of one of the Ptolemies.”—­Lempriere’s Dict. “Sixteen of the Tuberos, with their wives and children, lived in a small house.”—­Ib. “What are the Jupiters and Junos of the heathens to such a God?”—­Burgh’s Dignity, i, 234.  “Also when we speak of more than one person of the same name; as, the Henries, the Edwards.”—­Cobbetts E. Gram., 40.  “She was descended from the Percies and the Stanleys.”—­Loves of the Poets, ii, 102.  “Naples, or the Two Sicilies.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 273.  The word India, commonly makes the plural Indies, not Indias; and, for Ajaxes, the poets write Ajaces.  But Richard Hiley says, “Proper nouns, when pluralized, follow the same rules as common nouns; as, Venus, the Venuses; Ajax, the Ajaxes; Cato, the Catoes; Henry, the Henries.”—­Hiley’s E. Gram., p. 18.

   “He ev’ry day from King to King can walk,
    Of all our Harries, all our Edwards talk.”—­Pope’s Satires, iv.

OBS. 15.—­When a name and a title are to be used together in a plural sense, many persons are puzzled to determine whether the name, or the title, or both, should be in the plural form.  For example—­in speaking of two young ladies whose family name is Bell—­whether to call them the Miss Bells, the Misses Bell, or the Misses Bells.  To an inquiry on this point, a learned editor, who prefers the last, lately gave his answer thus:  “There are two young ladies; of course they are ‘the Misses.’  Their name is Bell; of course there are two ‘Bells.’  Ergo, the correct phrase, in speaking of them, is—­’the Misses Bells.’”—­N.  Y. Com.  Adv.  This puts the words in apposition; and there is no question, that it is formally correct.  But still it is less agreeable to the ear, less frequently heard, and less approved by grammarians, than the first phrase; which, if we may be allowed to assume that the two words may be taken together as a sort of compound, is correct also.  Dr. Priestley says, “When a name has a title prefixed to it, as Doctor, Miss, Master, &c., the plural termination affects only the latter of the two words; as, ’The two Doctor Nettletons’—­’The two Miss Thomsons;’ though a strict analogy would plead for the alteration of the former word, and lead us to say, ’The two Doctors Nettleton’—­’The two Misses Thomson.’”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 59.  The following quotations show the opinions of some other grammarians:  “Two or more nouns in concordance, and forming one complex name, or a name and a title, have the plural termination annexed to the last only; as, ’The Miss Smiths’—­’The three Doctor Simpsons’—­’The two Master Wigginses.’  With a few exceptions, and those not parallel to the examples just given, we almost uniformly, in complex names, confine the inflection to the last or the latter noun.”—­Dr. Crombie.  The foregoing opinion from Crombie, is quoted and seconded by Maunder, who adds the following examples:  “Thus, Dr. Watts:  ’May there not be Sir Isaac Newtons in every science?’—­’You must not suppose that the world is made up of Lady Aurora Granvilles.’”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 2.