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Priests (schoolmasters) ignorant of Latin.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd ignorance. · Absurd ignorance. · view the constellation · filed as J1741

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3 finer motifs beneath it
Evangelium secundum Pergamum. Pergamus, a rival city of Luca, objects to the reading of the Evangelium secundum Lucam, insisting that it be "secundum Pergamum" "Agnus dei" as a prayer for money. An ignorant schoolmaster interprets many of the texts of scripture as commands for the priests to live lives of luxury Prearranged answers in Latin not always successful. (Essentially same as X111.9.)
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Hero does not learn his name until after first adventure The city person ignorant of the farm Ignorance of certain foods Why the pigs shriek. The sheep does not understand why the pig being carried to slaughter shrieks Layman's ignorance of medicine Fool cannot tell his right hand in the dark Fools and the unknown animal Foolish lover ignorant of mistress's flaws Ignorance of religious matters The countryman in the great world Ignorance of dates Ignorance of marriage relations Absurd ignorance of sex Ignorance of reading The archbishop's wife and family. Fool asks what he is to talk about when guests arrive. Is told: "Their wives and family." He asks the archbishop about his family. (Cf. J2461.2.) Absurd ignorance of the use of spectacles
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"I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.)

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