Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
TITANUM suboles, ut ferunt, nuper Scholis
Veteribus praesidebat argentaria,
non mas profecto nec magna altitudine,
neque dum ferox, sed mitium mitissima,
sed disciplinae exemplum et ingens et bonum
eius modi cui quale nunc scholis genus
est eruditum posse uix fidem daret
tot res in uno capite commemorarier.
aestas enim hanc tantummodo quinquagesima
non uidit alto sepositam palatio
transtra inter capreolosque sub fastigio
seruire sex hominibus quos fisci labor
urgebat, et mox plura habere cognita
quoquam: ita pol, et si quando quaesitum foret
Quonam hoc? Vbi illud? Ista res unde exiit?
ab hac petendum cuncta, quae minima mora,
uel quindecim si condita obsoleuerant
annos, recludit omnia omnium memor.
moris apud Athenienses hoc erat ut numquam uel rarissime ciuitas cuiquam permitteretur qui non usque a puero adepturus esset. sed unus praecipue memoratus est Pasion quidam. is, qui natu non Atheniensis erat, tamen, quod tam fideliter et feliciter rem pecuniariam magistri curauerat aliisque bene fecerat ciuibus, in ciuitatem Atheniensium aetate matura liberatus est. rarius apud nos hic traditur quem hodie proponimus honor; quo tamen hanc honore dignissimam esse cum non dubitet quisquam, praesertim eorum qui constantiam iucunditatem fidem eius in munus siue actuarii exercendum siue familiae nostratis ACUAntur iam diu cognouerunt, in academicam nostram liberare ciuitatem iuvat,
SHEILA DORIS OVERHILL
IT was a giant, so they say, who lately attended the Treasurer's desk in the Old Schools: not so much a giant as a giantess, it is true, and not a very tall one, nor indeed a ferocious one, but the very gentlest of giants, and a gigantically good example of learning well aimed, a very prodigy of memory.
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