22 MARCH 1913, Page 21

" QUEM DEUS Vl7LT PERDERE."

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A passage has been brought to my notice in Professor Mackail's "Latin Literature" (p. 87), in which he speaks of the " perpetually misquoted" line of Publilius Syrus- " Stultum facit fortuna quern volt perdere."

This is probably the original form of the phrase.—I