THOS. COX.

[Footnote 3: See Latham's _English Language_, 2nd edition, p. 211]

_Construe and translate_.--In my school-days, verbal rendering from

Latin or Greek into English was _construing_; the same on paper was

_translating_. Whence this difference of phrase?

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