(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Snz,—I think there
are some slight errors in the prize epigram of the late Dean Vaughan as it is quoted by the writer of the excellent review of Harrow-on-the-Hill. I have not seen the original epigram for years, but if my memory serves me aright the following are the correct readings. The subject of the epigram was " Egomet mihi sum proximus." In the sixth line it should be " Charta referta " (crammed or full), and not " replete "; and in the last line, for " Ta mihi vicinus," I should read "Sum tibi vicious," which, it strikes me, is more pointed and neater. The late Bishop Cotton, who was at Cambridge about the time when this clever -epigram won the prize, told me that a critic remarked that " ne peream" would have been preferable to " ne yeller," to express an operation not known to Cicero, or even to Martial. a give my name for what it may be worth.—I am, Sir, &c., WALTER SCOTT SETON-KARR, H.M.S. Bengal C.S. (Retired).
Daljarrock, Ayrshire, N.B., November 2nd.
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