11. Draw a comparison between the reigns of Richard II. and Henry VI. 12. Give a sketch of the expedition against Syracuse, and show how it was a turning-point in Athenian history. 13. Enumerate the foreign enemies with whom Rome had to contend during the time of the Republic, and add the dates of the principal contests. 14. What was the condition of parties, and what were the principles at stake, in the contest between Pompey and Cæsar ? 15. What events do you connect with the following names: Culloden, Clarendon, Mecca, Seringapatam, Utrecht, Legnano, Sphacteria, Mantinea, the Metaurus? Give dates. 16. Circumstances which favoured the spread of Christianity in the age of its promulgation. [Christ Church Junior Studentships, 1868.] XLIII. 1. Explain the idioms in α. κρίνομέν γε ἢ ἐνθυμούμεθα ὀρθῶς τὰ πράγματα. b. ἓν γέ τοι ἢ τὰ πλεῖστα κατορθοῦν. c. ἄγγελλε δ' ὅρκῳ προστιθείς. Π. οιός γε νεαρᾶς νεοπόκῳ μαλλῷ λαβών. ε. ἥκει ὁ Πέρσης οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον ἐπ' ἡμέας ἢ οὐ καὶ ἐπὶ ὑμέας. f. τὸ μὲν ἐπ' ἐκείνοις εἶναι. 1 Thucyd. ii. 40. 2. 2 The construction is that of the cognate accusative, kaтópowμa being understood; for yé To see Liddell and Scott, s. v. ye i. 5, and especially Ar. Vesp. 934. 3 Soph. Electr. 47. 4 Ib. O. C. 475. [What is the objection to the old reading, οἰὸς νεαρᾶς, κ.τ.λ.? What other readings are there?] 6 Hdt. iv. 118. 5. See Jelf, Gk. Gr. §749.3. • Thucyd. viii. 48. 5. See Lex. s. vv. èπí B. f,, and eiuí E. 1. 2. Suggest derivations for any of the following words :templum, oppidum, religio, hostia, immo, consul, mœnia, indulgeo, calamitas, immanis, sublimis, filius, homo. 3. Describe the origin and growth 4. a. In Italy, of either Epic Poetry or Satire, ὁ μηδὲν εἰδὼς Οἰδίπους ἔπαυσά νιν.2 When would you use ou and when μn? Show their force in the above passages. 5. What method of inquiry would you use if you wished to ascertain what had been the original reading in any corrupt passage of the Classics? 6. Explain and illustrate the uses of a. The Nominative Absolute. b. The Partitive Genitive. c. The Ethical Dative. d. Double Accusatives. 7. When is si used with the Indicative? when with the Subjunctive? In what cases does quum take the Indicative? 8. Explain and illustrate : a. Curatus inæquali tonsore capillos. 1 Eurip. Fragm. Phrix. 17. In (1) we find ouxì with doúλwv, because the sense is, 'my mind is more liberal than those who are universally admitted to be no-slaves.' In (2) undèv is used because Edipus speaks in reference to the contemptuous opinion expressed of him by Teiresias in the lines preceding; undèv implies 'the knower, as you say, of nothing.' For a curious juxtaposition of où and un, see Eurip. Fragm. Meleagr. xx., where, speaking of the state after death, a character says τὸ μηδὲν εἰς οὐδὲν ῥέπει. Cf. Soph. Aj. 1231. 3 For the lines, see Hor. Epist. i. 1. 94, and Juv. i. 13, with Mayor's Note. Th words inæq. t. and as. l. are really in the ablative absolute. Compare Hor. C. i. 6. 2, reading alite, Epist. i. 19. 13. b. Matutine pater seu Jane libentius audis. Macte virtute esto.1 c. Æneas se matutinus agebat.' d. καί σ ̓ οὔτ ̓ ἀθανάτων φύξιμος οὐδείς. ε. καὶ ξυμμετίσχω καὶ φέρω τῆς αἰτίας. 3 f. ἀκούω φθόγγον ὀρνίθων...κλάζοντας. 8 9. Mention any old ideas (about the moods, tenses, voices, cases, or parts of speech, in Latin and Greek, or about the connection between the two languages) which Comparative Philology has shown to be false; and state what new views it has given us. 10. Give a criticism on any two Classical Authors, with illustrations of their faults, merits, and peculiarities. [Christ Church Junior Studentships, 1868.] XLIV. 1. Mention any peculiarities characteristic of the style of Thucydides, Sophocles, Lucretius, Tacitus. 2. Give a short account of the Scazon, the Saturnian, and the Galliambic metres, and mention any poets who have written in them. 3. What is meant by attraction? Explain, with examples, what are the most usual instances of its occurrence in Greek. 4. The uses of the Greek future optative, and the Greek participle. Give examples, with the corresponding Latin expressions. 5. Mention any words or constructions peculiar to Latin writers of the silver age. 1 See Hor. S. ii. 6. 20, and i. 2. 31. Cf. Livy, ii. 12. 8, and, for the construction, see Donalds. Lat. Gr. § 166. 2 See Virg. Æn. viii. 465. Cf. Hor. S. ii. 4. 17, and Virg. Georgic. iii. 537. 6. Illustrate the uses of the words argutus, numerus, ultro, miscere, improbus, justus, ruina. 7. Translate, noting any peculiarity: a. Daphni, quid antiquos signorum suspicis ortus ?1 b. Quid tibi hanc digito tactio est ? 2 c. Tentatum domi ut ambo patricii consules crearentur d. Venena magnum fas nefasque non valent e. Obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum." Nequid ob admissum foede dictumve superbe h. κτύπησε μὲν Ζεὺς χθόνιος, αἱ δὲ παρθένοι i. τῆς θυμοβόρου φρένα λύπης. Κ. γράψας . . . . τὴν τῶν γεφυρῶν δι' αὑτὸν οὐ διάλυσιν.10 8. Give rules for the use of quum with the Indicative and Subjunctive. When are iva and oπws used with the Indicative? 9. Illustrate the frequentative use of åv with the Indicative Mood. 10. What is meant by the 'Irony' of Sophocles? Illustrate from any of his plays.11 11. Translate, and explain the constructions: δ. ἀλλ ̓ εὐτυχοίης, καί σε τῆσδε τῆς ὁδοῦ δαίμων ἄμεινον ἤ 'με φρουρήσας τύχοι. c. τῆς τε γὰρ Ιταλίας καὶ Σικελίας καλῶς παράπλου 2 διὰ τοῦτο τοὔργον· ἄξιον γὰρ Ἑλλάδι.4 f. σοὶ ταῦτ ̓ ἀρέσκει, παῖ Μενοικέως, Κρέον, 6 τὸν τῇδε δύσνουν καὶ τὸν εὐμενῆ πόλει ; 5 i. Quibus ccelo te laudibus æquem Justitiane prius mirer, belline laborum 18 [Christ Church Junior Studentships, 1869.] XLV. 1. What data have we for estimating the relative age of the several cases in Greek and Latin ? 2. Illustrate any one Greek myth that occurs to you by the light of Comparative Philology. 3. What symptoms of incipient decay are traceable in the Greek of Demosthenes, in respect (1.) of forms, (2.) of idioms? 4. What peculiarities are characteristic of the Latinity of the Silver Age? Mention the principal writers of that period. 5. Give the meanings and etymological connexions of the following prefixes :-α, ε, αρι, δυσ, ζα. 6. Explain the origin and force of a. Genitive Absolute; b. Ablative Absolute ; c. Nominativus Pendens s; 1 Soph. Ο. R. 1478. 4 Ar. Ach. 7. 7 Hor. Ep. i. 1. 94. 8 Virg. En. xi. 125. 3 Ar. Plut. 1020. 6 Juv. i. 13. |