It is almost needless to mention, that India received {492} its name
from the river _Indus_; and that _Indus_ and [Greek: Indos] are the
Roman and Greek forms of _Sindo_, the name it was known by among the
natives.

HENRY KERSLEY.
Corpus Christi Hall, Maidstone.

[We have received many other replies to this Query, referring
"NORTHMAN" to Robertson's _History of America_, and Humboldt's
_Aspects, &c._, vol. ii. p. 319.]


_Vox Populi Vox Dei_ (No. 20. p. 321.).--Your correspondent "QUÆSITOR"
asks for the origin of the saying _Vox populi Vox Dei_. Warwick, in his
_Spare Minutes_ (1637), says--

"That the voice of the common people is the voice of God, is the
common voice of the people; yet it is as full of falsehood as
commonnesse. The cry before Pilate's judgement-seat, 'Let him be
crucified,' was _vox populi_, 'the cry of all the people.' How
far was it the voice of God?"

M.

[Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis, in his valuable _Essay on the Influence
of Authority in Matters of Opinion_, p. 172., has some very
interesting remarks upon this proverb, which, "in its original
sense, appears to be an echo of some of the sentences in the