Professor Dunston gives my loosely expressed reference to Horatian scholars the treatment it deserved (above, 56). I ought perhaps to have said ‘scholars whose authority carries great weight with me’ and hoped to show that I was not merely advocating in this respect an eccentric view of my own. In view of what he goes on to say, I hope it will not seem arrogant if I now say that Horace has been a favourite author with me for forty years and that the kind of structure I advocated does seem to me to be an element in his art. In a work of art such a structure must be self-evident, if it is real: otherwise it is likely to be something imposed on the artist by scholars or critics.