A poet born, an orator murdered—these are two events of the year after the death of Caesar. Neither, it is true, can be compared in significance with the Ides of March; but after 2,000 years both are still worth recalling. Ovid at any rate seems likely to receive his due share of attention. The modern inhabitants of his native town have instituted a whole Ovidian year to mark his bimillenary, thereby adroitly evading chronological controversy and ensuring that at least one end of their celebrations will fall on the right date. An international commemorative volume of essays has for some time been in preparation by Monsieur N. I. Herescu in France; and here we have two Ovidian articles in this number, while Mr. L. P. Wilkinson's lively appreciation of the poet in Ovid Recalled is already well known. Cicero's prospects seem at present rather more uncertain, but in this country the Summer Conference at Cambridge on ‘The Changing Face of Classical Studies’ will devote one of its study groups to him, and we hope that his death will not go altogether unnoticed in the October number of Greece & Rome.