Inara was just practicing her religion ...

POSTED BY: Zoot
UPDATED: Thursday, July 21, 2005 08:35
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:


Plus, he once described himself as having "small Latin, less Greek," which would probably be more telling if I knew exactly what was a "normal" middle-class education back then.

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Well, the primary education at grammar schools of the time was exactly that – Latin Grammar – from his clear inability to parse, it would seem that either Billy didn’t go or didn’t pay much attention … English was taught only as an after-thought.

But we do have to remember that earlier medieval Latin was insane and not at all like the classical stuff we all know and love ….

Greek was much rarer – tending to be taught by tutors to the upper echelons of society …

It would not be until the glory days of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries that people like Robert Graves would be spending their school days composing perfect epigrams in ancient Greek, before writing an exact imitation of a Ciceronian speech in classical Latin ... (*sighs fondly at thought* - See “Goodbye to All That” by Mr Graves)


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