3 MAY 1935, Page 21

ACCIDIE

[To the Editor of TnE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reply to Mr. Haynes may I say that accidie is an Anglicized form of the mediaeval latin accidia, itself a Latinized form of the Greek tundia or as-h8Eta ? I have no doubt that it is a complaint of the elderly as well as of the