—If some one of your learned correspondents could point out any other references to the useful accomplishment of sword swallowing, the information would confer a favour on me. The reference to which I allude is about the date of B.C. 326, and is, unless my memorandum be inaccurate, Plu. Lycur. c. 19, and runs thus:
"Ἄγις μὲν οὖν ὁ βασιλεὺς, σκώπτοντος Ἀττικοῦ τινὸς,
τὰς Λακωνικὰς μαχαίρας εἰς τὴν μικρότητα καὶ λέγοντος,
ὅτι ῥᾳδίως αὐτὰς οἱ θαυματοποιοὶ καταπίνουσιν ἐν τοῖς
θεάτροις, Καὶ μὴν μάλιστα, εἶπεν, ἡμεῖς ἐφικνούμεθα τοῖς
ἐγχειριδίοις τῶν πολεμίων."
ÆGROTUS.
Livy quoted by Grotius.
—Grotius, in his Commentary on Matt. v. 13., gives as a parallel passage to "τὸ ἅλις τῆς γῆς," the following quotation from Livy: "Græcia sal gentium." Can any of your correspondents inform me where in Livy this passage occurs?
T. K. R.
Eleanor, Lady of the Ring.
—In a family pedigree I find—
"Eleanor, lady of the ringe, daughter and heir of Thomas Ddu, married John, first cousin of William Herbert, first earl of Pembroke."
What is the meaning of the sobriquet "Lady of the ringe?"