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Word: aiunt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requirement for admission was found: "When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classical Latine Authour ex tempore, & make and speake true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in ye Greeke toungue then may hee bee admitted into ye Colledge, nor shall any claime admission before such qualifications." In 1734 one record shows in addition to the above, "Whoever shall be able to read, construe & parse ordinary Greek, as in the New Testament, Socrates or such like, and be skilled in making Latin verse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN GREEK AND LATIN RULED | 9/29/1914 | See Source »

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