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"I appale to this gintleman," said Father Peter turning to the stranger. "Are you a classical scholar, sir that is, do you understand Latin?" "What kind?" demanded the stranger dryly. "If you have read Corderius's Colloquies, it will do," said Father Peter. "No, sir," replied the other, "but I have read his commentator, Bardolphus, who wrote a treatise upon the Nasus Rubricundus of the ancients."
Lilly's Latin Grammar was universally used, and was learned by rote, as by George Borrow, in the last century. See Lavengro for details. Conversation books, Sententiae Pueriles, were in use; with easy books, such as Corderius's Colloquia, and so on, for boys were taught to SPEAK Latin, the common language of the educated in Europe.
"Why, sir, there's a phrase in Corderius's Colloquies that I could condimn you from, if I had the book."
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