From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jan 13 07:16:01 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id g0DFFxn99134 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 07:15:59 -0800 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Jan 13 07:15:59 2002 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW01.12) with ESMTP id g0DFFw3F030015 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 07:15:58 -0800 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-138.look.ca [216.154.51.138]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA81567 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:15:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020113101645.027e8370@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:19:21 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: Re: Query from the Latin List In-Reply-To: <001501c19c2c$05f01a00$7438ef9b@al40> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed That one (much bandied about by homeschoolers and folks who lead workshops at the grade school level) is usually attributed to Montaigne citing Cicero, but I've never been able to find it online. dm At 02:15 PM 13/01/2002 +0200, you wrote: >I paste below an as yet unanswered query from the Latin list: > >From: >To: >Subject: [LATIN] Looking for source of Cicero quotation >Date: 11 January 2002 16:58 > >Hi, all. > Can someone cite for me the source of this quote? > > The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who >want to learn'.--Cicero > > Thanks, all. > > > Keith > >-- >Terrence Lockyer >Johannesburg, South Africa ================================================================ David Meadows Libertas inaestimabilis res est. ================================================================ .