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  • De pueris instituendis (On Education for Children), probably written about 1509, that emphasized the value of a classical education inspired by Plutarch's On the Education of Children and Quintilian's Institutio oratoria.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • The bordels of boys (pueris alienis adhæseverunt) appear to have been near the Temple.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In an influential work on educational theory, De pueris instituendis (On Education for Children), probably written in 1509 but not published until 1529, Erasmus presented “a Christian humanist reformulation of the classical ideal of a liberal education” (Beert V. V.rstraete, in CWE 26: 393), strongly influenced by Plutarch's On the Education of Children and Quintilian's Institutio oratoria.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • Egritudines autem plurime que pueris eveniunt sunt frigide et humide et eorum febres phlegmatice et plurimum quod vomunt.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Note 102: Canon, 1.1.3, fol. 6vb: Signum autem quod vehementioris istimbre existant est quod neque nausea accidit eis [iuvenibus] in vomitus neque fastidium quemadmodum contingit pueris propter digestive eorum malitiam ….

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Idem responsione ad Aubertum, veratrum nigrum, alias timidum et periculosum vini spiritu etiam et olco commodum sic usui redditur ut etiam pueris tuto administrari possit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quem ut difficilem morbum pueris tradere formidamus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 22: Annales Thuringici breves, ed.G. Waitz, MGH SS 24.40: "Anno milleno bis centeno duodeno/Cum pueris pueri currunt loca sancta tueri." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • To this opinion of Galen, almost all the Greeks and Arabians subscribe, the Latins new and old, internae, tenebrae offuscant animum, ut externae nocent pueris, as children are affrighted in the dark, so are melancholy men at all times, [2665] as having the inward cause with them, and still carrying it about.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • There was a wise old heathen once, who said, “Maxima debetur pueris reverentia” — The greatest reverence is due to children; that is, that grown people should never say or do anything wrong before children, lest they should set them a bad example. —

    The Water Babies 2007

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