_Urbanus Regius_ (No. 23. p. 367.).--The "delightful old lady" is
informed that "Urbanus Regius" (or Urban le Roi) was one of the
reformers, a native of Langenargen, in Germany. His works were published
under the title of _Vitet et Opera Urbani Regii, &c._, Norib. 1562. His
theological works have been translated into English, as the lady is
aware.
W. FRANKS MATHEWS.
Kidderminster, April 7. 1850.
_Horns_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--Rosenmüller ad Exodum xxxiv. 29.
"_Ignorabat quods plenderet entis faciei ejus_. Vulgatus
interpres reddidit. _Ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua_,
quia verbum _Karan_ denominativum nominis _Keren, cornu_;
opinatus est denotare, _cornua habere_; hine nata opinio, Mosis
faciem fuisse cornutam. Sed nomen [Hebrew: keren] ob
similitudinem et ad _radios_ transferri, docet Haliæ, m. 4. ubi
de fulminibus dicitur.... Hic denotat _emisit radias_, i.e.
splenduit." LXX. [Greek: dedoxastai]. Our version, _shone_.
R. ad Psal. xxii. seems to say, that in Arabic there is the like
metaphor, of the sun's rays to a deer's horns. R. adds, that the Jews
also attributed horns to Moses in another sense, figuratively for power,
as elsewhere.
_Tauriformis._--The old scholiasts on Horace say that rivers are always
represented with horns, "propter impetum et mugitum æquarum."
"Corniger Hesperidum fluvius."
An old modern commentator observes, that in Virgil "Rhenus bicornis,"
rather applies to its two æstuaries.
When Milton says (xi. 831.) "push'd by the horned flood," he seems
rather to mean, as Newton explains him, that "rivers, when they meet
with anything to obstruct their passage, divide themselves and become
_horned_ as it were, and hence the ancients have compared them to
bulls."