Antangil: Page 133

[English Translation]

                   of Antangil. Book four.             123[1]

familiar & common to all, making no distinction between them except by the virtue & merit of each, the least being as much there as the greatest Lord.
       They give to each a sword & a dagger, & in addition to those of the lowest age a small golden javelin. To those of the second & third, they are given pikes, arquebuses & light shields, in order to shape & exercise them, which weapons are locked up in three large rooms outside the Academy adjoining the portal, where are the Correctors & Governors, being given charge to hire furbishers, who keep them clean & polished. This has been thus ordered, for fear that when some mutiny or quarrel occurs, the youth, quick to the hand & rash, will seize these weapons to offend one another.

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Of the sciences & arts which are taught to them according to their age.

                                    CHAP. VII.

ALBEIT that it is the custom in many nations to first teach languages to the
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1. Page number given as "123", but should read "133"

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