18 SEPTEMBER 1875, Page 16

MR. HODGKIN'S " CLALTDIAN."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—In the article on Mr. Hodgkin's edition of Claudian in last week's Spectator, your reviewer has passed over an extra. ordinary blunder in one of the passages which he has quoted from the work. In the passage I allude to, Mr. Hodgkin is speaking of the aptitude of the Roman race for attaching to themselves the nations whom they conquered, and he says the reason may partly be found " in the well-known words of Paul to Festus, seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness.'" As a matter of fact, the words were spoken neither by Paul nor to Festus ; they were spoken

by the orator Tertullus to Felix.—I am, Sir, &c., W. L. B.