y, "living
on air;" like Democritus, who subsisted three days upon the steam of new
loaves.

[Greek: Kapnobatai] meant, as I believe, to describe their religiousness
more directly; treading on the clouds, living _in_ the air: like
Socrates in Aristophanes, [Greek: Neph]. 225.:

[Greek: "Aerobato kai periphrono ton helion,"]

And in v. 330. [Greek: kapnos] is used of the clouds:

[Greek: "Ma Di all homichlen kai droson autas hegoumen kai kapnon
einai."]

There is nothing in Solinus, cap. 15.; and Mela, lib. ii., is too wide a
reference.

C.B.

_Meaning of the Word "Thwaites"_(Vol. ii., p. 441.).--The word "Thwayte"
occurred in the ancient form of the Bidding Prayer: "Ye shalle byddee
for tham, that this cherche honour with book, with bell, with
vestiments, with _Thwayte_," &c. This form is said to be above four
hundred years old; and Palmer says (_Orig. Lit._, iii. p. 60.) that we
have memorials of these prayers used in England in the fourteenth
century. Hearne remarks that the explication of this word warranted by
Sir E. Coke is "a wood grubbed up and turned to arable." This land being
given to any church, the donors were thus commended by the prayers of
the congregation.

In Yorkshire the word is so understood: Thwaite, or "stubbed ground,
ground that has been essarted or cleaned."

J.H.M.

_Meaning of "Thwaites"_ (Vol. ii., p. 441.).--Hearne took the word
"Thwayte" to signify "a wood grubbed up and turned into arable." His
explanation, with other suggestions as to the meaning, of this word, may
be found in a letter from Hearne to Mr. Francis Cherry, printed in vol.
i. p. 194. of _Letters written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries_, published by Longman and Co. in 1813.

J.P. JR.

December 5. 1850.

_Thomas Rogers of Horninger_ (Vol. ii., p. 424.).--Your correspondent
S.G. will find a brief notice of this person in Rose's _Biographical
Dictionary_, London, 1848. It appears he was rector of Horninger, and a
friend of Camden; who prefixed some commendatory verses to a work of
his, entitled _The Anatomy of the Mind_. I would suggest to S.G. that
further information may probably be collected respecting him from these
verses, and from the prefaces, &c. of his other works, of which a long
list is given in Rose's _Dictionary_.

T.H. KERSLEY, A.B.

King William's Col., Isle of Man.

_Thomas Rogers of Horninger_ (Vol. ii., p 424.).--If S.G. will apply to
th