Augustine of Hippo,
The Confessions of Saint Augustine…
“ For Homer also was skilful in weaving the like fables, and is most sweetly-vain, yet was he bitter to my boyish tastes. And so I suppose would Virgil be to Grecian children, when forced to learn him as I was the other. Difficulty, in truth, the difficulty in learning a foreign tongue, sprinkled, as it were, with gall all the sweetness of Grecian fables. For I knew none of the words, and to make me know them, I was urged vehemently with cruel threats and punishments. Time was also (as an infant) I knew no Latin ”
