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The on-line catalogue of Oxbow Books advertises discounted copies of Jacqueline Long's Claudian's 'In Eutropium' or How, When and Why to Slander a Eunuch (Chapel Hill, 1996). Unfortunately, they retitle it Claudian's 'In Eutropiam', which makes the poor eunuch into a female Eutropia. Since Eutropius has been dead for sixteen centuries, this is surely an inadvertent typographical error, but it comes across as an insult worthy of Claudian himself.