[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1
Sin,—The same idea which Mr. Montgomery refers to in his quotation from Spenser (Spectator, February 1st) is brought out in a beautiful phrase of Arran: Be4, 41; icyceOic orparerk, swain' TO CIFFCETHrIXOP,—and the true soldier must wait until the recall is sounded before he quits the struggle, however grave his wounds may be. This identical figure may have been employed by Socrates in his reply to debes in the open- ing discussion of the Phaedo, where he says, 4; .4 TIN cppordpee tQFIP al cli•AptuTor nal et; asi 0 iavilis is TaIrrn Al;EIP alf0UPC6KE5Y, for cppoupig: may be rendered "on guard" no less accurately than "in some kind of prison," which is the more usual translation. This passage has often braced me when I have felt an inclination to desert an uncongenial post of duty.—I am, Sir, &c., STANLEY BALDWIN. Dunley Hall, near Stourport.
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