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Some hold that boys should not be taught to
read till they are seven years old, that being the
earliest age at which they can derive profit from
instruction and endure the strain of learning. Most
of them attribute this view to Hesiod, at least such
as lived before the time of Aristophanes the grammarian, who was the first to deny that the Hypothecae,1 in which this opinion is expressed, was the
work of that poet.
1 Admonitions, a lost didactic poem. Aristophanes of Byzantium, 257–180 B.C., the famous Alexandrian critic.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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