Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.