yet," I think that he wanders a little from the point when he says, "the
surmise of the plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms
employed by the Latin author, especially _corcillum_." Now the question,
in my opinion, turns not so much on what _Petronius said_, as on what
_Pope read_; i.e. not on the meaning that _Petronius gave_ to the word
(_corcillum_), but on that which _Pope attributed_ to it. I cannot,
without further proof, give him credit for having read the words as
critically and correctly as "Mr. R." has done. I believe that he looked
on it merely as a simple derivative of _cor_, and therefore rendered it
"worth," i.e. a _moral_, not a _mental_ quality.

C. FORBES.

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QUERIES.

QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN
SACRAMENTS.

I beg leave to make the two following Queries:--

1. In Bayle's very useful work, _Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanniæ
Catalogus_, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey,
one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as Walden styles him) _Glossator_, is
mentioned _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi
diceret;" and Bayle adds:--

"Prædictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi