Tom:
Thanks for checking those sources. I had checked the letters of
Seneca on the Ad Fontes Academy web-site, but they don't have
the entire collection on-line yet, so your search proved helpful. The
match you found is in fact the letter Grosseteste cites, which
makes me think it is a gloss of some sort.
Maybe it is his own gloss. I like the saying, as it aptly descrbes
the various kinds of students that inhabited the medieval university,
while at the same time reflecting the attitude of a teaching master.
If no great remuneration as a teacher, at least there's piety...;-)
Cheers
Jim
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Dr James R Ginther
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University of Leeds
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light on." -The Yorkshire Gensesis
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