11 OCTOBER 1913, Page 14

HORACE ' S ADVICE TO TURKEY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The following Sorg Horatiana seems appropriate to latest demands of Turkey :— " interfusa nitentes Vites aequora Cycladas,"

which a Greek has thus translated :-

" The /Egean islands all belong to us : Keep off the /Egean, it is dangerous."

the am, Sir, &c.,

B. N. C.