Errata
Sir: One or two inadvertent errors appeared in my letter which you published last week under the heading Apologia transfugae, to accompany one or two pieces of calculated nonsense. While it may well be a good idea to throw one's arguments into the sea from time to time, what I wrote, mindful of the Homeric burlesque, was: Having thrown all my augments into the sea long ago . ."
Later on, according to my copy of my letter, I described Homer as being " . . . sine die et urbe," not " orbe." If I failed to make this correction in the copy thit reached you, my apologies.
As a matter of interest, the title of A.D. Godley's book of light verses, to which I referred obliquely (" secood strings,with a final 's') was Second Strings, published by Methuen in 1902. The quotation was from the poem called 'After The Summer Meeting.'
Richard Brett-Smith Oxford.
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