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Apprenticeships were altogether unknown to the ancients. The

reciprocal duties of master and apprentice make a considerable

article in every modern code. The Roman law is perfectly silent

with regard to them. I know no Greek or Latin word (I might

venture, I believe, to assert that there is none) which expresses

the idea we now annex to the word apprentice, a servant bound to

work at a particular trade for the benefit of a master, during a

term of years, upon condition that the master shall teach him

that trade.