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He can readily learn the explanations
or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more
obscure words by the way and, while he is still engaged on the first rudiments, acquire what would
otherwise demand special time to be devoted to it.
And as we are still discussing minor details, I would
urge that the lines, which he is set to copy, should
not express thoughts of no significance, but convey
some sound moral lesson.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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