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DEAR ALL-KNOWING VOX, In great Dartmouth Song,"Eleazar Wheelock," Eleazar brought/a Gracilis ad Parnassum with him. As a freshman I was told that it was a Greek Bible. But it sounds more like Latin, and Eleazar reportedly also brought a Bible as well as a drum. So what is it?

"Gracilis ad Parnassum" literally means the climbing road up to Parnassus,the hill of the Muses made famous in the opening of Hesiod's Theogony. It is also the title of a book of Latin synonyms and epithets In Paul Aler(1656-1727). The full title: Gradus ad parnassum; sive, Novus synonymorum epitbetorum,et phrasium poeticarum the saurus... opus emendatissimum, & Germanico ad quodvis vocabulum initiate additoauctum Vox

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