SCREEDS OF LATIN
SIR,—It may be that John Leech (f1. 162o) would suppoit Mr. Gilchrist
in the view that Scottish scholars did not get all their latinity " in Scotland ": Scotus ubique later, nunquam vestigia figit, Perque soli longas it pelagique etas ; Hine mores Gallique refers Flandrique it Iberi, Brittonis at Cimbri, Teutonis artque No doubt travels in France contributed to the Renaissance elegance of Buchanan's verses, and to his rather blow; renown. May an English- man submit that the Latin poet of Scotland is Arthur Johnston (d. 1641)?
At all events, he writes as if he meant it, and in choice Latin, about salmon-fishing on Sunday: Salmo nets hodie salit et lascivit in undis, Cras fugiens supero figit in amne larem.
The airs of St. Andrew's: Sacra tamen Musis urbs es Phoebique ministris Nee major mends est honor die Luis, Lumina le blando Muras quae diligit Eos Adspicit, at roseis molliter afflat iquis.
—Yours faithfully, W. A. THORPE. The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W. r.
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