Trunck Breeches

"X.Y.Z." (No. 24. p. 384) will also find the following in Dryden's *Translation of Perseus*:— "There on the walls by Polynotu's hand, The conquered Medians in *trunk*-breeches stand." Certainly a very free translation. See the original, Sat. 3. *Trunck* is from the Latin *truncus*, cut short, maimed, imperfect. In the preface to *Johnson's Dictionary* we have the following:— "The examples are too often injudicious *truncated*." Vide also *Shaw, Museum Liverianum*, or rather examples given in *Richardson's Dictionary*. Shaw, in speaking of the feathers of certain birds, says, "They appear as if…