28 APRIL 1950, Page 20

Greek Easter Greeting

SIR,—I was much interested in Mr. Renford Bambrough's article, Easter in Athens: 1949, in the" Spectator of April 7th. There is just one point in it which seems to me to call for elucidation. Mr. Bambrough mentions the reply to the Easter greeting in Athens as being "Anesten alethos."

In Eastern Macedonia, at any rate, one distinctly remembers it, during

the First World War, as. " Verveos ane.ste" ("Verily He is risen ").—