10 MAY 1913, Page 18

CAESAR'S WIFE. I To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1

SIR,—Was it Calpurnia of whom it was said that "Caesar's wife must needs be above suspicion" ? My schoolday

recollection tells me that it was his first wife (whose name, alas I I am too long out of school to recall), and that he divorced her, giving that saying as his reason. Calpurnia was the wife who survived him, and who (according to Shakespeare) warned him of the fate which awaited him. But perhaps your contributor knew this as well as I, and merely put his words into the mouth of Calpurnia as the best-known of Caesar's wives. For Caesar, like our own Henry VIII., was a " very much married man."—I am, Sir,