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for searching only. in heathen gods as for the fourth form. Instead of the psalms, "moral themes" might be written in Latin, prose or verse as required. The themes of the week were now collected on Fridays. Sallust might on Mondays represent the historians or orators as an alternative to Martial, and should probably somewhere have been accompanied by Caesar at least, though that author is nowhere mentioned.
Virgil and Martial continued as the poets for the sixth form, with "A morall Theme forLatin verse or other exercise." On Saturday, "A divine Theme" was set, which appears Monday as "Proses collected." On Wednesdays and Thursdays, "A morall Theme" was required, with no specification as to verse or prose, and on Thursday this might be a dictamen. Here are the Aphthonian themes on moral and divine matters, leading in prose to orations. In Greek, the boys began the grammar in the fifth and continued in the sixth and seventh. The Greek Testament was "Construed & Examined" on Tuesdays as the first Greek author.
In the seventh, the boys continue their Greek, with the grammar and the Minor Poets& as alternates, and the Greek mythology of Apollodorus as a possibility on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For Latin, Horace is the poet on Tuesdays and Thursdays; and Tully's Select Orations become the model in prose on Mondays and Wednesdays. There was still a divine theme for Monday, and moral themes on the other three working days, though this might onTuesdays be a "Declamation" instead. The boys are thus advancing to the full-fledged oration, with Tully as guide. Presumably, they are also writing a certain amount of verse along with their continued study of poetry.
With the eighth form, "A Part in Hebrew Psalter or Gramar" be-comes the morning work, this being the only specification for Hebrew. In Latin, the study of poetry continues in the eighth form with Persius and Juvenal as the classics, supplemented by Aratus,s I sup-pose in Latin translation for the poetics of Astronomy and meteorology. No other Latin author is mentioned, but in Greek Homer also served as a model of poetry. Similarly, Demosthenes continued in Greek the work of teaching the boys oratory, which had been begun by Tully in the preceding form. Dionysius was also a possibility. The exercises of the boys continue to be a divine theme for Monday and
The reference is to Ralph Winterton's Poeiae Minaret Graeci, r63S, etc.
6 "Outside the school, let the pupil read privately the Phaenomena of Aratus and the Ceelestis Historia of Julius Hyginus" (Watson, Viaes: On Education, p. 09, cf. pp. 13o, 159, 16o). There had been an "Oronologia" bought for the Library in 1582-3.
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