It is no reproach to Sir Osborne Morgan that, in the occupations of a busy political life, his scholarship should have become a little rusty, but it is a pity that he should so often have allowed himself to be caught tripping, when a little timely counsel in the correction of his proof sheets might have prevented this. In the First Eclogue the line “Non insueta graves temptabunt pabula fetas” is translated “Here no unwonted herb shall tempt the travailing cattle.” What it really means is, no change of fodder, no fodder which is strange to them, shall “infect” or “try” the pregnant cattle, “insueta” being used in exactly the same sense as in Eclogue V. 56, “_insuetum_ miratur limen Olympi,” and “temptare” as it is used in Georg. III. 441, and commonly in classical Latin. It is, to say the least, questionable whether in the couplet-- “Pauperis et tuguri congestum cæspite culmen, Post aliquot, mea regna videns, mirabor aristas?”-- the last line can mean “Gaze on the straggling corn, the remains of what once was my kingdom.” “Aristas” is much more likely to be a metonymy for “messes,” _i.e._ “annos,” like αροτου in Sophocles’ _Trachiniæ_, 69, τον μεν παρελθοντ’ αροτον, a confirmative illustration which seems to have escaped the commentators; but it is difficult to say, and Sir Osborne has, it must be owned, excellent authority for his interpretation. In Eclogue III. the somewhat difficult passage “pocula ponam Fagina.... Lenta quibus torno facili superaddita vitis Diffusos hedera vestit pallente corymbos”-- _i.e._ “where the limber vine wreathed round them by the deft graving tool is twined with pale ivy’s spreading clusters,”--is translated: “Over whose side the vine by a touch of the graving tool added Mantles its clustering grapes in the paler leaves of the ivy.” This is quite wrong. “Corymbos” cannot possibly mean clusters of grapes, but clusters of ivy berries, “hederâ pallente” being substituted, after Virgil’s manner, for “hederæ pallentis.” In Eclogue IV. 24 there is no reason for supposing that the “fallax herba veneni” is hemlock; it is much more likely to be aconite. In line 45 “sandyx” should be translated not “purple” but “crimson,” vague as the colour indicated by “purple” is. In Eclogue V. “Si quos aut Phyllidis ignes, Aut Alconis habes laudes, aut jurgia Codri” is not “Phyllis’s fiery loves you would sing or the quarrels of Codrus,”