14 MAY 1887, Page 15

"SPRING" IN LATIN AND GREEK.

[To THE 1301TOE ON THE •• SPZITTATOR.".1 tam, —I have just seen your article on " Spring," in your issue of April 23rd, and it seems to me you are a little unjust to the "prosaic " Romans ; for though their word for Spring is a borrowed word, they embody their idea of the budding season in their original Latin name for the spring month of the year, April. But poets generally prefer the division of the year into four. There is also a beautiful word in use by the modern Greeks for Spring, if it is not sanctioned by the ancient tongue, namely, "the opening." So I think both Romans and Greeks, at least modern Greeks, do not yield to the English in their poetical conception of Spring.—I am, Sir, &e.,