J. D.
[In The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Lane's edition, chap. v. vol. i. p. 410. Consult also The Barmecides, 1778, by John Francis de la Harpe; and Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique, art. Barmécides.]
Captain.—I shall feel greatly obliged by your informing me the proper and customary manner of rendering in a Latin epitaph the words "Captain of the 29th Regiment." Ainsworth does not give any word which appears to answer to "Captain." Ordinum ductor is cumbrous and inelegant.
Clericus.
[The words, "Captain of the 29th Regiment," may be thus rendered into Latin: "Centurio sive Capitanus vicesimæ nonæ cohortis." The word capitanus, though not Ciceronian, was in general use for a military captain during the Middle Ages, as appears from Du Cange's Glossary: "Item vos armati et congregati quendam de vobis in capitaneum elegistis.">[
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COLERIDGE'S UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS.
(Vol. ix., p. 496.)
In an article contained in the Number of "N. & Q." for May the 27th last, and signed C. Mansfield Ingleby, an inconsiderate, not to say a coarse attack has been made upon me, which might have been spared had the writer sought a private explanation of the matters upon which he has founded his charge.