Word: plautus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...embraced in the course, and its presence on the examination-paper caused very great surprise. True, the sentences given were translations from the author read, but their selection was purely arbitrary, and to expect one to load the memory with even a quarter of the innumerable idiomatic constructions in Plautus were an evident absurdity. Is it not, too, a somewhat novel idea that a thorough understanding of a Latin author is measured by ability to render an English version into the original, or the original into Greek...
...Latin 9. Where fifty men are packed into a room of the size of U. 24, the amount of fresh air left at the end of ten minutes for each man to breathe is barely sufficient to support life, and under such trying circumstances even Tacitus grows commonplace and Plautus prosy. The substitution of a room as large as U. 16 would be hailed with rejoicing...
...Rome under the Emperors, from the hands of the greatest writers of that age. The second introduces the student to Lucretius, by many regarded as the greatest Latin poet, and much talked about now for the profundity and power of his philosophical speculation. Few writers are more amusing than Plautus. A restriction with reference to 9 will be noticed on the scheme of study...
...only action that tells in this world; action alone accomplishes anything great. Has not the reign of talkers been fatal to us? The spirit of our modern times demands of us something other than the power to arrange syllables, or scan the verses of Plautus. The time is no more when we could devote ten years of our life to so sterile an occupation. What need have we to-day to make Mithridates speak barbarous Latin, or to put solecisms into the mouth of Hannibal...
...number of the Aldine edition dating from 1521 and onward. A book printed by Gutenberg in 1460, and one by Faust in 1462, are both older than any book the Library has hitherto contained. Another book has the date 1489, and there is a very rare edition of Plautus, 1578. The collection contains autographs of Samuel Johnson, John Milton, Racine, Drummond, T. N. Taifourd, and S. T. Coleridge. "Comus, 1645," and "Paradise Lost, 1668," are probably copies of the first edition. The manuscripts in Mr. Sumner's library are said to be very valuable, but they are not yet unpacked...