1 MAY 1897, Page 25

Horaeds Odes and Epodes. With Introduction and Notes, by James

Gow, Litt.D. (Cambridge University Press.)—As we have already noticed Dr. Gow's editions of the Odes and Epodes, we need not do more than call attention to the fact that the whole work is now published in a volume of con- venient size. We should like to know what Dr. Gow means when he says that "Once Ovid actually rebukes Horace," giving as a reference Ars Amatoria, ii. 271. This line runs thus :— " Turpiter his emitur spes mortis et orbs senectus," and can only rebuke the fortune-hunter. The lover's gifts, says the poet, ought not to be discredited by the fact that gifts are often sent with mercenary motive. But we cannot see where Horace comes in.