[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word Tetrarch begins with a capital letter.  But, according to Rule 8th, “When a common and a proper name are associated merely to explain each other, it is in general sufficient, if the proper name begin with a capital, and the appellative, with a small letter.”  Therefore, “tetrarch” should here begin with a small t.]

“Who has been more detested than Judas the Traitor?”—­Author.  “St. Luke, the Evangelist, was a physician of Antioch, and one of the converts of St. Paul.”—­Id. “Luther, the Reformer, began his bold career by preaching against papal indulgences.”—­Id. “The Poet Lydgate was a disciple and admirer of Chaucer:  he died in 1440.”—­Id. “The Grammarian Varro, ’the most learned of the Romans,’ wrote three books when he was eighty years old.”—­Id. “John Despauter, the great Grammarian of Flanders, whose works are still valued, died in 1520.”—­Id. “Nero, the Emperor and Tyrant of Rome, slew himself to avoid a worse death.”—­Id. “Cicero the Orator, ’the Father of his Country,’ was assassinated at the age of 64.”—­Id. “Euripides, the Greek Tragedian, was born in the Island of Salamis, B. C. 476.”—­Id. “I will say unto God my Rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?”—­SCOTT:  Ps. xlii, 9.  “Staten Island, an island of New York, nine miles below New York City.”—­Univ.  Gaz. “When the son of Atreus, King of Men, and the noble Achilles first separated.”—­Coleridge’s Introd., p. 83.

   “Hermes, his Patron-God, those gifts bestow’d,
    Whose shrine with weaning lambs he wont to load.” 
        —­POPE:  Odys., B. 19.

UNDER RULE X.—­OF PERSONIFICATIONS.

“But wisdom is justified of all her children.”—­SCOTT, ALGER:  Luke, vii, 35.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word wisdom begins with a small letter.  But, according to Rule 10th, “The name of an object personified, when it conveys an idea strictly individual, should begin with a capital.”  Therefore, “Wisdom” should here begin with a capital W.]

“Fortune and the church are generally put in the feminine gender.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, p. 37.  “Go to your natural religion; lay before her Mahomet, and his disciples.”—­Blair’s Rhetoric, p. 157:  see also Murray’s Gram., i, 347.  “O death! where is thy sting?  O grave! where is thy victory?”—­1 Cor., xv, 55; Murray’s Gram., p. 348; English Reader, 31; Merchant’s Gram., 212.  “Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.”—­SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  Matt., vi, 24.  “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”—­IIDEM:  Luke, xvi, 13.  “This house was built as if suspicion herself had dictated the plan.”—­See Key.  “Poetry distinguishes herself from prose, by yielding to a musical law.”—­See Key.  “My beauteous deliverer thus uttered her divine instructions:  ’My name