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06-22-2015, 11:14 AM
chrestomathy
\ kres-TOM-uh-thee \ , noun;
1.
A collection of selected literary passages.
Quotes:
I had learned to read Sanscrit and to translate easy passages in the chrestomathy , and devoted myself with special zeal to the study of the Latin grammar and prosody.
-- Georg Ebers, The Story of My Life from Childhood to Manhood
This little chrestomathy preserves almost the only words of Atticus to have survived from antiquity.
-- Peter White, Cicero in Letters
Origin:
Chrestomathy literally means "useful to learn" in Greek, from the roots chres- meaning "to use" and math- meaning "to learn."
\ kres-TOM-uh-thee \ , noun;
1.
A collection of selected literary passages.
Quotes:
I had learned to read Sanscrit and to translate easy passages in the chrestomathy , and devoted myself with special zeal to the study of the Latin grammar and prosody.
-- Georg Ebers, The Story of My Life from Childhood to Manhood
This little chrestomathy preserves almost the only words of Atticus to have survived from antiquity.
-- Peter White, Cicero in Letters
Origin:
Chrestomathy literally means "useful to learn" in Greek, from the roots chres- meaning "to use" and math- meaning "to learn."