[549] Instit. xi. 2. 18 ff.
[550] Prof. i. 21-30.
[551] Prof. xvi. 13.
[552] Cf. Newman, Idea of a University, p. 127, ‘Memory is the first developed of the mental faculties’, and ff.
[553] Ep. 1119. Cf. Orat. iii, p. 436 (ed. Reiske). It is interesting to compare in this connexion Athenian school records of the classical period, in which there is no evidence that children were beaten, with the mime of Herondas, in which the flogging of a boy is elaborately described.
[554] Confess. i. 8 ff.
[555] Ch. 12.
[556] Cf. also Confess. i. 16, 17.
[557] Cf. Mosella, 85 ff.