But now I formed an alliance with a boy in the Sixth Form.He was very clever and could read Latin as easily as English. Caesar,OVID,Virgil,Horace and even Martial's epigrams were all the same to him.My daily task was perhaps ten or fifteen lines.This would ordinarily have taken me an hour and a half to do the translations,and then it would probably have been wrong. But my friend could in five minutes translate it for me word by word, and once I had seen it exposed, I remembered it firmly.