[We have received a similar replay, with the addition of a
reference to Plutarch (Julius Cæsar, cap. 10.), from several
other kind correspondents.]


_Nomade_ (No. 21. p. 342.).--There can be no doubt at all that the
word "nomades" is Greek, and means pastoral nations. It is so used
in Herodotus more than once, derived from [Greek: nomos], pasture:
[Greek: nem_o], to graze, is generally supposed to be the derivation
of the name of Numidians.

C.B.


_Gray's Elegy_.--In reply to the Query of your correspondent "J.F.M."
(No. 7. p. 101.), as well as in allusion to remarks made by others
among your readers in the following numbers on the subject of Gray's
_Elegy_, I beg to state that, in addition to the versions in foreign
languages of this fine composition therein enumerated, there is one
printed among the poem, original and translated, by C.A. Wheelwright,
B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, published by Longman & Co. 1811.
(2d. edition, 1812.) If I mistake not, the three beautiful stanzas,
given by Mason in his notes to Gray, viz. those beginning,--

"The thoughtless world to majesty may bow,"
"Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around,"
"Him have we seen," &c.

(the last of which is so remarkable for its Doric simplicity, as well
as being essential to mark the concluding period of the contemplative