7. Compare the difficulties involved in learning to read Greek (Fig. 6) and Latin (21). Either and English.
8. What type of higher educational advantages does the selection from Horace (22) indicate as prevailing in Roman cities? Compare with present- day advanced education.
9. What do Martial's Epigrams to the Roman schoolmasters (23 a-b) indicate as to the nature of the schools, school discipline, and social status of the Roman primary teacher?
10. Do the selections from Cicero (24) and Quintilian (25) satisfy you that oratory was a sufficiently broad idea for the higher education of youths under the Empire? Why?
11. What does the decree of Constantine (26) indicate as to the social status of the higher teachers under the Empire?
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