1. ‘although we Germans’: reported by Annette M. B. Meakin, The Times, 7 May 1936; quoted in Richards, 84.
2. Richards also quotes E. H. Blakeney’s report (The Sunday Times, 4 October 1931) of Wilamowitz’s remark that ‘we in Germany are fully aware that Housman is the leading living Latinist.’
3. ‘I have read’: D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ‘Bentley and Horace’, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical Society (1963) 110.
4. ‘no critic will get far’: D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ‘Bentley and Horace’, 107.
5. The very notion’: E.J. Kenney, The Classical Text (Berkeley, 1974) 23–4.