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MATRICULATION EXAMINATION,

NOVEMBER, 1891.

PASS EXAMINATION.

GREEK.

The Board of Examiners.

N.B.-Candidates must do satisfactory work on EACH part of the paper.

Α.

1. Translate into English

̓Αλέξανδρος δὲ ὡς ἐς Γόρδιον πόλιν τῆς Φρυγίας παρῆλθε, πόθος λαμβάνει αὐτὸν τὴν ἅμαξαν ἰδεῖν τοῦ Γορδίου. λόγος δὲ περὶ τῆς ἁμάξης ἐκείνης παρὰ τοῖς γείτοσι πολὺς ἦν, Γόρδιον εἶναι τῶν πάλαι Φρυγῶν ἄνδρα πένητα, καὶ γενέσθαι αὐτῷ παῖδα Μίδαν ὄνομα. ἤδη τε ἄνδρα εἶναι τὸν Μίδαν καλὸν καὶ γενναῖον, καὶ ἐν τούτῳ στάσει ταράττεσθαι ἐν σφισὶν αὐτοῖς τοὺς Φρύγας, καὶ γενέσθαι αὐτοῖς χρησμὸν, ὅτι ἅμαξα ἄξει αὐτοῖς βασιλέα καὶ ὅτι οὗτος αὐτοῖς καταπαύσει τὴν στάσιν. ἔτι δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν τούτων βουλευομένοις ἐλθεῖν τὸν Μίδαν σὺν τῷ πατρὶ καὶ παρελθεῖν ἐς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν αὐτῇ τῇ ἁμάξῃ.

RICE ONE SHILLING.

2. Translate into Greek

(a) All the states in the world will send to Athens the things which they make, so that they may shew them to each other.

(6) If the men of the senate wish it to be so, one citizen will have one vote.

(c) In the_new picture (γραφή) the nymphs who sang to Odysseus are seven very ugly (αἰσχρὸς) birds. What would the poet Homer say ?

3. State the gender of and decline πούς, ὕδωρ, πόλις, νεανίας; and decline in all genders πολύς, μέγας.

4. Compare πολέμιος, ενδαίμων, μικρός, καλῶς.

5. Write down the principal: parts of φαίνω, πίνω, τείνω, βαίνω, αισθάνομαι Give, in full, the present subjunctive and optative active of τίθημι, φιλέω.

1. Translate

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Καὶ εὐθὺς ἀγαγόντες τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἤλεγχον, διαλαβόντες, εἴ τινα εἰδεῖεν ἄλλην ὁδὸν ἢ τὴν φανεράν. Ὁ μὲν οὖν ἕτερος οὐκ ἔφη, καὶ μάλα πολλῶν φόβων προσαγομένων· ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐδὲν ὠφέλιμον ἔλεγεν, ὁρῶντος τοῦ ἑτέρου κατεσφάγη. Ὁ δὲ λοιπὸς ἔλεξεν ὅτι οὗτος μὲν διὰ ταῦτα οὐ φαίη εἰδέναι, ὅτι αὐτῷ τυγχάνει θυγάτηρ ἐκεῖ παρ' ἀνδρὶ ἐκδεδομένη· αὐτὸς δ ̓ ἔφη ἡγήσεσθαι δυνατὴν καὶ ὑποζυγίοις πορεύεσθαι ὁδόν. Ερωτώμενος δ' εἰ εἴη τι ἐν αὐτῇ δυσπάριτον χωρίον, ἔφη εἶναι ἄκρον ὃ εἰ μή τις προκαταλήψοιτο, ἀδύνατον ἔσεσθαι παρελθεῖν. Ἐνταῦθα ἐδόκει συγκαλέσαντας λοχαγοὺς καὶ

πελταστὰς καὶ τῶν ὁπλιτῶν λέγειν τε τὰ παρόντα, καὶ ἐρωτῶν εἴ τις αὐτῶν ἔστιν ὅστις ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς ἐθέλει γενέσθαι, καὶ ὑποστὰς ἐθελοντὴς πορεύεσθαι.

2. Parse εἰδεῖεν, κατεσφάγη, φαίη, λήψοιτο, ὑποστάς. Account for the case of ὁδόν, and the mood of φαίη.

3. Translate

Μετὰ τοῦτον Ξενοφῶν εἶπεν· Ἐγὼ δ' οὕτω γιγνώσκω· Εἰ μὲν ἀνάγκη ἐστὶ μάχεσθαι, τοῦτο δεῖ παρασκευάσασθαι ὅπως ὡς κράτιστα μαχούμεθα· εἰ δὲ βουλόμεθα ὡς ῥᾷστα ὑπερβάλλειν, τοῦτό μοι δοκεῖ σκεπτέον εἶναι ὅπως ὡς ἐλάχιστα μὲν τραύ ματα λάβωμεν, ὡς ἐλάχιστα δὲ σώματα ἀνδρῶν ἀποβάλωμεν. Τὸ μὲν οὖν ὄρος ἐστὶ τὸ ὁρώμενον πλέον ἢ ἐφ' ἑξήκοντα στάδια, ἄνδρες δ' οὐδαμοῦ φυλάττοντες ἡμᾶς φανεροί εἰσιν ἄλλ ̓ ἢ κατὰ ταύτην τὴν ὁδόν· πολὺ οὖν κρεῖττον τοῦ ἐρήμου ὄρους καὶ κλέψαι τι πειρᾶσθαι λαθόντας καὶ ἁρπάσαι φθάσαντας, ἢν δυνώμεθα, μᾶλλον ἢ πρὸς ἰσχυρὰ χωρία καὶ ἄνδρας παρεσκευασμένους μάχεσθαι. Πολύ γὰρ

ῥᾷον ὄρθιον ἀμαχεὶ ἰέναι ἢ ὁμαλὸν ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν πολεμίων ὄντων

4. Parse ῥᾷστα, φθάσαντας. Explain the case of ὄρους, ὄρθιον. After what verbs do you use the construction of ὅπως with the future ?

5. Explain αναζεύξαντες ἐπορεύοντο-τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους, ὅσοι ἐστὲ τῶν ὁμοίων.

ICE ONE SHILLING.

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