Yet so it is that, in the age I am now of, I have been constrained to learn the Greek tongue
Greek tongue is mostly related too greek language, but go deeper to what it actually means in this text greek tongue goes further to just the language we all know about. "Roots or Primitive Words, Together with the most confiderable Derivatives of the Greek Language. As also a treatise of prepositions and other undeclinable particles" (Lancelot 1). The greek tongue is thee root of the greek language and when referred in gargantua greek was still old and all the derivatives we can see nowadays did not existed. In that time learning new languages was very difficult because of the lack of resources. The best way she could've learned the greek tongue was moving to greece and as mentioned it was difficult. Lancelot, Claude. The Primitives of the Greek Tongue: With Rules for Derivation. Translated by Mr. Nugent, 2nd ed., J. Nourse, 1748. https://archive.org/details/primitivesofgree00lancrich