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Confessio Grammatici1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

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καὶ μισθοὺς αἰτεῖτε, διδάσκαλοι. ‘You schoolmasters actually expect a salary as well! What an ungrateful lot you are!’ Well, I must allow there is something in Strato's jibe. It is a pleasant life, and after thirty years spent in teaching boys and undergraduates from thirteen to about twenty-two, I can say I have enjoyed it all; and certainly, like Solon, I continually learn new lessons as I grow older. I wish I could justify my reading this paper by claiming that I had something to offer that would fulfil that one of the objects of our Association that is described as ‘to improve the practice of classical teaching’. But I fear no such illumination is likely to reward my audience. Still, another of our Association's objects is ‘to create opportunities for intercourse among lovers of classical learning’, and that your kind invitation to me has provided.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1960

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References

page 77 note 1 ‘Poesis and Mimesis’ in Essays and Addresses, pp. 115ff.Google Scholar

page 78 note 1 xii (1922), pp. 192 ff.