quarrere

Updated: July 20, 2026

"Did you never hear, for all so long as you war in Cambridge, of a nate little spot in Greece called the groves of Academus? "'Inter lucos Academi quarrere verum. "What was Plato himself but a hedge schoolmaster? and, with humble submission, it casts no slur on an Irish tacher to be compared to him, I think. You forget also, sir, that the Dhruids taught under their oaks: eh?"

William Carleton - The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three