A RATCATCHER.
Anonymous Ravennas (Vol. i., p. 124.).
— W. C.'s Query has not received much elucidation as yet; as a small contribution, I may remark that the Benedictine Dom. Porcheron brought the MS. to light, and published it at Paris, 1686, 8vo., under the title, Anonymi Ravennatis, qui circa sæculum septimum vixit, de Geographiâ libri quinque, with a dedication to the Duc de Bourbon, son of the great Condé. My authority is, the Correspondence inédite de Mabillon et de Montfaucon avec l'Italie, par M. Valéry, Paris, 1846, vol. ii. pp. 2, 3, 5.
"Paucis abhinc diebus prodiit ab uno e nostris erutus in lucem Anonymus Ravennas, qui ante annos circiter mille de Geographia scripsit libros quinque. [Michel Germain à Gattola, Dec. 31. 1686.] Je vous destine un volume in 8vo. que notre cher Dom. Placide Porcheron vient de donner au public, c'est un Anonyme de Ravenne, Goth ou Grec de naissance, qui vivait il y a mille ans ... [the same, to Magliabechi, Jan. 10. 1687.]"
The editor gives the date 1688, and the form 4to., for this book; the date is evidently a misprint.
C. P. PH***.
The Lion, a Symbol of the Resurrection (Vol. i., pp. 385. 472.).
—As JARLTZBERG has not replied to MR. EASTWOOD'S Query, permit me to refer the latter to Sacred Latin Poetry Selected, by R. C. Trench, London, 1849, pp. 67. 152. 153.:
"The Middle-Age legend, that the lion's whelps were born dead and first roused to life on the third day by the roar of their sire, was often alluded to in connexion with, and as a natural type of the Resurrection. Adam de S. Victore (De SS. Evangelistis, verse 25.):
"'Est leonis rugientis