STNONTMOUS TERMS. 



103 



his reader by an elegant and mafterly difcrimination of the va- 

 rious fentitnents then prevalent in the minds of Otho and his 

 followers, but furnifhes him alfo with fome curious grammati- 

 cal fads, 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 refped, 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 refped to difcere. Thus, Seneca fays, " Ho- 

 " mines dum docent, difcunt *." — " Itaque not facile eft inve- 

 nire qui quod fciat ipfe, alteri non tradat. Ita non folum 

 ad difcendum propenfi fumus, verum etiam ad docendum f ." 

 That docere is applicable to all who receive inftrudion, whether 

 ignorant, or in a certain degree previoufly inftruded, appears 

 from the following paflages : " Quid nunc te Afine literas 

 "■ doceamf Non opus eft verbis fed fuftibus %." 



Hoc quoque te manet, ut pueros elementa docentem, 

 Occupet extremis in vicis balba fenedus §. 



In the paflages now quoted, docere fuppofes the minds receiving 



the information to be completely ignorant ; but in the three that 



follow, they appear to be in a ftate diredly contrary. " Et 



1 docebo fus (ut aiunt) oratorem eum, quern qiium Catulus 



nuper audiffet, fcenum alios aiebat effe oportere ||." 



Plura recognofces, pauca docendus eris **. 



" Quid 



* Epirt.7- . § Hor. Ep. i. 20. i 7 . 



f Cic. de Fin. 104. a. || Cic. de Or. 2. 233. 



t Cic. in Pif. 95.^ ** 0vi d. Fail. 4. 418. 



