" The author may have had in his mind a passage in Dion Cassius' description of the fire:[Greek: thorybos te oun exaisios pantachou pantas katelambanen, kai dietrichon ohi men tae ohi de tae hosper emplaektoi, kai allois tines epamynontes epynthanonto ta oikoi kaiomena kai heteroi prin kai akousai hoti ton spheteron ti empepraestai, emanthanon, hoti apololen.

[Greek: (Philôn)perì mèn oun tà theia kaì pátria matháemata, póson te kaì paelíkon eisenáenektai pónon, érgô pasi daelos kaì perì tà philósopha dè kaì eleuthéria taes éxôthen paideías oiós tis aen, oudèn dei légein hóti kaì málista tàen katà Plátôna kaì

panta oun | hos poieite houto | vi. 31.

[Greek: Ginesthe oun psronimoi hos oi opheis kai akeaioi hos ai peristerai.]

A star shone in heaven above all the stars, and the light thereof was unspeakable, and the strangeness thereof caused astonishment' ([Greek: Pos oun ephanerothae tois aoisin; Astaer en ourano elampsen huper pantas tous asteras, kai to phos autou aneklalaeton aen, kai xenismon pareichen hae kainotaes autou]).

Ae tis estin ex humon anthropos, hon ean aitaesae ho huios autou arton, mae lithon epidosei auto; kai ean ichthun aitaesae mae ophin epidosei auto; ei oun humeis ponaeroi ontes oidate domata agatha didonai tois teknois humon, poso mallon ho pataer humon ho en tois ouranois dosei agatha tois aitousin auton;] Clem.

[Greek: Tina aitaesei huios arton, mae lithon epidosei auto; ae kai ichthun aitaesei, mae ophin epidosei auto; ei oun humeis, ponaeroi ontes, oidate domata agatha didonai tois teknois humon, poso mallon ho pataer humon ho ouranios dosei agatha tois aitoumenois auton kai tois poiousin to thelema autou;] Luke xi.

[Greek: Tina de ex humon ton matera aitaesei ho huios arton, mae lithon epidosei auto; ae kai ichthun, mae anti ichthuos ophin epidosei auto, ae kai ean aitaeoae oon, mae epidosei auto skorpion; ei oun humeis, ponaeroi humarchontes, oidate domata agatha didonai tois teknois humon,

[Greek: Tines oun haemon hoi logoi, hois entrephometha; lego humin, agapate tous echthrous humon, eulogeite tous kataromenous, proseuchesthe huper ton diokonton humas, hopos genaesthe huioi

ho oun ho theos sunezeuxen anthropos mae chorizeto.

Nose : Me-oun.

,' says he, 'my masther is the Prence Ragin.''Blur an' ouns,' says I; 'tell his honour I'll be wid him in the twinklin' ov a bedpost, the minit I take my face from behind my beard, an' get on my clane flax; but stop a bit,' says I; 'where does the masther live?''Down at Carltown Palace,' says he; 'so make yourself dacent, an' be off wid yourself afther me.'

Tarmul, Moil (Flinders) : Nogro : - : Mor-ro : Na'-ag : Me-oun.

And the high-pitched nasal refrain of it is 'Consti-tuci-oun!']