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2. Translate, distinguishing in each case the dialect:

(α) Συμμαχία κ ̓ ἔα ἑκατὸν Γέτεα.

(3) ποίεε ὅκως ἐκείνην θεήσεαι.

(α) Εῤῥει τὰ καλα· Μίνδαρός τ ̓ ἀπεσσύα· Πεινῶντι τὤνδρες ἀπορίομες τί χρὴ δρῆν.

Transpose each into Attic Greek.

3. Write a short history of agrarian legislation at Rome.

4. Illustrate from Greek history the political use of religion.

5. Restore and translate, with comments on the orthography

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CONSOL CENSOR· AIDILIS HIC FVET· A
HEC CEPIT CORSICA ALERIAQVE. VRBE
DEDET TEMPESTATEBVS AIDE. MERETO

Give some account of the metre in which the inscription is composed.

6. Explain the following terms:—ζευγῖται, συμμορίαι, οἱ ἕνδεκα (at Athens), νομοθέται, κληρουχία, litium aestimatio, lex satura, usucapio, praevaricatio, duumviri perduellionis.

7. Give a full account of the methods of dating according to the Athenian calendar.

8. Derive the Roman alphabet, accounting for the number and forms of its letters.

9. Draw a map of Sicily, showing the distribution of races at the time of the Athenian invasion (B.C. 415), and distinguish between Ionian and Dorian settlements.

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.

MATHEMATICS.-PAPER I.

The Board of Examiners.

1. The arithmetic mean of any number of positive quantities which are not all equal is greater than their geometric mean.

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2. Shew that any quadratic surd is equal to a recurring continued fraction.

If Z be any integer not a perfect square, and if Z be converted into a continued fraction

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two, .... i complete periods, each period terminating with k be denoted by P1, P2, .... Pi, prove that

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3. Prove Newton's theorem concerning the sums of the powers of the roots of an equation.

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If f(x)=(x — α1) (x — α2) (x — α3) an), prove that the sum of all the homogeneous products of the degree of the n quantities a1, a2.... an is

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4. State and prove the rule for forming the product of two determinants of the same order.

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where are

A31, A32, A33 + λ, &c.

&c., &c., &c.

aer, shew that the roots of the equa

tion 4 (X) = 0 are all real.

5. If there be n angles a, b, c, d, &c., prove that 2n cos a cos b cos c cos d

....

is equal to the sum of the cosines of all the angles included in the expression

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6. If

Hence find an expression for cos " in terms of cosines of multiples of 0 and deduce an expression for sin "0 in terms of sines or cosines of multiples of 0.

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where A, is equal to the value of a2 — 002

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If a, ß, y be the arcs joining the middle points of the sides of a spherical triangle, prove that

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4 cos

a

COS

b

= sin

с

2

COS

8. Find the locus of the feet of the normals drawn

from a fixed point

conics.

to a system of confocal

Shew that the foot of the perpendicular from O on the polar of O with respect to any one of the conics lies on the locus.

9. If a triangle be self conjugate with respect to a parabola the centre of the circumscribed circle of the triangle lies on the directrix and the nine point circle of the triangle passes through the focus.

10. If a system of conics be such that the pencil of tangents drawn from any point is in involution, then the system of conics has four common tangents.

MATHEMATICS.-PAPER II.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Define a differential coefficient.

Find the differential coefficient of u with respect

to x

(i) When u is a function of У and

function of x.

y is a

(ii) When u is a function of x, y, z, and y, z

are functions of x.

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