[17] Reports from the Commissioners of Charities b. 235. 32nd
part 4.--696.
[18] Ibid.
_Derivation of "Calamity"_ (No. 14. p. 215.)--"Calamity" is from
the Latin _calamitas_, from _calamus_ a straw or stalk of corn,
signifying, 1st, the agricultural misfortune of the corn being beaten
down or laid by a storm; and thence, any other trouble or disaster:--
"Ipsa egreditur nostri fundi _calamitas_."
Ter. _Eun_. i. 1.