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Eglin, Raphael · 1584

and of the Author shall be proposed accordingly on the days of lectures. The interpretation shall be repeated two or three times by the boys in the presence of the teacher. They shall commit to memory at home the lecture of both Grammar and the author, and the former, if it was read before lunch, they shall render after lunch: but the latter they shall recite with exposition before the new lecture of the following day. On the days of Repetitions, in the hours before noon, they shall repeat what was committed to memory in Grammar, and shall exhibit short sentences translated from the vernacular into the Latin language: first with only the cases varied, according to the chrias rhetorical exercises/anecdotes of Camerarius, then with whole periods of sentences exhibited and epistles taken from the lectures. As often as it happens that they complete some part of a written work (such as an epistle or a colloquy), the students shall repeat the lessons of the author from memory: they will proceed in this manner, if they clearly digest the lesson heard, reviewed, rendered during the exposition, recited by memory, and finally repeated during the reviews. We strictly command that this also be observed in the following class. Furthermore, on the Calends of each month, a topic shall be proposed to be translated into the vernacular language concerning the dignity of place, according to which each best student shall occupy the first place.
Furthermore, for the highest and principal class, which is that of the Teacher, in the first part of the year, Latin Syntax shall be proposed, first the simple, then the figurative with the quantity of syllables and Rhetorical tropes from Talaeus, or the booklet of Coelius Secundus on the whole art of disputing. The authors, however, in the first section of the year, at the morning hours, shall be proposed as follows: first, one book of Cicero's Epistles: which being completed, in the other part of the year one of the Offices shall succeed, and third, as much as can be done, Sallust. After lunch, however, in the same sections of the year, first one of the Comedies of Terence, or the Epistles of Horace, secondly one book of Virgil, and finally one of the Odes of Horace shall be lectured upon. However, other authors of Latinity may be correctly substituted for these, provided that between the prose...