Note 54 — THE TWENTY-SECOND PAPYRUS

This is valuable. I suppose “formerly” helps to date these papyrè, at least within a century or so. But Mr. C.’s epithet for Marcus Curtius strikes me as being a little what I might almost term original. “Showy” hardly seems the just word for a hero. But, of course, Mr. C. wrote only a few centuries after the young Roman’s celebrated header, which perhaps did not seem extraordinarily impressive to contemporary professionals. Distance does sometimes lend inchantment to the view, I believe. A. H.