4 AUGUST 1900, Page 14

MR. PAGE'S EDITION OF THE ANEID. [To THE EDITOR OF

THE "SPacrAT0s..."1 SIE,—May not the line-

" necdum etiam geminos a tergo respicit angues," quoted in your review of Mr. Page's 2Eneid, V11,-X11, in your issue of July 28th, refer to the twin snakes twined round the Caduceus of Mercury, who with it conducted the

souls of the dead to the infernal regions (vide Aneid, IV. 242) ?—

" Turn virgam capit ; hcanirnas ille

Palleutes sub- tristia Tartars mittit."