FARRAND'S COURSE OF LATIN STUDIES. PART I CORDERII COLLOQUIA SELECTA, &c. COLL. I. DIALOGUE I. WHAT are you doing? I am repeating by myself. What are you repeating? The task which the master set us to-day. Do you retain IT in memory? So I think. Let us repeat together, thus each of us will say the better before the master. Begin you then, who have challenged me. B any bad thing; let him hear, if he will, our dis course. You say very well, let us withdraw somewhere into a corner, lest any one should disturb us. DIALOGUE IV. It doth not become us to idle, or prate here, whilst the master is expected. What say you? it doth not become; nay, we must not, unless we would be whipped. Do you hear me then, whilst I say my lesson, I will hear you afterwards. Come, say away. Do I not retain IT? Not yet well enough, read it over once and again. I will do so. Do you retain IT now? I think so; I will make trial, if you will hear me. Come,say away, you have said all well. DIALOGUE V. Why do you not write? Because it doth not please ME. But the master bade you. I know IT, but I have something to read first; besides, I have nothing that I can write now. A. O si velles scribere mihi! B. Quidnam? A. Habeo præceptoris dictata describenda. B. Quæ dictata? A. In Ciceronis episto las. B. Libenter describam tibi, sed expecta crastinum diem. A. Expectabo igitur, sed ne fallas, quæso. B. Non fallam. COLL. VI. A. Visne describere prælectionem mihi? B. Cur non scripsisti? A. Quia fui occupatus hesterno die. B. Accipe meum librum et describe. A. Non ignoras me scribere lentiùs, et tu descripseris totam citiùs quàm ego quatuor aut quinque versiculos. B. Quære alium scriptorem tibi, non possum dare operam tibi nunc. A. Cur non? B. Est mihi aliud negotium, idemque pernecessari um. A. Nolo urgere, nec possum quidem, sed saltem commoda tuum codicem. B. Accipe, utere ut libet, modò ne abutare. A. Est nilil quod verearis hic. |