from teachers but from ordinary speakers, and in their hearing I, too, began to express whatever I felt. It is clear enough from this that a free curiosity has greater force in learning these things than has the compulsion of fear. But, the flow of the former is restrained by the latter, under Thy laws, O God, under Thy laws; from the rods of schoolmasters right up to the trials of the martyrs; under Thy laws which are able to compound a healthful bitterness that calls us back to Thee and away from