24 MARCH 1906, Page 17

AN HOMERIC MOTTO.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—In that most delightful little book, " Byways in the Classics," by Mr. H. E. P. Platt (issued last year)—a volume that every classical scholar will love to con at odd moments— there is a chapter entitled "Some Mottoes," which will rejoice the hearts of all humourists. May I be allowed to suggest that the following fragment from Homer should find a place in any subsequent edition of the book P— For the Salvation Army.

Ain-tuffs aiiTig (ILIAD iv. 328).

(Literally, " devisers of the War Cry.")