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s agei pros atan;] [Greek: Prassein d' oligoston chronon ektos atas.]" This, [Greek: petroi stathmen harmozon], he translates,-- "Whose mind the God leads to destruction; _but that he_ (_the God_) practises this a short time without destroying such an one." But for the Italics it might have been an oversight: they would seem to imply he has some authority for his translation. I have no edition of Sophocles by me to discover, but surely no critical scholar can acquiesce in it. The only _active_ sense of [Greek: prassein] I remember at the moment is _to exact_. It surely should be translated, "_And he, whom the God so leads to_ [Greek: ate], _fares_ a _very_ short time without it." The best translation of [Greek: ate] is, perhaps, _infatuation_. Moreover, how is the above translation reconciled with the very superlative [Greek: oligoston]? M. _Brothers of the same Name_ (Vol. viii., p. 338.).--It is not unusual in old pedigrees to find two brothers or two sisters with the same Christian name; but it is unusual to find more than two living at the same time with only one Christian name between them: this, however, occurs in the family of Gawdy of Gawdy Hall, Norfolk. Thos. Gawdy married three wives, and by each had a son Thomas. The eldest was a serjeant-at-law, and died in 1556. The second was a judge of the Queen's Bench, and died in November, 1587 or 1588. The third is known as Sir Francis Gawdy, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; but he also was baptized by the name of Thomas. Lord Coke, who succeeded him as Chief Justice, says (Co. Lit. 3. a.): "If a man be baptized by the name of Thomas, and after at his confirmation by the bishop he is named John, he may purchase by his name of confirmation; and this was the case of Sir Francis Gawdie, late C. J. of C. B., whose name of baptism was Thomas, and his name of confirmation Francis; and that name of Francis, by the advice of all the judges in anno 36 Henry VIII. (1544-5), he did bear and after used in all his purchases and grants." The opportunity afforded by the Roman Catholic Church of thus changing the baptismal name may help to account for this practice, which probably arose from a desire to continue the particular name in the family. If one of two sons with the same name of baptism died in childhood, the other continued the name: if both lived, one of them might change his name at confirmation. There is no name given
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