Note 158 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Latin was the common language of schools also before and at the Reformation. In the “Monita Pædagogica ad suos Discipulos” of Lily, the grammarian, and first master of Paul’s, is the following admonition:—
“Et quoties loqueris, memor esto loquare Latine, Et veluti scopulos barbara verba fuge.”