SELECTIONS FROM LATIN POETRY FOR REPETITION IN CLASSICAL SCHOOLS. BY THE REV. F. S. ALDHOUSE, M.A. LATE SCHOLAR OF HERTFORD COLLEGE, OXFORD; DUBLIN: SULLIVAN, BROTHERS. PREFACE. THE object of this little work may be very briefly stated. It is a common practice in Schools, and a very excellent practice, to strengthen a boy's memory and at the same time improve his knowledge by calling on him to repeat passages from some classical Author-sometimes in prose as well as in verse, but more frequently in the latter. The advantages of such a system are too evident to need more than a passing remark; a fresh and vigorous memory, a familiar acquaintance with the style of an Author, and a power of reproducing the idioms of the language, at once occur as some of the results of this practice. But it is often the case that some one book is |