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With an Introductory Note by the REV. THE HON. E. LYTTELTON, M.A. Headmaster of Eton
‘Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; Hae tibi’erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem. Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.’
‘Fecisti patriam diversis gentibus unam, Profuit iniustis te dominante capi. Dumque offers victis proprii consortia iuris, Urbem fecisti quod prius orbis erat.’
ETON COLLEGE SPOTTISWOODE & CO., LIMITED 1908
Whatever controversies may be astir as to the precise objects of a classical training, it will hardly be disputed that if that teaching has been successful the pupils will sooner or later be able to make out an ordinary passage of ‘unseen’ Latin or Greek. It is a test to which the purely linguistic teacher must obviously defer: while the master, who aims at imparting knowledge of the subject-matter must acknowledge, if his boys flounder helplessly in unprepared extracts, that they could have learnt about ancient life better through translations.