15 AUGUST 1914, Page 17

THE BELGIANS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TR/ "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your readers may be amused by the enclosed epigram :—

BELGAE.

[" Hortua omninm fortissimi sant Delgae."

CAESAR, De Bello Gailier, L, 1. Cf. TACITUS : Quiequid roboris apnd

Cabs sit, ease Belgas."]

Caesar art quondam—"gens aunt fortissima Belgae " : Atque hodie Kaiser testificatur idem.