4 MAY 1918, Page 12

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Perhaps you might

care to insert the following. The late Mr. Beatson, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, told me that he had as examiner for the ordinary degree received the following rendering. I do not guarantee collocation of words, as I have not a copy of Euripides by me. They occur, I believe, in the Oedipus Coloneus, "Ixci (18044 ravbe vnatios Operripta"—" he has food for the stomach like these." The rendering was, "Tho sister has the stomach ache," confounding derivatives of rplOcca with orpioas.

Rivington Parsonage, Bolton, Lancashire.

[Our correspondent is thinking of the lines— &3A¢& 1', as l'OCKet TOL■TOLOW ibopeI rd rijs raXcavvs vneh1os Operriip4a.

—ED. Spectator.]