Petty Cury.
—There is a street bearing this name in Cambridge, which was always a mystery to me in my undergraduate days; perhaps some correspondent can unravel it?
E.S.T.
Virgil.
—Æneid, viii. 96.:
"Viridesque secant placido æquore silvas."
Will any of your classical correspondents favour me with their opinion as to whether secant in the above passage is intended to convey, or is capable of conveying, the idea expressed in the following line of Tennyson (Recollections of the Arabian Nights):
—— "my shallop ... clove
The citron shadows in the blue?"
This interpretation has been suggested to me as more poetical than the one usually given; but it is only supported by one commentator, Servius.