Smith, pseudonym for freelance writer Evadne Price, obtained the war journal of a V.A.D. by the name of Winifred Young, who had turned over the diary with the stipulation that Price remain faithful to the tone.

At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

In this description of his own style, the only stylistic term Persius copies wholesale from Horace is the idea of the ore rotundo, the rounded expression, of AP 324.

Coordinate term: silver knight