Bristol, June 2, 1851.
The Tanthony (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 229. 308.).
—ARUN's Query is fully answered by a reference to Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art, vol. ii. p. 379., where the bell is shown to be emblematic of the saint's power to exorcise evil spirits, and reference is made to several paintings (and an engraving given of one) in which it is represented. The phrase "A Tantony Pig" is also explained, for which see further Halliwell's Dict. of Arch. and Prov. Words, s.v. Anthony.
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Essay on the Irony of Sophocles, &c. (Vol. iii., p. 389.).
—Three Queries by NEMO: 1. The Rev. Connop Thirlwall, now Bishop of St. David's, is the author of the essay in question. 2. Cicero, Tusc. Disp., i. 15. 39.:—Errare mehercule malo cum Platone ... quam cum istis vera sentire; (again), Cicero, ad Attic., l. viii. ep. 7.:—Malle, quod dixerim, me cum Pompeio vinci, quam cum istis vincere. 3. The remark is Aristotle's; but the same had been said of Homer by Plato himself:
"Aristot. [Eth. Nicom. l. i. cap. 6. § 1. ed. Oxon.] is reluctant to criticise Plato's doctrine of Ideas, διὰ τὸ φίλους ἄνδρας εἰσαγάγειν τὰ εἴδη: but, he adds, the truth must nevertheless be spoken:—ἀμφοῖν γὰρ ὄντοιν φίλοιν, ὅσιον προτιμᾶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν.
"Plato [de Repub., X. cap. 1. p. 595 b.]:—Φιλία τίς με καὶ αἰδὼς ἐκ παιδὸς ἔχουσα περὶ Ὁμήρου ἀποκωλύει λέγειν ... ἀλλ' οὐ γὰρ πρό γε τῆς ἀλήθειας τιμητέος ἄνηρ."
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