_"History of Jesus Christ."_--G. L. S. will feel obliged by any
correspondent of "N. & Q." stating who is the author of the following
work?--
"The History of the Incarnation, Life, Doctrine and Miracles, the
Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ. In Seven Books; illustrated with Notes, and interspersed
with Dissertations, theological, historical, geographical and critical.
"To which are added the Lives, Actions, and Sufferings of the Twelve
Apostles; also of Saint Paul, Saint Mark, Saint Luke, and Saint
Barnabas. Together with a Chronological Table from the beginning of the
reign of Herod the Great to the end of the Apostolic Age. By a Divine
of the Church of England.
"London: printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe, in Paternoster Row,
1737."
This work is in one folio volume, and all I can ascertain of its authorship
is that it was _not_ written by Bishop Gibson, of "Preservative" fame.
_Quantity of the Latin Termination -anus._--Proper names having the
termination _-anus_ are always long in Latin and short in Greek; thus, the
Claudi[=a]nus, Luci[=a]nus, &c. of the Latins are [Greek: Klaudianos] and
[Greek: Loukianos] in Greek. What is to be said of the word [Greek:
Christianos]? Is it long or short, admitting it to be long in the Latin
tongue?
While on the subject of quantities, let me ask, where is the authority for
that of the name of the queen of the Ethiopians, Candace, to be found? We
always pronounce it long, but all books of authority mark it as short.