11 JANUARY 1935, Page 20

BORBONIUS OR . . . ?

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My uncle—Bunnell Lewis—himself a Latin scholar, used to tell me nearly 60 years ago that the author of the line Tempora mutantur &c. was not Horace, but a prose writer.. Moreover its proper reading was Tempura mutantur et nos &c., and it was therefore not a hexameter. Unfortunately I• cannot remember whom he stated to be the author.—Yours,

&c., BUNNELL Buwros. The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W. 1.