YOUNG MEN.

Also by the Same Author;

ON

THE NATURE

OF

DIVINE AGENCY,

In Reference to the Inspiration of the Scriptures; the Mission of Christ; the Formation of Christian Virtues; and its Practical Bearings.

OR,

AN APPEAL

TO

THE SEVERAL CLASSES OF SOCIETY

IN THEIR BEHALF.

"Hæc dignitas, hæ vires, magno semper lectorum juvenum
globo circumdari, in pace decus, in bello præsidium."

TACITUS DE GERMAN.

BY THE

REV. STEPHEN DAVIES, B.C.L.

OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND CURATE OF BOW

BRICKHILL, BUCKS.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY;

AND L. AND G. SEELEY, 169, FLEET STREET.

1838.

359.

Preliminary remarks-Attention to young men an
object of universal solicitude-Chaldeans-Per-
sians— Grecians-Everything intended as a sti-
mulus to them-Pythagoras-Herodotus-Thu-
cydides Pericles-Lycurgus-Process of Educa-
tion at Sparta-The Ephori-Impressed upon all
their institutions-Public and private-Timo-
theus and the Ephori-Solon-Process of educa-
tion at Athens-At eighteen admitted among the
Ephebi-Oaths required to be taken-Privilege
till twenty-The preceding remarks applicable to