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This does not appear in Walther's Proverbia. I ran Discere through Seneca's letters in our Latin texts database. The closest I could find is: gaudeo discere ut doceam in letter 6 section 4 line 3. Tom Izbicki At 12:23 PM 2/12/2001 +0000, you wrote: >Dear all: > >I came across this little 'saying' in one of Grosseteste's unedited >works. As clever as I think he was, this is probably a citation and >not his own. It follows a short citation from Seneca's Epist. >morales ad Lucillum 1.6. Sounds to me like a gloss (hey, you >poetry periti: does it scan???--I am useless with latin verse), but I >have no idea where to look for this kind of thing: > >Discere namque ut scias, curiositatis est; discere ut sciaris, >uanitatis est; discere ut tibi prospicias, prudencie <est>; et discere >ut doceas, pietatis est. > >Does this ring a bell with anyone? > >Cheers >Jim > >===================================================================== > >Dr James R Ginther >Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies >University of Leeds >Leeds LS2 9JT UK > >E-mail: [log in to unmask] >Phone: +44.113.233.6749 >Fax: +44.113.233.3654 > -=*=- >http://www.leeds.ac.uk/trs/ (Theology and Religious Studies, Leeds) >http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cms/ (Centre for Medieval Studies, Leeds) >http://www.grosseteste.com/ (The Electronic Grosseteste) >==================================================================== >"First up ther wor nobbut God. An 'e said, "Ee, lad, turn th'bloody >light on." -The Yorkshire Gensesis