22 AUGUST 1903, Page 18

CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Perhaps it is worth while, as the topic has found a place in your columns, to point out that Pinder was not a worshipper of wealth, and that in the passage beginning -Apurroe ply farap be did not mean (as one of your correspondents seems to think) that gold is better than water. He says that as gold stands first among a rich man's goods, the sun among heavenly bodies, and water among Nature's gifts to men—(this last is left to be understood from the large generality of the phrase of three words)—so the Olympic games excel all others.— I am, Sir, &c., ERNEST MYERS. [We cannot publish any more letters on this subject.— ED. Spectator.]