MR. DAVIS'S " AGRICOLA."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " BrEorAxon.") SIR,—May I correct a slight misapprehension on the part of your reviewer, in his notice of my edition of the "Agricola," in the Spectator of November 4th ? In the passage, " ubi officio satisfactum nulla ultra potestatis persona tristitiam et avaritiam et arrogantiam exuerat," he infers from the omission of the period at " persona " that I intended to make " exuerat " dependent on the " ubi " clause. This was far from being my idea. I did not in my notes translate the entire passage, but, had I done so, it would have taken some such form as the following;—" With. no airs of office after his public duties were done, he was entirely free from avarice and repellent hauteur." In adopting this punctuation, I considered " exuerat " to be the main verb of the sentence, to which an ablative of attendant circumstances with a temporal clause in close connection with it is added. The meaning is thus almost exactly what your reviewer suggests.—I am, Sir, &ea Weymouth College, November 8th, R. F. Divs.
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