POPE AND PETRONIUS

I have read "Mr. RICH'S" letter with great interest, and I willingly allow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism against Pope, and discussed the subject generally with equal fairness and ability. "But yet," I think that he wanders a little from the point when he says, "the surmise of the plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms employed by the Latin author, especially *corcillum*." Now the question, in my opinion, turns not so much on what *Petronius said*, as on what *Pope read*; i.e. not on the meaning that *Petronius gave* to the word (*corcillum*), but on that which *Po…