15 JANUARY 1943, Page 12

NEWTON'S THEOLOGY

Sul,—A further fact about the adjective Arian, unknown to many lay folk and some clergy, is that the second syllable of the name of the heretic Arius is long. The word represents Areios, derived from Ares, the Greek god of war, and likewise wrongly transliterated in Areopagus.—Yours faithfully, E. J. BOLUS. The Rectory, Monk Sherborne, Basingstoke.