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making the first correction, the printers had made it much worse than it was originally.--He had some regard for the reputation of the University of Virginia, and insisted upon his Latin being reported correctly. The quotation from Virgil which he used was "Tanta ne ira animis erelestibus" They had printed it, "Tantan ira animis erelestib." He had, in his written speech, used a Greek quotation from Homer — the famous advice of Hipoloehus to his son, Glancus, when he went to the Trojan war "Alen arrestee sai upeirochon emmenal allan mede genos ischunemen "--"In every glorious act and strife to shine the first and best, and not to disgrace his birth." but, as they had no Greek type, he authorized them to leave that flourish out. He had, however, in his first correction, insisted that the printers should take the legs from Triptolemus Yellowley; but they had still got him as Triptolemus Yellowlegs. He hoped he would be at last set right before the public. Mr. Scott, of Fauquier,