26 JULY 1935, Page 6

Sir John Simon, unable to indUlge a taste for Latin

quotations in the House of Commons, enjoyed himself at the Horatian Society last Friday ; but The Times had its revenge upon him for quoting so hackneyed a line as Odi profanum volgus et aroeo by misprinting the last word aroeo. Sir John recalled the comment which F. E. Smith once whispered to his fellow-Ministers when a Kentish hop-grower complained : "'ops from 'ere and 'ops from there, but never a 'op from Kent "-211agnas inter open inops, said Smith. A member of the Labour Party, on reading the story,' was prompt to point out that the Horatian line goes • nicely back into the party. slogan- " 'Opelessness in the midrA of opulence." . JANUS,