Monday, August 29, 2022

 

How Do You Put Up With It?

J.P.V.D. Balsdon, Romans and Aliens (London: Duckworth, 1979), pp. 28-29, with note on p. 265:
After he had left Domitian's Rome in a huff, Florus set up as a schoolmaster at Tarraco in Spain. 'What a terrible shame,' his friends from Baetica said; 'how do you put up with sitting in school and teaching boys?' Florus answered that it had been hard at first, but that he had become a dedicated teacher.36

36. ... Florus, Virgilius Orator 3, 2-3.
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