_liberaliter, ingenue, bene educari_—to receive a liberal education.
_severa disciplina contineri_—to be brought up under strict discipline.
_aliquem ad humanitatem informare_ or _instituere_—to teach a person
refinement.
_mores alicuius corrigere_—to improve a person.
_in viam reducere aliquem_—to bring a person back to the right way.
_in viam redire_—to return to the right way.
_litteras discere ab aliquo_—to be educated by some one.
_institui_ or _erudiri ab aliquo_—to receive instruction from some one.
_disciplina alicuius uti, magistro aliquo uti_—to receive instruction
from some one.
_e disciplina alicuius profectum esse_—to be brought up in some one's
school.
_puerum alicui erudiendum_ or _in disciplinam tradere_—to entrust a
child to the tuition of...
_operam dare_ or simply _se dare alicui, se tradere in disciplinam
alicuius, se conferre, se applicare ad aliquem_—to become a pupil,
disciple of some one.
_multum esse cum aliquo_ (Fam. 16. 21)—to enjoy close intercourse
with... (of master and pupil).
_ludus (discendi_ or _litterarum_)—an elementary school.
_schola_—a school for higher education.
_scholam frequentare_—to go to a school.
_disciplina (institutio) puerilis_ (not _liberorum_)—the teaching of
children.
_pueros elementa (prima) docere_—to teach children the rudiments.
_primis litterarum elementis imbui_—to receive the first elements of a
liberal education.
_doctrinae, quibus aetas puerilis impertiri solet_ (Nep. Att. 1.
2)—the usual subjects taught to boys.
_artes, quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem informari solet_—the
usual subjects taught to boys.
_erudire aliquem artibus, litteris_ (but _erudire aliquem in iure
civili, in re militari_)—to teach some one letters.
_natum, factum esse ad aliquid (faciendum)_—to be born for a thing,
endowed by nature for it.
_adversante et repugnante natura_ or _invitā Minervā (ut aiunt)
aliquid facere_ (Off. 1. 31. 110)—to do a thing which is not one's
vocation, which goes against the grain.
_crassa_ or _pingui Minerva_ (proverb.)—with no intelligence or skill.
_calcaria alicui adhibere, admovere; stimulos alicui admovere_—to
spur, urge a person on.
_frenos adhibere alicui_—to restrain some one.
_bona indole_ (always in sing.) _praeditum esse_—to be gifted,
talented (not _praeditum esse_ by itself).
_ingenio valere_—to be gifted, talented.
_summo ingenio praeditum esse_—to possess rich mental endowments.
_in aliqua re progressus facere, proficere, progredi_—to make progress
in a subject.
_aliquid efficere, consequi in aliqua re_ (De Or. 1. 33. 152)—to
obtain a result in something.
_adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit_ or
_alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt_—he is a young man of great
promise.
_adulescens bonae (egregiae) spei_—a promising youth.
_magna est exspectatio ingenii tui_—we expect a great deal from a man
of your calibre.
_desudare in scholae umbra_ or _umbraculis_[1]—to exert oneself in the
schools.
_genus vitae (vivendi)_ or _aetatis degendae deligere_[2]—to choose a
career, profession.
_viam vitae ingredi_ (Flacc. 42. 105)—to enter upon a career.
_philosophiam, medicinam profiteri_—to be a philosopher, physician by
profession.
_se philosophum, medicum (esse) profiteri_—to be a philosopher,
physician by profession.
_qui ista profitentur_—men of that profession.
[1] Cf. _umbra, umbracula (-orum)_, and _umbratilis_ (_vid._ vii. 2,
_vita umbratilis_), used of the retired life of a savant as opposed to
_sol, lux fori_[TR1] or _forensis_. Cf. De Legg. 3. 6. 14 _Phalereus
ille Demetrius mirabiliter doctrinam ex umbraculis eruditorum otioque
non modo in solem atque in pulverem sed in ipsum discrimen aciemque
produxit._
[2] The _locus classicus_ on the choice of a profession is De Officiis
1. 32. 115-122.
[TR1] Transcriber's Note: the original text indeed has _sol, lux ori_.
But that is wrong as can be seen from the French edition using _sol,
lux fori_.