CORDERIUS
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CORDERIUS , the Latinized form of name used by MATHURIN CORDIER (c. 1480-1564), French schoolmaster, a native of Normandy or Perche . He possessed special tact and liking for teaching children , and taught first at Paris, where Calvin was among his pupils, and, after a number of changes, finally at Geneva, where he died on the 8th of September 1564. He wrote several books for children ; the most famous is his Colloquia (Colloquiorum scholasticorum libri quatuor), which has passed through innumerable editions , and was used in schools for three centuries after his time See Also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus) - TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
. He also wrote: Principia Latine loquendi scribendique, sive selecta quaedam ex Epistolis Ciceronis; De corrupti sermonis apud Gallos emendatione et Latine loquendi Ratione; De syllabarum quantitate; Conciones sacrae viginti rex Galliae; Catonis disticha de moribus (with Latin and Frenchtranslation) ; Remontrances et exhortations au roi el aux grands de son royaume. See monograph by E. A. Berthault, De M. Corderio el creatis apud Protestantes litterarum studiis (1875).
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