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Eglin, Raphael · 1584

and metric writers, the thread of discourse is not far different; nor should more than two authors be lectured upon in a week. In the following year, it would be ridiculous to return to the books of the same authors already read, and not rather to continue the subsequent ones.
In the third place, the boys shall take a moderate taste of the Greek language in the inflections of Nouns and Verbs of the New Testament, and in the interpretation of the same, with the addition of the booklet of Durantus on the inflections of nouns and verbs. Finally, they shall exercise style in prose and also in verse: which is, as it were, the law and the matter of this class.
The teacher shall begin the order of reading and examining in this manner. On the days of Lectures, he shall propose the lesson of Syntax and the exposition of the author, both in the morning and in the afternoon, the former read before lunch to be rendered by memory after lunch: the latter, however, with its exposition, before a new lecture is proposed in the same author on the following day. But the method of lecturing on the author shall be this. First, interpretation of the vernacular language shall be used. Secondly, those things which pertain to the part of Grammar lectured upon in each part of the year shall be indicated. Thirdly, the method of the property and variety of the Latin language shall be dictated to the pen from the author's lecture: those things which pertain to morals shall be touched upon while reading. Finally, the exposition of Greek inflections and the New Testament shall follow after the Latin authors at the same hours, namely lectured upon after lunch: but rendered before lunch on the following day, so that the study in Latin is double in proportion to the Greek.
On the days of Repetitions, however, in the morning hours, first what was prescribed in Grammar shall be repeated from memory: Secondly, in that part of the year when simple Syntax is lectured upon, epistles translated from the vernacular into the Latin language shall be corrected. Where, however, figurative Construction is proposed with the quantity of syllables, the boys shall be left to their own talent in composing epistles and themes according to Aphthonius: likewise, they shall restore verses first scattered into order: then with their own Minerva ingenuity/wisdom.