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tion. These they must keep fresh by repetition. They learn the principles of versification, etc. They study Cicero's Deirnicitia and De Senectute for their second hour of work. For the third hour, they study Virgil's fleneid, locating types of verse, but seeking others from Catullus, Tibullus, and Horace, though always guarding chastity in those first two unchaste authors. The fourth hour is given to the pen. The subjects of their assignments are to be taken from their readings that they may know where to get vocabulary and forms of sententiae. They must distinguish poetic words and figures from the purity of orators, Cicero and the word of the master to be the standards. For poetry, in the first months they transpose the words of good verses, laboring solely in structure; afterward taking free sententiae, but being occupied in the invention and connection of words. The boys, therefore, complete most of the grammar including prosody, and apply it to Cicero's De Amicitia and De Senectute in prose, to Virgil's deneid, with aid from Catullus, Tibullus, and Horace for forms of versification. They are also drilled in various forms of compositional exercises.
In all three of these classes, ninth, eighth, seventh, especial at tention is to be paid to memory work, for these things should be retained forever. In Cicero and Virgil the boys should memorize at least the things useful for imitation, and probably all. They should memorize something every day just to exercise the memory itself. There should be regular and frequent repetitions. The materials should be systematic. The lectures must not occupy too much time, since the boy must digest the matter. "Four or at the most five, but not fewer than four nor more than five hours must be imposed by the master." One must not exercise in more than three things each day; two are to be preferred.
At his ninth or tenth year, the boy enters the sixth class. Now he refreshes and systematizes in his mind the precepts which he has been taught the preceding three years rather than learns new, unless some things had not previously been mastered. So one hour is spent on the 1leneid and what may remain to be done in collecting verses from Catullus, Tibullus, and Horace. Outstanding places are also to be collected from Cicero, examples of argumentation for imitation, and various figures. These three things should be collected in three different notebooks by this class. Other authors may be treated in the same way. Caesar is admitted here to be inserted between Terence and Plautus. Sallust also, but he and Plautus are really better
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