M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato Major sive De Senectute: Laelius sive De amicitia et Epistolae selectaeWhittaker, 1859 - 262 pages |
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amicitia appears Asia author best book Caesar called Carbo case Cato Cicero says Cicero's common Comp consul contains cujus death difficult English Ennius example exercises explain explained explanation express expression first form forms friend friendship generally German language give good Grammar great Greek have Italy Key's kind know knowledge Laelius language Latin learn learned learning letter lictor life little made make Manutius matter mean meaning means mihi money Mutina natura neque nihil note notes notion old age omnibus order Orelli passage Patrae perhaps person place Plato Pompeius quum read reading right Roman Rome same Scipio second seems sense sentence Seyffert shows signify simple sine some sometimes speak subject subjunctive supposed take tamen Tarentum teacher terms text there they thing tibi time tion Tiro treatise true used usual Verr whole word words would write writing written Xenophon years young
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Page vii - But if the child miss, either in forgetting a word or in changing a good with a worse, or misordering the sentence, I would not have the master either frown or chide with him if the child have done his diligence and used no truantship therein. For I know by good experience that a child shall take more profit of two faults gently warned of than of four things rightly hit.
Page xvii - All languages, both learned and mother tongues, be gotten, and gotten only, by imitation. For as ye use to hear, so ye learn to speak; if ye hear no other, ye speak not yourself, and whom ye only hear, of them ye only learn.
Page v - AFTER the child hath learned perfectly the eight parts of speech, let him then learn the right joining together of substantives with adjectives, the noun with the verb, the relative with the antecedent.
Page xxviii - Translation, is easy in the beginning for the scholar, and bringeth also much learning and great judgment to the master. It is most common and most commendable of all other exercises for youth : most common ; for all your constructions in grammar schools be nothing else but translations. But because they be not double translations, as I do require, they bring forth but simple and single commodity ; and because also they lack the daily use of writing which is the only thing that breedeth deep root,...
Page xxv - Diversum. 6. Phrases. Then take this order with him: Read daily unto him some book of Tully; as the third book of Epistles, chosen out by Sturmius, de Amicitia, de...
Page xxviii - Torquatus' talk de Amicitia, in the latter end of the first book de Finibus; because that place was the same in matter, like in words and phrases, nigh to the form and fashion of sentences, as he had learned before in de Amicitia. I did translate it myself into plain English, and gave it him to turn into Latin; which he did so choicely, so orderly, so without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar, that some in seven year in grammar schools, yea, and some in the university too, cannot do...
Page xxvi - Their whole knowledge by learning without the book was tied only to their tongue and lips, and never ascended up to the brain and head, and therefore was soon spit out 'of the mouth again. They were as men always going, but ever out of the way.
Page 236 - Asia rediens cum ab Aegina Megaram versus navigarem, coepi regiones circumcirca prospicere. Post me erat Aegina, ante me Megara, dextra Piraeus, sinistra Corinthus, quae oppida quodam tempore florentissima fuerunt, nunc prostrata et diruta ante oculos iacent.
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