1 APRIL 1938, Page 21

" TWO CORRECTIONS "

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am aware that my good friend Virgil was in the habit of borrowing freely from the works of other poets, and no one can appreciate better than myself the art with which he added lustre to his borrowings. It would seem that he retains the custom in that Elysium which we now inhabit. The line

Naturam expeller furca, tamen risque recurret occurs in the Tenth Epistle of my First Book. I have always believed it to be original.—I am, yours respectfully,

Q. HORATIUS FLACCUS.