"RUDE " HEALTH. •
'To TER EDITOR. or TEM " SPRCTATOR."J Sin,--The above phrase-comes to us from the Latin "cruda. gains," the initial " c" in "crude" being dropped by phonetic Licence. That adjective, in the sense of "young," "vigorous," , 4, unimpaired," is also applied to old age when still possessed of these attributes. Virgil, referring to Charon, the ferryman ef. the underworld, describes him (" rEn." vi. 304) as. .
- "Jam senior ; sod cruda deo viridisque seneotus."
• Tanana+ (" Agr." 29) has a reminiscence of Virgil in his de- scription of the host of Galgacus as consisting of young men and also of those who enjoyed a "cruda ac viridis senectus." Italiens (v. 569). applies the epithet " crude" to the `spirit" (inens) with whiclithe.warrior goes into action :—
, • . . " la arrest, Ille quidom cruda mente et viridisaiinus ibat."
• In the same sense George Buchanan,. in a memorable poem, alludes to " eruda sells.". In none of these, passages would '',~rude " (meaning rudie) be appropriate.—I am,-Sir, &c.,
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