Edward Foss.
Silo (Vol. viii., p. 639.).—The word silo is derived from the Celtic siol, grain, and omh, a cave; siolomh, pronounced sheeloo, a "grain cave." Underground excavations have been discovered in various parts of Europe, and it is probable that they were really used for storing grain, and not for habitations, as many have supposed.
Fras. Crossley.
I have no doubt but that Mr. Strong's Query respecting silos will meet with many satisfactory answers; but in the mean time I remark that the Arab subterranean granaries, often used by the French as temporary prisons for refractory soldiers, are termed by then silos or silhos.
G. H. K.
Laurie on Finance (Vol. viii., p. 491).—
"A Treatise on Finance, under which the General Interests of the British Empire are illustrated, comprising a Project for their Improvement, together with a new scheme for liquidating the National Debt," by David Laurie, 8vo., London, 1815.
Anon.
David's Mother (Vol. viii., p. 539.).—The following comment on this point is taken from vol. i. p. 203. of the Rev. Gilbert Burrington's Arrangement of the Genealogies of the Old Testament and Apocrypha, Lond. 1836, a learned and elaborate work:
"In 2 Sam. xvii. 25., Abigail is said to be the daughter of Nahash, and sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother; but in 1 Chron. ii. 16., both Zeruiah and Abigail are said to be the daughters of Jesse; we must conclude, therefore, with Cappell, either that the name נחשׁ, Nahash, in 2 Sam. xvii. 25., is a corruption of ישי, Jesse, which is the reading of the Aldine and Complutensian Editions, and of a considerable number of MSS. of the LXX in this place or that Jesse had two names, as Jonathan in his Targum on Ruth iv. 22. informs us; or that Nahash is not the name of the father, but of the mother of Abigail, as Tremellius and Junius imagine; or, lastly, with Grotius, we must be compelled to suppose that Abigail, mentioned as the sister of Zeruiah in 2 Sam., was a different person from Abigail the sister of Zeruiah, mentioned in 1 Chron., which appears most improbable."