1 JUNE 1912, Page 16

THEODORIDES' EPITAPH.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1

SIB,—There is another well-known rendering, more literal and no less melodious :—

" Tomb of a shipwrecked mariner am I, But thou sail on ;

For homeward safe did other vessels fly When we were gone."

[Another correspondent informs us that the version quoted by Professor William James (Spectator, May 180 , p. 795) will

be found in " Anthologia Polyglotta " (London and Oxford, 1849), by the late Dr. Henry Wellesley, Principal of New Inn Hall, No. ccclvi., p. 300. It is signed " W.," which initial is shown by the index to refer to Dr•. Wellesley himself.—ED, Spectator.]