J. MACRAY.

Oxford.

"_Verbatim et literatim._"--As this phrase often finds insertion, even in

the pages of "N. & Q.," it may be well to call attention to the fact that

there is no such adverb as _literatim_ in the Latin language. There is the

adverb _literate_, which means after the manner of a literate man,

learnedly; but to express the idea intended by the coined word _literatim_,

I think we must use the form _ad literam_--"_Verbatim et ad literam._"

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