[24] Διδασκάλιον is the thing learned.
[25] vi. 27.
[26] The Greek form of our word school, though in common use, meant leisure, and only passed through its application to the leisurely discussions of philosophers into its new and opposite sense. There is some difficulty about the word παιδαγωγεῖον, which some have imagined to be a waiting-room for the pædagogue slaves—absurdly enough. It is probably a mere synonym for the schoolroom.
[27] Grasberger, ii. 224.
[ὦ φίλε παῖ] Θεωδώρηον μάθε τάξιν Ὁμήρου
ὄφρα δαεὶς πάσης μέτρον ἔχῃς σοφίας.
[29] All our evidence, with every possible surmise about it, may be found in Welcker’s “Kleine Schriften,” vol. i. p. 371 sq.
[30] This assumption may perhaps hardly seem surprising when it still prevails among the English public as regards girls. Accordingly, a vast amount of time and brain power is wasted in the endeavor to make them play and sing, though nature has peremptorily precluded it in most cases.
[31] The objections of the Eleatics and Platonists to the moral side of Homer and the other epic poets will be discussed in connection with the philosophic attempts at reform in higher education.