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REPLY1850

TO GIVE A MAN HORNS.

By J. E. B. MAYOR. (Marlborough College)

L.C. may find the following references of service to him in his inquiry into the origin of this expression:—"Solanus ad Luc. D.M. 1. 2.; Jacobs ad Lucill. Epigr. 9.; Belin. ad Lucian, t. iii. p. 326.; Huschk. *Anal.* p. 168.; Lambec. ad Codin. § 126.; Nodell in *Diario Class.* t. x. p. 157.; Bayl. *Dict.* in Junone, not. E." Boissonade's note in his *Anecdotae*, vol. iii. p. 140.

Topics: Expression Origin, Classical References