Grammar and Medicine - Agathias Scholasticus

A thriving doctor sent his son to school 

To gain some knowledge, should he prove no fool; 

But took him soon away with little warning, 

On finding out the lesson he was learning — 

How great Pelides's wrath, in Homer's rime, 

Sent many souls to Hades ere their time. 

"No need for this my boy should hither come; 

That lesson he can better learn at home; 

For I myself, now, I make bold to say. 

Sent many souls to Hades ere their day. 

Nor e'er found want of grammar stop my way."

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Agathias [Agathias Scholasticus of Myrina] (536 - 582) Turkey

Translated by William Hayes Ward

Source: The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, Lionel Strachey,  The Review of Reviews Company, 1906