ἐπὶ ̓́Αρχοντος Εὐθυκλέους, πυανεψιῶνος ἐνάτῃ ἀπιόντος. A quo H-S. C millia per calumniam malitiamque petita sunt.

[Magdalen College Demyship, 1863.]

LXIV.

r. Detail the political history of the year B.C. 362, and state what eminent authors were then alive, and how many of these were known by their works at that time.

2. Define the geographical position of the following places, and mention the celebrated men whom they respectively produced :—Apamea, Samosata, Chæronea, Cumæ, Megalopolis, Naucratis, Citium, Elea, Cnidus, Amasia, Methymna.

3. Why does Porson say :-'in lexicis nec comparet nec comparere potest verbum συνεξευπόρισα

Distinguish between a synthetic and a parathetic compound : explain the formation of τηλεβολεϊν and belligerare, and show that τηλεβάλλειν and belligerere would be impossible forms.

4. Translate the following passages, having first pointed out and corrected the errors of inflexion or syntax which you observe in them :

α. οἱ δὲ πολέμιοι, ὡς ᾔσθοντο ἐχόμενον τὸ ὄρος, ἐγρηγό ρησαν, καὶ ἔκαιον πυρὰ πολλὰ διὰ νύκτα. ἐπεὶ δὲ ἡμέρα ἐγένετο, Χειρίσοφος μὲν ἦγε κατὰ τὴν ὁδόν· οἱ δὲ τὸ ὄρος καταλαβόντες ἐπήρχοντο.

6. Τὶς ἂν λόγος ὠφελήσειεν μᾶλλον τὰς τῶν ἀκουσόντων ψυχὰς τοῦ τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐγκωμιάσοντος καὶ τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς ἄνδρας;2

ε. εἰ γὰρ δή τις ἀμοιβῶν ἂν εἴη τόπος, θάνατος τούτοις ἀρχηγὸς μεγάλων ἀγαθῶν γέγονε.

1 Xen. Anab. iv. 6. 22.

2 Hyperides, Epit. col. i. 13.

3 Ib. col. xi. 8.

d. ἀπάγετ' ἐκτόπιον ὅτι τάχιστά με,

ἀπάγετ ̓, ὦ φίλοι, τὸν ὄλεθρον μέγαν.

5. Explain the usage of the negatives in the following passages:

α. ἐπείδη δ' εὗρεν οὐκ ἐπιτήδειον, μήτε πρὸς δοῦλον μήθ'

ὅλως ἐξεῖναι πράττειν ἐπέτρεψεν.

b. ἔκβαιν' ἀπήνης τῆσδε, μὴ χαμαὶ τιθεὶς τὸν σὸν πόδα. c. ἐγὼ δ' ὅπως συ μὴ λέγεις ὀρθῶς τάδε

οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην μήτ' ἐπισταίμην λέγειν.4

6. Enumerate the principal philosophers of the New Academy and the Porch, and state as nearly as you can the period at which each of them flourished.

7. Describe the functions of the "Αρχοντες and Πρυτάνεις at Athens, and of the Ἔφοροι at Sparta.

8. Distinguish διαθήκη, ἐπιδιαθήκη; προόμνυμι, ἐξόμνυμι ; ἀπαγγελία, ἐπαγγελία, εἰσαγγελία ; κατασκευὴ, παρασκευή ; ἀπόδειξις, ἐπίδειξις, ἔνδειξις; διομολογεῖσθαι, ἀνθομολογεῖσθαι; ἀπορεῖν, ἀπορεῖσθαι; πρόκλησις, πρόσκλησις ; ἐπίδικος, ὑπόδικος, ἐμνήσθην, μέμνημαι; καθ' ἡμέραν, μεθ' ἡμέραν; κατὰ χθονός, κατὰ χθόνα ; ἐπὶ κεφαλῇ, ἐπὶ κεφαλῆς. [Bell Scholarship, 1858.]

LXV.

1. Examine the value of the prefix re- in the following words :—rebello, repudio, recino, recido, recido, recondo, recludo, retego. When did the last three change their meaning? What Greek prefix exhibits a similar variety of signification? Distinguish between resideo and resido, and exemplify your distinction by quotations from Latin poets.

1 Soph. Ο. Τ. 1340.

2 Cf. Thuc. iv. 32. 4; Dem. Meid. 538, § 21.

3 Æsch. Αg. 879.

4 Soph. Αnt. 685.

2. What is the true force of the gerund? Show that it may be still traced in the different uses of the gerundive. Explain the error of considering repetundæ as a noun substantive.

3. State some of the reasons on which it is now concluded that the early history of Rome is for the most part legendary and poetical. What is the argument from the period assigned to the seven kings?

4. Distinguish 'invenire, reperire; vectigal, ultro tributum ; quietus, tranquillus; and translate the following lines with proper attention to the apparently synonymous words :Adsum videoque trementem

:

Pallentemque metu, et trepidantem morte futura.

3

Redde hostem, vulnusque tuum solitumque timorem. 5. Explain by a Greek analogy the relation between fassus and fessus. Does the epithet decumanus bear the same meaning in all the following phrases ?-Decumani milites; D. fluctus; D. porta; D. frumentum. Give a full explanation in each case.

6. Describe the form of process in a civil suit at Rome. Distinguish in jure, in judicio; vades, prædes, sponsores; vindicia, vindicta, vindicatio.

7. Explain the Roman method of computing money by sestertii. What was the denarius? Show that the Fenus Unciarium and the Usura Centesima were 10 and 12 per cent. respectively.

8. What were the numbers and composition of a Roman legion in the time of Julius Cæsar? What were the nurnbers and functions of the tribunus, præfectus, centurio, optio, primipilus, primus princeps, aquilifer, signifer? What is the technical meaning of the word vexillarius?

[Bell Scholarship, 1858.]

1 See Ovid, Ex. P. iii. 1. 34; Met. i. 654, v. 518.

2 See Ovid, Fasti, ii. 103; iii. 617, 644,

645; Cic. iii. in Cat. 4, § 8; Hor. C. ii. 19. 5; Cic. 2 Phil. 31, 77.

3 Ovid, Met. xiii. 73.

LXVI.

1. Show, by examples, the original affinity of the Latin and Greek languages. With what Greek dialect is the Latin most closely connected?

2. What traces of a locative case of substantives exist in Latin and Greek? Give instances.

3. Show how adverbs originated in Greek, giving examples of different kinds, according to their terminations.

4. What cases, and with what difference of meaning, follow the prepositions, ἐπὶ, κατὰ, παρὰ, and πρός respectively? What change of meaning do the same prepositions cause in any verb with which they are compounded?

5. What are the various meanings of the middle verb in Greek? What are the terminations of frequentative and desiderative verbs?

6. What kind of propositions are expressed by the past tenses of the Indicative with äv? What variety of moods and tenses follows οὐ μή and ὅπως μή respectively

7. State the general principle of what is called 'Attic Attraction.' What cases of the relative are usually attracted? Is the nominative among them? How would you explain such phrases as ἐξ ὧν παρεσκεύασται ?

8. What different classes of genitive cases are there in Latin ? Give specimens of each, and their technical names.

9. What classes of verbs are followed by an accusative case and Infinitive Mood? What, by some particle (quod, ut, etc.)

and finite verbs?

10. What is the primary notion of a 'Proposition in the Conjunctive' Distinguish clearly between the three following conditional propositions :-Si sapiens est felix; Si sapiens sit felix; Si sapiens esset felix.

11. Distinguish between Ærarium and Fiscus ; Affinis, Agnatus, Cognatus; Plebs and Populus; Lex and Jus; Facinus, Flagitium, Culpa, Crimen ; Libertus and Libertinus; Sentio and Censeo.

12. Explain the use of the tenses in the following extract :— Nihil habebam, quod scriberem; neque enim novi

quidquam audieram, et ad omnes tuas epistolas

rescripseram pridie; erat tamen rumor, comitia dilatum iri.1

13. Hanno unus causam fœderis egit: 'Per Deos, foederum arbitros ac testes, monuisse, prædixisse se, ne Hamilcaris progeniem ad exercitum mitterent: non manes, non stirpem ejus conquiescere viri: nec unquam, donec sanguinis nominisque Barcini quisquam supersit, quietura Romana fœdera.'"

Write down, from the above, the very words used by Hanno, in Latin.

[Christ's College, 1864.]

LXVII.

1. Define Comparative Philology.' State briefly the conclusions which have been formed by means of this study respecting the ethnical affinities of the Greeks and Latins, and their migrations in prehistoric times.

2. Discuss the following statement of Professor Max Müller... the philosophers and grammarians of Greece, to whom, in spite of all our new discoveries, I believe we are still beholden for more than half of our intellectual life.'

3. a. Translate and explain the following sentence :— Κρατύλος φησὶν ὅδε, ὦ Σώκρατες, ὀνόματος ὀρθότητα εἶναι ἑκάστῳ τῶν ὄντων φύσει πεφυκυίαν, καὶ οὐ τοῦτο εἶναι ὄνομα ὃ ἄν τινες ξυνθέμενοι καλεῖν

1 Cic. ad Att. ix. 10. 1.

2 Liv. xxi. 10.