Their education
Elizabeth Lewis / The Druids
- Created on 2018-02-06 21:21:24
- Modified on 2018-02-06 21:22:28
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Latin
English
Druides a bello abesse solent neque tributa una cum reliquis pendunt ; militiae vacationem omniumque rerum immunitatem habent . tantis praemiis excitati et sua sponte multi in disciplinam conveniunt et a parentibus propinquisque mittuntur . magnum ibi numerum versuum ediscere dicuntur ; itaque nonnulli viginti annos in disciplina permanent . neque fas esse existimant hos versus litteris mandare , cum in reliquis fere rebus Graecis litteris utantur . id mihi duabus de causis instituisse videntur , quod neque in vulgum disciplinam efferri velint , neque eos , qui discunt , litteris confisos minus memoriae studere . in--primis hoc
volunt persuadere , animas non perire , sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios , atque hoc maxime homines ad virtutem excitari putant metu mortis neglecto . multa praeterea de sideribus atque eorum motu , de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine , de rerum natura , de deorum immortalium vi ac potestate disputant et iuventuti tradunt .
volunt persuadere , animas non perire , sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios , atque hoc maxime homines ad virtutem excitari putant metu mortis neglecto . multa praeterea de sideribus atque eorum motu , de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine , de rerum natura , de deorum immortalium vi ac potestate disputant et iuventuti tradunt .
Druids
are
accustomed
to
be
exempt
from
war
nor
do
they
pay
taxes
together
with
the
others
;
they
have
exemption
from
military
service
and
freedom
from
all
things
.
Encouraged
by
so
many
rewards
and
of
their
own
accord
many
gather
for
training
and
are
sent
by
their
parents
and
relations
.
They
are
said
there
to
learn
by
heart
a
great
number
of
verses
;
and
so
some
spend
twenty
years
in
training
.
Nor
do
they
think
it
right
to
entrust
these
verses
to
writing
,
although
in
most
other
things
they
use
Greek
writing
.
They
seem
to
me
to
have
established
that
for
two
reasons
,
because
they
want
neither
the
learning
to
be
spread
to
the
commons
nor
those
,
who
are
learning
,
relying
on
writing
,
to
pay
less
attention
to
memory
.
They
wish
to
persuade
people
of
this
especially
,
that
souls
do
not
perish
,
but
after
death
they
cross
from
one
to
another
,
and
by
means
of
this
belief
most
of
all
they
think
that
men
are
encouraged
toward
virtue
with
the
fear
of
death
ignored
.
They
discuss
and
teach
the
young
people
many
other
things
about
the
stars
and
their
movement
,
about
the
size
of
the
universe
and
of
the
earth
,
about
the
nature
of
things
and
about
the
power
and
strength
of
the
immortal
gods
.