Word: persius
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...public part of the Houghton Library is centered in the Oval Lobby, the walls of which are occupied by 12 collections, ranging from 181 editions of Persius behind one set of glass doors, to the original Harvard College textbooks and the Charter of 1650 behind another...
...public part of the Library is centered in the Oval Lobby, the walls of which are occupied by twelve collections, ranging from 181 editions of Persius behind one set of glass doors, to the original Harvard College textbooks and Charter of 1650 behind another. Montaigne, the Theatre Collection, and Philip Hofer's newly organized Graphic Arts Department are the subjects of some of the other exhibits. These books are selections from much larger collections kept downstairs...
...well as concentrators believed they might, although the organization is all right. Latin Composition seems to be fairly well taught in Latin 3. The first half of Latin 8, dealing with Cicero and Lucretius, will be given by Mr. Mynors of Balliol College, Oxford. The second half on Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, is taken by Professor Pease to whom the adjective "old-fashioned" is applied...
...knowledge than the required study of two ancient authors can give him. To derive the most from his study of English drama, a man should have read in the original Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca, and to appreciate to the full his English satire he should know Horace, Ovid, and Persius. If, because of the ill-adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools, men cannot get their grounding in grammar of Classical languages there, and if because of pressing requirements of concentration and distribution, men cannot begin this elementary study in college, the alternative is to read the classics in English...
...Persius' Satires", Professor Peterkin, Sever...