_ p. 52.
See Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, chap. 4, note {342} under marginal
lemma, "The memory of Commodus declared infamous."
These "tumultuary votes" are recorded, _not_ by Capitolinus, but by
AElius Lampridius, in his _Life of Commodus_. Vide _Historiae Augustae
Scriptores. AElii Lampridii Commodus Antoninus_, capita 18, 19.
Capitolinus wrote the life of his _immediate_ successor, Pertinax;
hence perhaps the mistake, "Egregio in corpore naevus!" Let those who
wish to know what passion really is, read the tiger-like yells of the
Roman senate in _Lampridius_!
C. Forbes.
Temple, Feb. 27.
_Jew's Harp_.--The late Mr. Douce always maintained that the proper
name of this instrument was the _Jaw's Harp_, and that the Jews had
no special concern with either its invention or its use.
J.H.M.
_Havior_.--The word "havior" is probably of a hybrid character; partly
of Anglo-Saxo, and partly of British origin. If so, the first syllable
is obvious enough, "half" being generally pronounced as if the liquid
were considered an evanescent quantity, "ha'f, heif, hav'," &c.
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