26 JUNE 1909, Page 34

A DEAD LANGUAGE P [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]

giR,—The words, Ti trpoe•bfpxEO.8i /2' Ilatuuro,, Tisca; quoted in the note on "A Dead Language ?" (Spectator, Juno 19th, p. 9%76), occur in I. 1040 of the Medea, not the Alcestis. The poem is so fine an apologia for the study of Greek that one shrinks from cavil, but the misquotation vitiates the sense to those who know