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Urbanus Regius (No. 23. p. 367.).—The "delightful old lady" is informed that "Urbanus Regius" (or Urban le Roi) was one of the reformers, a native of Langenargen, in Germany. His works were published under the title of Vitet et Opera Urbani Regii, &c., Norib. 1562. His theological works have been translated into English, as the lady is aware.
W. FRANKS MATHEWS.
Kidderminster, April 7. 1850.
Horns (No. 24. p. 383.).—Rosenmüller ad Exodum xxxiv. 29.
"Ignorabat quods plenderet entis faciei ejus. Vulgatus interpres reddidit. Ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua, quia verbum Karan denominativum nominis Keren, cornu; opinatus est denotare, cornua habere; hine nata opinio, Mosis faciem fuisse cornutam. Sed nomen [Hebrew: keren] ob similitudinem et ad radios transferri, docet Haliæ, m. 4. ubi de fulminibus dicitur.... Hic denotat emisit radias, i.e. splenduit." LXX. [Greek: dedoxastai]. Our version, shone.
R. ad Psal. xxii. seems to say, that in Arabic there is the like metaphor, of the sun's rays to a deer's horns. R. adds, that the Jews also attributed horns to Moses in another sense, figuratively for power, as elsewhere.
Tauriformis.—The old scholiasts on Horace say that rivers are always represented with horns, "propter impetum et mugitum æquarum."
"Corniger Hesperidum fluvius."
An old modern commentator observes, that in Virgil "Rhenus bicornis," rather applies to its two æstuaries.