"Je vous ai envoyé ma signature, dans laquelle j'ai oublié le nom d'Arouet, que j'oublie assez volontiers."
"Je vous renvoie d'autres parchemins, où se trouve ce nom, malgré le peu de cas que j'en fais."
Mixing with the higher classes of society, he wished, like them, to be known by a territorial possession, and framed the name now resounding through the world, prefixing to it the nobiliary particle, _De_. His elder brother was named Armond, whose death preceded that of the younger by thirty-seven years, 1741-1778; both were unmarried. Numerous, and curious too, are the anagrams which my memory could furnish me.
_Sinaïtic Inscriptions_ (Vol. iv., p. 382.).--The decipherer of these inscriptions was the late Professor Beer of Berlin. T. D. will find his alphabet, together with that of the Himyaritic inscriptions, and others which resemble them, in Dr. (John) Wilson's _Lands of the Bible_.
_Le Greene at Wrexham_ (Vol. iv., p. 371.).--A survey of the lordships of Bromfield and Yale (within the former of which this town is situated), made by Norden about the year 1620 for Charles I., then Prince of Wales, has been preserved in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum. The descriptive part is in Latin; but before the names of the places and streets in this town the French article _le_ is used, as Le highe street, Le hope street, Le church street, Le beast market, Le greene. The larger part of this Le greene (now called "The Green") has still grass growing upon it; and there is no tradition that either a granary or corn-mill was ever situated there.
_Cross-legged Effigies_ (Vol. iv., p. 382.).--In the parish church of Limington, Somerset, is a figure of a cross-legged knight, with his hand on the hilt of his sword, as if about to draw it. The date of the foundation of the chantry in which he lies is said to be 1329, and the mouldings and windows appear to testify its correctness.
_The Word á¼Î´ÎµÎ»ÏὸÏ_ (Vol. iv., p. 339.).--Your correspondent, the Rev. T. R. BROWN, is right in acquiescing in the ordinary derivation of á¼Î´ÎµÎ»Ïá½¸Ï from á¼ and δέλÏÏ Ï, but wrong, as I think, in endeavouring to find cognate forms in the Indo-Germanic languages. The fact is, that the word is solely and peculiarly Greek. The Sanscrit word for brother is, as every body knows, _bhratri_ (Latin, _frater_, &c.); and that this form was not entirely unknown to the Hellenic races, is evidenced by their use of ÏÏá½±ÏÏα, or ÏÏá½±ÏÏη, in various senses, all of which may easily be reduced to the one common idea of brotherhood. How it happened that the word ÏÏαÏá½´Ï was lost in Greek, and á¼Î´ÎµÎ»Ïá½¸Ï substituted, we think we can satisfactorily explain, and, if so, the elucidation will make clearer an interesting point in Greek manners. It appears that they, in common with some Eastern nations, looked upon the relationship between brothers of the same mother as much closer in blood than that in which the brothers were related through the father alone; and hence the well-known law forbidding á¼Î´ÎµÎ»Ïοὶ á½Î¼Î¿Î¼Î·ÏÏίοι _alone_ to marry. In the same manner we find Abraham (Gen. xx. 12.) using a similar excuse for marrying Sarah: