Initium quoque eius mediocre exstitit, siquidem antiquissimi doctorum, qui iidem et poetae et semigraeci erant (Livium et Ennium dico, quos utraque lingua domi forisque docuisse adnotatum est), nihil amplius quam Graecos interpretabantur, aut si quid ipsi Latine composuissent praelegebant.
The beginnings of the subject, too, were humble, for the earliest teachers, who were also both poets and Italian Greeks (I refer to Livius and Ennius, who gave instruction in both tongues at home and abroad, as is well known), did no more than interpret the Greeks or give readings from whatever they themselves had composed in the Latin language.
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