The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1889-02-15

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discomfort must have caused Young
scholar to see '.such house" in lite
domum. In order to realize the Sc
rles OF contusions contained in the fol-
lowing translation, the reader must turn
10 llorace's ''Odes, l. xvi Is ct seq. We
will take the words i'll the approved
crib fashion: Prometheus (Prometheus)
fertur brings coactus addere (an un-
willing adder principi Limo Ito Prince
Linus: particulum "a part desectam
follows HIM undique lover the waves
ct (andl vim Il may wish apposuisse
to have placed insani laoni (the mad
lion nostro stomacho (in our stomach)
Anslomainia crops up here, ''addere'
being translated by ladder" ''To make
Il treaty with joyful Greeks" is pleas
ing performance, but does not fairly
represent "Argolicas fadare latebras,"
even though fTdus is treaty and lac
tus is joyful.
Personal preference must have made
a young grammarian write the ''pota-
tive mood in place OF the usual form,
'optative: and recent potation must be
held accountable for the remark, 1.-The
opta.ive mood is mood in IL verb
when every body knows You have done
anything" There is lack of '.lucidi-
tv'' i'll this statement \ kindred
preference, coupled with association of
words (fruor and vescor occurring In
the same rule), led Il boy to write,
truly always feed rs the English of
''vere fruor semper:: while such asso-
citation, apart from personal preference,
drove Il youth TO utter Emmanuel us
the English of the Latin word victor
and another to define dependent sem
tence us lone that hangs from Its
clause the pun was unintentional.
So another defines "Republican'' us
SINNER less from political prejudice
than from imperfect remembrance of
Scriptural language: and chubby
faced chorister altered Millions ..full-
voiced choir" to ''full- faced CHOIR A
similar effect of association of words
may be traced in the reply to the ques-
tion rs to the essential feature of Eng
lish verse: ''Quantity' had been stated
TO be important in Latin verse; equal
lty naturally suggested itself as of
corresponding import in English. May
this authority bear that in mind when
he becomes poet.
The mind Of man loves to substitute
something ineligible for that which
is unintelligible, just as sailors have
changed "Bellerophon," which had for
them 40 meaning, into ''Bully Ruffian,"
which conveyed definite idea. So a
boy, seeing no sense in the word
'ycleped,' makes Milton state that sin
heaven yelped Euphrosyne.' The same
tendency urged another to say, ''Find
out some uncouth SWELL" instead of the
usual reading, ''cell." \ third describ-
ed some one as "a man three feet high"
1t appeared upon inquiry that this
person had been called by master Il
''freebooter this word conveying no
idea. had been altered by the boy to
'.three- footer,': and this had by him
been expressed more eloquently in
words quoted above. This dwarf may
have belonged to a people referred to
in passage. 'trepidabat populus," 'the
people was three footed" Painful re-
collections must have led another to
describe Il weeping birch" as "a birch
that makes YOU weep, while expert
ences of another kind made his friend
define ':eating cares us ..troubles be-
cause YOU are tired of eating the tri-
umyirate being completed by one who
said that spoilers hand" meant 'fa-
theirs hand, because he spoils You = if
so, how wise in any boy TO 'tremble"
and shrink from its corrupting intlu-
cnce ,
Franchise proved Il stumbling block
ito some ona defined it us "anything
belonging to the French people, while
another states it to be ..sort of scent"
The latter scholar must have been
thinking of Frangipanni-it that be
the WAY to spell spell the unfamiliar
word. There was some confusion in
the mind of one who, being asked to
state what he knew of Wesley, wrote,
Wesley was the founder of the Wes-
leyan Chapel, who WAS afterward call
cd Lord Wellington: Il monument was
erected to him in Hyde Park. but ii
has been taken down lately. The
mention of one great name suggests
others. Luther introduced Christi
anitv Il thousand wears ago: his birth
dav was in November. 1883. He was
once Il pope: he lived in the time of
the Rebellion of Worms. Socrates
was no use at fighting; he was very
ugly: he had Il fiat nose: his eyes
stuck out: he destroyed some statues,
and had to drink shamrock" Being
asked to give the name of the great
est living poet one boy wrote, Homer.
whose poems are the best, as stated in
Question V" On turning to that
question, We find the words, What po-
ct was wiser than Homer? What po-