From this last statement, and in fact from the whole list, it appears that all the important authors were included in the Jesuit plan, and that those who made the sweeping assertion that "the greatest Greek authors were all excluded from the Jesuit schools,"[1] have not looked at the documents of the Society. All the most important authors were explicitly prescribed. It is evident that not all the authors which are mentioned could be read. The different provinces of the Society drew up lists, or catalogues of authors, which varied in different years. Thus in the Province of Upper Germany in 1602-1604 a catalogus perpetuus was drawn up, i. e. a list of authors to be read every four or five years. We subjoin the list of the books for Rhetoric class.[2]
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A. D. 1604: Cicero, Orator ad Brutum; orations, vol. II. The Annals of Tacitus. The Tragedies of Seneca. – The Philippics of Demosthenes. The ἕργα καἱ ἡμέραι of Hesiod.
A. D. 1605: Cicero, Partitiones Oratoriae; orations, vol. III. Livy, I. decade. Juvenal – The Olynthiacs of Demosthenes. Homer, Iliad, books I and II.
A. D. 1606: Cicero, De Oratore, three books; orations, vol. I. Livy, III. decade. Statius, Thebaid. – Isocrates, Panegyric. Euripides, Hecuba.
A. D. 1607: Cicero, De Optimo Genere Oratorum; orations, vol. II. Tacitus, Historiae. Claudian and Herodian. – Aristotle, Rhetoric. Sophocles.
