8 DECEMBER 1906, Page 16

(TO TRH EDITOR OF THE " SP BOTATOR.1 !

SIR,—These beautiful lines are by T. Walton, and are printed in " Anthologia Oxoniensis" with the heading "Lines intended to have been placed under a Statue of Somnus." As printed there they begin "Somne veni, et quamquam," &c., which is, perhaps, slightly more pleasing to the ear. I feel grateful to Sir Herbert Maxwell for recalling them, and for the sympathetic

English rendering.—I am, Sir, &c., A. 0. P.