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 Roman children who had poor parents, couldn't afford to have private teachers and stayed uneducated. The private teacher was always treated well in the rich families, because there weren't many educated people. The children used a stick similar to a toothpick and wrote with it on waxboards. They had their waxplates on their lap. At the end of the pencil was something like a rubber. When the children fooled around, they got a clout.
I know a few words which the children could have probably written like PILUM = spear, SPATHA = short sword, FIBULA = safety pin and PATER FAMILIAS = Father of the family. In school we played romans aswell. Mrs Loftus was our teacher. We learned a few numbers (1 to 52). We wrote on waxboards, too. (Extract from Britta's report) |
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GAUDEAMUS IGITUR SUVENES DUM SUMUS POST JUCUNDAM JUVENTUTEM POST MOLESTAM SENCTUTEM NOS HABEBIT HUMUS. All that I have written, was written by everyone on a TABULA RASA (empty board). On top of it was my name "GRATIA". (Extract from Annica's report) SALVE MAGISTER!: Greetings, teacher! Examples for latin words Latin numbers the numbers from 1 to 10 look like this: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X the numbers 20, 30, 40 and 50 you write like that in Latin: XX, XXX, XL, L Roman children practising sport (Relief of a sarcophagus) |
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No child was allowed to speak unasked or he got a clout. In our class no child was hit. And this was just right because otherwise some of them would have looked pretty bad after school! We translated some words from the adverts into German, learned roman numbers and sang a roman song: These are the words: