Esposito, Il fragmentum Grenfellianum (Eikasmos 12) p. 73-83 (Esposito, Elena) + AfP 52 (2006), p. 199-200 no. 2 (Gonis, Nikolaos)
= P. Grenf. 1 1 (Grenfell, Bernard P.)
= P. Lond. Lit. 50 (Milne, H. J. M.)
= Cunningham, Herodae Mimiambi p. 36-38 no. 1 (Cunningham, I. C.)
= P. Dryton 50 (Vandorpe, Katelijn)
The classics teaching at that school was excellent, but somehow the classroom routine failed to satisfy, and I formed a resolution which I have always regarded as crucial. I decided that every day I would read privately a quota of Greek or Latin, one hundred lines of verse or four pages of prose in an Oxford Text. I started with four works, taking them in daily rotation: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Xenophon's Hellenica, the poems of Catullus, and Cicero's Catilinarian speeches. The reading was conducted on a system of my own devising. It proceeded sentence by sentence, with a dictionary and usually a translation and/or commentary for checking. The sentence would then be read aloud. At the end of a paragraph or other appropriate stopping-place the sentences covered would be read aloud consectutively. At the end of the day's ration I would traverse its contents in a mental review. I have recommended this method to many students, but I am not aware of any that adopted it. For me it worked like a charm. Naturally, the daily quotas were increased as time went on.