TO GIVE A MAN HORNS

Your correspondent L.C. has started a most interesting inquiry, and your readers must, I am sure, join with me in regretting that he should have been so laconic in the third division of his Query; and have failed to refer to, even if he did not quote, the passages from "late Greek," in which "horns" are mentioned as a symbol of a husband's dishonor. The earliest notice of this symbolical use of horns is, I believe, to be found in the *Oneirocritica* of Artemidorus, who lived during the reign of Hadrian, A.D. 117-138: [Greek: "Pepi de ippon en to peri agonon logo proeiraeiai. Elege de tis theas…