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Rh by heart. As of Virgil's Aeneid, so also of the Odyssey and Iliad, the whole cannot be studied. But care should be taken that the selections are such as to give the pupils a clear view of the whole work. The translation of Homer must be simple and natural. Anglo-Saxon words ought to prevail. It has been previously stated, and it is self-evident, that the teaching of antiquities, descriptions of the life and manners of the heroic age, should accompany the reading of Homer.

It is not necessary to dwell on the, and their importance for the higher classes of the literary curriculum. The Ratio does not mention them in particular: but Sophocles and Euripides are recommended by Jouvancy, and they were read in the colleges, as appears from the catalogues given on previous pages. – The amount of the world's best literature, with which the student in the Jesuit Colleges was made acquainted, is certainly not insignificant.