirit of Madame de Pompadour's saying breathes the same selfish levity; and it amounts to the same thing. But it merits remark that the words of Metternich were of an entirely distinct signification. They did not imply that he _cared_ only for himself and the affairs of his own life; but that he anticipated the inability of future ministers to avert revolution, and _foreboded_ the worst. Two persons may use the same words, and yet their sayings be as different as the first line of Homer from the first of Virgil. The omission of the French verb disguises the fact, that the one was said in the optative, and the other in the future indicative.

A. N.

_Eisell_, the meaning of which has been much discussed in the pages of "NOTES AND QUERIES," is a word which seems to have been once the common term for vinegar. The _Festival_ in the sermon for St. Michael's day employs this term thus:

"And other angellis with h[=i] (St. Michael) shall brynge al the
Instrum[=e]tis of our lordis passyon, the crosse; the crowne; spere;
nayles; hamer; sponge; _eyseel_; gall, scourges [=t] all other thynges
y^t w[=e] atte cristis passyon."--Rouen, A.D. 1499, _fo._ cl. b.