SYNONY MOUS TERMS. 103 
his reader by an elegant and matfterly difcrimination of the va- 
rious fentiments then prevalent in the minds of Oruo-and his 
followers, but furnifhes him alfo with fome curious grammati- 
cal facts, which few other writers had ingenuity to perceive. 
DocERE, ERUDIRE, INSTITUERE, IMBUERE, agree in deno- 
ting a change produced upon the mind by communication from 
others, but differ in refpect, either to the ftate of that mind to 
which the communication is made, or to the means employed 
in making it. Docere, which, according to VARRO, comes 
from do, fignifies to give information ‘to thofe who need it, 
without reference to their previous knowledge, and is a corre- 
lative term in refpeét to difeere. ‘Thus, Seneca fays, “ Ho- 
“ mines dum docent, difcunt *.”,—“ Itaque not facile eft inve- 
“ nire qui quod {ciat ipfe, alteri non tradat. Ita non folum 
“ad difcendum propenfi fumus, verum etiam ad docendum +.” 
That docere is applicable to all who receive inftru€tion, whether 
ignorant, or in a certain degree previoufly inftructed, appears 
from the following paflages: “ Quid nunc te Afine literas 
““ doceam ? Non opus eft verbis fed fuftibus +.” 
Hoc quoque te manet, ut pueros elementa docentem, 
Occupet extremis in vicis balba fenectus §. 
In the paflages now quoted, docere fuppofes the minds receiving 
the information to be completely ignorant ; butin the three that 
follow, they: appear to be ina ftate dire@tly contrary. “ Et 
-“ docebo fas (ut aiunt) oratorem eum, quem quum Catutus 
“ nuper audiffet, foenum alios aiebat effe oportere ||.”” 
Plura recognofces, pauca docendus eris **, 
* Quid 
* Epift. 7. j § Hor. Ep. 1. 20. 17. 
+ Circ. de Fin. 104. a. || Cre. de Or. 2. 233, 
$ Cie. mPif'gs.a. . ** Ovip. Faft. 4. 418. 
