Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children
Some sit
at a Table, and write, 7.
he mendeth their Faults, 8.
Quidam sedent
ad Mensam, & scribunt, 7.
ipse corrigit Mendas, 8.
Some stand and rehearse
things committed
to memory, 9.
Quidam stant, & recitant
mandata memoriæ, 9.
Some talk together, 10.
and behave themselves
wantonly and carelessly;
these are chastised
with a _Ferrula_. 11.
and a _Rod_, 12.
Quidam confabulantur, 10.
ac gerunt se
petulantes, & negligentes;
hi castigantur
_Ferulâ_ (baculo), 11.
& _Virgâ_, 12.
XCIX.
The Study.
Museum.
[Illustration]
The _Study_, 1.
is a place where a Student, 2.
apart from Men,
sitteth alone,
addicted to his _Studies_,
_Museum_, 1.
est locus ubi Studiosus, 2.
secretus ab Hominibus,
sedet solus
deditus _Studiis_,
whilst he readeth _Books_, 3.
which being within his reach
he layeth open upon a _Desk_, 4.
dum lectitat _Libros_, 3.
quos penes se
& exponit super _Pluteum_, 4.
and picketh all the best things
out of them
into his own _Manual_, 5.
& excerpit optima quæque
ex illis
in _Manuale_ suum, 5.
or marketh them in them
with a _Dash_, 6.
or a _little Star_, 7.
in the _Margent_.
notat in illis
_Liturâ_, 6.
vel _Asterisco_, 7.
ad _Margiem_.
Being to sit up late,
he setteth a _Candle_, 8.
on a _Candlestick_, 9.
which is snuffed with _Snuffers_, 10.
Lucubraturus,
elevat _Lychnum_ (_Canelam_), 8.
in _Candelabra_, 9.
qui emungitur _Emunctorio_, 10.
before the Candle,
he placeth a _Screen_, 11.
which is green, that it may not
hurt his eye-sight;
ante Lynchum
collocat _Umbraculum_, 11.
quod viride est, ne
hebetet oculorum aciem;
richer Persons use a _Taper_,
for a _Tallow-candle_
stinketh and smoaketh.
opulentiores utuntur _Cereo_
nam _Candela sebacea_
fœtet & fumigat.
A _Letter_, 12. is wrapped up,
writ upon, 13.
and sealed, 14.
_Epistola_, 12. complicatur,
inscribitur, 13.
& obsignatur, 14.
Going abroad by night,
he maketh use of a _Lanthorn_, 15.
or a _Torch_, 16.
Prodiens noctu
utitur _Lanterna_, 15.
vel _Face_, 16.
C.
Arts belonging to Speech.
Artes Sermones.
[Illustration]
_Grammar_, 1.
is conversant about _Letters_, 2.
of which it maketh
_Words_, 3.
_Grammatica_, 1.
versatur circa _Literas_, 2.
ex quibus componit
_Voces_, _verba_, 3.
and teacheth how
to utter, write, 4.
put together and part
them rightly.
docetque
eloqui, scribere, 4.
construere, distinguere
(interpungere) eas recte.
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