SCHOOLMASTERS AND COWS.
TO THE EDITOP. OF ■ "THE KRESS." -Sir,—ln to-day's issue of "Tho Press" "Scholasticus" gives the translations of pecus, pecoris (N) . cattle, pecus, pecttdis, F, a. single head, of cattle, from "Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer." T looked upan old Latin English Dictionary by Ainsw.orth, ancT I found that pecus (neuter), while properly arid. most, usually'a. flock of sheep, is used also by Virgil. Phacdrus, Horace; Catullus, and Ovid as meaning also a .".single, sheep, other cattle, any brut© whatsoever, a. brutish person, and even' slave*. - Pecus (peeudis) -is used in Virgil, Cicero, Claudius, and Lucretius as • meaning a sheep, any sort of cattle," any brute, or a brutish, man.—Yours, etc., '".'"' ■: BRYNDWR.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18419, 27 June 1925, Page 17
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113SCHOOLMASTERS AND COWS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18419, 27 June 1925, Page 17
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