I am somewhat hampered by having never read 'Scoop' - but certainly it is interesting that the child is translating the second eclogue which gave centuries of school masters moral dilemmas because of the subject matter (I note her remark: 'but I couldn't quite make sense of that bit '). I have found again and again references to this pedagogical problem - I believe it was Erasmus who suggested that the best wat to get through it was to really hit grammar hard and in its minutiae when reading the second eclogue. Helen COB
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