AгAAOƐ, a, o, splendid, λaugos-splendid water, bright, clear— splendid gifts, rich, costly. Il. a. 23.-splendid children, illustrious noble. B. 871.-splendid hair, comely, delicate. Pyth. 4. 146. beautiful-splendid trees, tall, majestic. Olym. 2. 133.-splendid man, renowned, glorious, avdeos."

aros, n, or, ayons, es, Eos, chaste-chaste feast, holy-chaste grove, sacred-chaste in mind, undefiled, unpolluted, Orest. 1640-chaste in conduct or character, pure, blameless, 1 Peter, 3. 2. ayvotatαι пnya, the purest water. Pyth. 1. 41.'

• Βαλλω, aor. 2. εβάλον-Βαλέω, f. Βαλεσω, by sinc. Βαλ, f. m. Βαλουμαι —Bλew, f. Banow. f. 1. pass. Bandnoopas, aor. 1. Sandy, I throw, hit, smite, Il. a. 53.-throw around, scatter-throw to another, give, deliver, throw a net, cast, fling-throw in money, deposit-throw in water, pour-throw a sickle, put forth, Rev. 14. 16.—throw in seed, sow-put forth leaves, shoot, germinate, Theo. on Plants, 9. 22throw on a couch, lay, Matt. 8. 6-throw out of doors, reject, loose. BECλnxws, John, 13. 2, having fixed himself, having formed a settled purpose-strike a bargain, make, form, II. . 10. Baro, he put on himself, B. 4. 43. Baλora, they fix in themselves, Il. §. 50. Bæλλσfor Caro, he threw, Herod. 9. 74. Baλλoμeros, casting a thing with myself, conferring, meditating. Herod. 5. 106.'

BIA, as, Ion. Bin, ns, n, strength, vigour-violence, force-majesty, Il. o. 117.-Bin, in his strength-disinclination, opp. to xv. Bia Ins μngos, against the will, in spite of, the mother-injustice, opp. to dixn. Bia, powers of life, energies. Il. x. 219.

Blaw, f. now, p. Bebinxa-Biazw. f. dow, I force, use force, make an effort,-violate-enslave-overcome, overwhelm, Il. 4. 576.-outrage, plunder-Baqua, Bialoμai, I am forced, suffer violence-I force myself-force a city or passage-compel-attack.- Baro, for Biato, Il. a. 467. they would overwhelm him-BiaσTroy, must struggle against, Rhesus, 584.

Biaoμos, ov, ô, compulsion.

Biaσrns, ou, o, a person who compels or violates.

violent, Mat. 11. 12.

Biora, the

• Biaotixos, n, ov, given to violence, having a power to compel, Plut. 9.507.

♦ Biāτns, ou, o, furious, Pyth. 1. 18.

Biasos, a, ov, violent, outrageous, rapacious-Bas, adv. violently, through main force, with violence, forcibly.

• Biαorns, ntos, n, violence.

• Βιαιοθαναταω, f. I suffer a violent death, Plut. 10. 737.

ησω,

Βιαιοκλωψ, ωπος, ,, stolen, or extorted by violence, Lyc. 547. "Biasoμans, or Binμaxos, ou, a brave combatant, Leon. Tar. 23. "Biasoμaxew, I fight strenuously, or with fury.'

Βιαιομαχεω,

We must notice some errors and omissions which have occurred to us in our examination of this Lexicon. We are most dissatisfied with Dr. Jones's interpretations of some passages. of the New Testament, on which he professes to cast a new light, and in respect to which he has, we think, not sufficiently

distinguished between the explanations of words requisite in the work of a Lexicographer, and the expository remarks of a Commentator. In a Lexicon expressly accommodated to the New Testament, an author may be permitted to advance such observations as may seem to him necessary or proper for the elucidation of its several obscurities; but, in a general Lexicon of the Greek language, critical remarks are scarcely admissible. The quality of some of Dr. Jones's explanations of words occurring in the New Testament, will not, we apprehend, be very highly appreciated by intelligent and sober readers. Under avaraσow we have I new model, forge, or falsify the Gospel, Luke i. 1. Such meaning, we are persuaded, does not belong to the word. There is evidently nothing in the expression used by the Evangelist Luke, which can fix the charge of dishonest intention upon the writers whose productions preceded his own Gospel. Under aι, we have

a, Ephes. 2. 2, the eternal ideas of God, which he used as patterns in the creation of all sensible things, and to which all things will perfectly conform in the end. τα τέλη των αιώνων, 1 Cor. 10. 11, the completions of the eternal models, i. e. the events which fulfil or realise the patterns of things in the divine mind.'

In the former of these passages, we find only the singular , which does not admit the application of the Platonic doctrine of ideas for the purpose of its elucidation; and the other passage is sufficiently intelligible without supposing a meaning to be intended of a character so recondite as that which is given in the preceding extract. In the examples of Exaλropas quoted from the New Testament under exaλw, we find the senses, assume the name of, call myself, am surnamed, appeal to, assume the name of a master; while to call upon, to invoke, is not given as a meaning, though in several passages such is the clear import of the expression. The compound Johoyos is properly explained, one who speaks about God ;' yet, this correct definition is immediately followed by the remark, that' John 'the Evangelist was called oxoyos, because he alone speaks of 'the Logos.' But, if the reason of the definition be found in the terms of which the word is compounded, we should have Ayokoyos, for one who speaks of the Logos; unless we say that the name onyos was given to John, because, in writing or speaking concerning the Logos, he was considered as writing or speaking of the Logos as being God, which is the reason of the name assigned by the ancient Christian writers. Jokoyos

* See Eclectic Rev. Vol. XIX. p. 506. N.S.

never can be defined from its own construction, one who speaks of the Logos.'

axoxos, one of the same bed (col. 1.) is not from a and gov but from and λexos—agern, goodness of land, fertility, may be added to the meanings given to this word.-argov is improperly explained as denoting the eyelids, Pyth. 1. 15: in this passage of Pindar, the term retains its customary sense of claustrum, and is applied to sleep which closes the eyelids. paλaxos does not signify empurpled.-λas, axos, a tablet, is a feminine noun.-gouos; to this word the meaning turbo, eddying wind, whirlwind, should be added. Some words which should have found a place in the Lexicon are omitted ; as αυτοσχεδιασμα, an unpremeditated essay. Arist. Poet. 4.-oxμow, I introduce innovations. We shall only select two more passages from the work before us: the first appears to us to be more fanciful than probable in its illustration, and the second, we think, is› altogether erroneous.

EXTλdgos, or, beyond the plethrum, exorbitant, immense, E. Elect. 883. The unexpected return of Orestes is compared to a comet which unexpectedly returns after being apparently lost in boundless space. The emendation of ixrgos, proposed by Tyrwhitt, and praised by Maltby, is therefore inadmissible, as destructive of the finest allusion in the language.'

We perceive no ground for the comparison which Dr. Jones finds in the passage of Euripides, Elect. 883. The return of Orestes was not unexpected by Electra, who had been prepared by the relation of his success against Egystus given by a messenger, to expect his joyful arrival. The allusion seems very plainly to be to the case of a victor in the games.

os, a place thronged, a populous country. Exudny s oμy, into the Scythian land, land peopled with Scythians, in contradistinction to Egna, that part of Scythia that was not marked with human footsteps. Prom. 2

There is clearly no opposition intended by the poet, between Σκύθην οιμον and αβροτον (or αβατον) ερημια»; the latter being evidently in explanation of the former expression-Scythian way, desert way, unfrequented way. The nouns are descriptive of the same place, and the whole description shews that the oos was the scene of the transactions; it could not, therefore, be populous. In the Anthologia we have ουρανίη δ' ιμος ἔτ ̓ ἔστ ̓ ἄβατος, where popu lous is out of the question.

We need not use any more words to characterise the volume before us, or to express our opinion of its merits and its claims to public patronage. With all the deductions which our re

marks on its erroneous etymology may be supposed to include, this" Greek and English Lexicon" is a highly respectable and useful work. We should add, that, as the Author's system dispenses with the accents, he has omitted them, with the exception of the circumflex, which he retains.

Art. III. The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton. By George Baker. Part I. Spelho Hundred, Newbottle Grove Hundred, and Fawsley Hundred. Folio. pp. 274. Large paper, 61. 6s; small paper, 31. 3s, each Part. London, 1822. THERE are but few departments of literary employment, which can so justly support an author's use of the language quoted in Mr. Baker's title-page- What toyle hath been taken, as no man thinketh, so no man believeth, but he 'that hath made the triall,'-as the compilation of a County History. The collecting of materials for such a work, the collation of authorities, the verification of references, the adjustment of dubious and conflicting evidence, in topography, in civil and ecclesiastical details, in genealogies, in architectural antiquities, and in the numerous other objects which a work of this kind comprises, require, not only great patience, but habits of acute perception and of correct and comprehensive discrimination. In these indispensable requisites, and in every other appropriate qualification of a County Historian, Mr. Baker is entitled to great commendation: and the manner in which he has executed the present portion of his undertaking, will, we cannot doubt, not only gratify his patrons, and secure their confidence in respect to his future exertions, but procure him an honourable rank among the writers of his own class.

Reserving for the concluding portion of his work a general view of the various public and private sources of information. to which he has been indebted, the Author briefly sketches in the preface to the present part, an outline of his plan, from which we quote the following paragraphs.

On the present state of a parish, whether open or enclosed, its extent, principal proprietors, boundaries, soil, and all other points of local information, he has been guided by, and spared no assiduity in procuring the best resident authorities,

In the deduction of manorial property-one of the most important branches of county history-he has studied to combine perspicuity with brevity. Many parishes were originally composed of different fees, and much confusion and error have arisen from the paramount and mesne interests being blended together in the same narrative. He has endeavoured, therefore, to keep them perfectly distinct, and has pursued each fee separately in succession from domesday to the

present time; or till merging in others it ceased to be necessary: or being alienated in parcels it ceased to be practicable. The heading prefixed serves not only as an index to the domesday lord, but to the intermediate seignories which grew out of successive subinfeudations. Though the paramouncy lost its beneficial value on the abolition of the feudal system, and, of the numerous privileges of the superior lord, scarcely any now remain beyond the barren suit and service of a court leet; yet to the county historian its descent is still of the utmost importance, as the tenure frequently furnishes a correct, and indeed the only clue, to the appropriation of the different co-existent manors in a parish. The information exclusively derived from his predecessor Bridges he has copied verbatim, and, deprecating invidious comparison, or the imputation of controversy, he has silently corrected evident inaccuracies, and unless allusion was imperiously required has abstained from noticing the opposite conclusions to which they have sometimes been led on points open to difference of opinion. The places selected for the genealogical accounts of the principal families are printed in capitals, and referred to only in treating of their other possessions, whereby useless repetitions are avoided, and considerable space will be saved in the progress of the work.

His restricted limits have not permitted him to attempt more than satisfactorily to trace a manor into and out of a family; nor perhaps is it to be regretted, for the line of blood through which it descended, especially if combined with the collateral ramifications, may be exhibited more clearly in a genealogical table, than by verbal narrative, and the technical references to the escheats or inquisitions post mortem, introduced to verify the descents, remove in a great measure the necessity for abstracting them. The pedigrees have relieved the text also from the dry details of dates, matrimonial alliances, and honourable appointments. The leading authorities are placed at the head of each, but the author has taken nothing on trust which he had the means of subjecting to the test of public or private documents. Numerous as the pedigrees will be found, none unconnected with manorial property have been admitted, or the number might easily have been augmented, to an almost indefinite extent, from heraldic visitations, and families of respectability possessed of impropriations, advowsons, and other estates.

The monastic establishments, and possessions of the religious houses, follow the manorial history; for, though ecclesiastical in their origin, yet having been converted into lay property by the dissolution, this seemed the most natural arrangement.

The history of a parochial benefice, naturally suggests three divisions:-by whom founded, and to whom the patronage belongs; of what it consists; and by whom held. Where the impropriate rectory and advowson of a vicarage have been severed, the descent of each is separately deduced from the crown grantee, or the period of separation. Their ancient and modern state are also distinctly treated.

The series of Incumbents down to the middle of the sixteenth century is with occasional additions-copied from Bridges, on the authority of the Lincoln registers; and continued to the present time