DID THE 'DAILY TIMES' QUOTE HORACE CORRECTLY?
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To me Editor. 818, —If you have not nlre»dv annihilated the precouious youth who penned the first item in your local columns last evening, spare him this once, and perlinp.s he will not aeaia offend by attempting to insert such a fearful word as " carebant" in the last line of an Alcaic stanza. He may love the 'Daily Times' and it 3 leaderwriters even with a love Uko v.nto your own. but Avhen it docs chance to bn i ight he should learn to leave it alone.—l am kc Dunedin, September 21. [ihe question is what Horace wrote, not what hmigby ' thinkß he should have written.— Lw. K S,]
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Evening Star, Issue 3924, 21 September 1875, Page 3
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118DID THE 'DAILY TIMES' QUOTE HORACE CORRECTLY? Evening Star, Issue 3924, 21 September 1875, Page 3
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