2 AUGUST 1913, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR Ol TEE " SPICT.LTOR."1 SIR,—Under this beading

some of your correspondents have recently given examples of terse description. But I know of none (except, perhaps, "Veni, vidi, vici ") which equals the one line into which Dante compresses the pleading, sentence, and execution of the guilty souls tried before Minos :— " Dicono, e odono, e poi son gi'h volte."