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cyclonefence

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7. Here you go

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 07:16 PM

Oct 2018

The quadrivium (plural: quadrivia) is the four subjects, or arts, taught after teaching the trivium. ... The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. These followed the preparatory work of the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

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We use the term trivial in a dismissive way. But what does it actually mean? [View all] Xipe Totec Oct 2018 OP

tri via is latin for three roads rurallib Oct 2018 #1

Which three? Are there more? Xipe Totec Oct 2018 #2

They all go the same place jberryhill Oct 2018 #3

I do not know - all the latin I can remember is that try is 3 and via is way or road rurallib Oct 2018 #4

Grammar, rhetoric, and Logic Xipe Totec Oct 2018 #5

Here you go cyclonefence Oct 2018 #7

Xactly! nt Xipe Totec Oct 2018 #8

Bit OT--in German, pop lit is Trivialliteratur. Really, any lit that is not 'serious' lit bobbieinok Oct 2018 #6