_Greek Inscription on a Font_ (Vol. viii., p. 198.).---This Query has
already been answered and illustrated in Vol. vii., pp. 178. 366. 417.; but
the following passage may be of interest, as affording instances of the
same inscription in France, and pointing out the probable source of its
usage, viz. from the ancient Greek metropolitan church at Constantinople:
"St. Memin est une abbaye celebre sous l'ancien nom de Micy, sur la
riviere de Loire, proche d'Orleans. Il y a dans l'eglise de ce
monastere un benetier de forme ronde, avec cette inscription grecque
gravee sur le bord du bassin, [GREEK: NIPSON ANOMEMA MEMONAN OPSIN]. La
meme chose est a Paris, au benetier de St. Etienne d'Egres, et aussi
autrefois a celui de Sainte Sophie a Constantinople."--_Voyages
liturgiques de France, par le Sieur Moleon_, p. 219., 8vo. 1718.
It may be added (on Cole's authority, vol. XXXV. f. 19b.) that the same
inscription is inscribed round a large silver basin used formerly at the
master's table on festival days, in Trinity College Hall, Cambridge; and I
have also seen it on a sliver-gilt rose-water basin, introduced at the
banquets given by the master of Magdalene College in the same university.
[mu].
"_Fierce_" (Vol. viii., p. 280.).--In this part of the country the words
_pert_, pronounced "peart," and _pure_, bear the same meaning, of well in
health and spirits.