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Classics.

Grammar and Philology.

1. State with examples the chief uses of рó.

2. Compare Greek and Latin syntax with respect to the rules for oratio obliqua.

3. Write a short paper on the middle voice.

4. Give rules for the use of un où.

5. What limitation to the use of the fut. inf. pass. in Latin?

6. How does Latin supply the absence of the pf. part. act. ?

7. State any general principles of use in turning English into Latin and Greek.

8. Show by examples the original affinity of Greek and Latin.

9. Every part of language was originally significant. Illustrate.

10. State and illustrate Grimm's Law.

11. From a comparison of genus and rέvos determine the original form of the genitive.

12. Give the vowel system of the Indo-European speech and mention the additions made by the Greeks and Latins.

13. Analyse the forin amantur. Show that the term deponent is incorrect.

GENERAL PAPER, A..

1. Translate the following extracts, explaining allusions and quoting parallel passages where you can :

(α) ̔Η μὲν ἄρ ̓ ὡς εἰποῦσ ̓ ἀπέβη γλαυκώπις Αθήνη
Ολυμπόνδ ̓, ὅθι φασὶ θεῶν ἕδος ἀσφαλὲς αἰεὶ
ἔμμεναι· οὔτ ̓ ἀνέμοισι τινάσσεται οὔτε ποτ' ὄμβρῳ
δεύεται οὔτε χιὼν ἐπιπίλναται, ἀλλὰ μάλ' αἴθρη
πέπταται ἀνέφελος, λευκὴ δ ̓ ἐπιδέδρομεν αἴγλη.
(6) Δίκα δὲ λάμπει μὲν ἐν δυσκάπνοις δώμασιν,
τὸν δ ̓ ἐναίσιμον τίει βίον.

τὰ χρυσόπαστα δ ̓ ἔδεθλα σὺν πίνῳ χερῶν
παλιντρόποις

ὄμμασι λιποῦσ ̓, ὅσια προσέβαλε δύναμιν οὐ
σέβουσα πλούτου παράσημον αἴνῳ.

(ε) ὦ Ζεῦ, τί δὴ χρυσοῦ μὲν ὃς κίβδηλος ή
τεκμήρι ἀνθρώποισιν ὤπασας σαφῆ,
ἀνδρῶν δ' ὅτῳ χρὴ τὸν κακὸν διειδέναι,
οὐδεὶς χαρακτὴρ ἐμπέφυκε σώματι.

(d) 'Iam iam non domus accipiet te laeta, neque uxor optima nec dulces occurrent oscula nati praeripere et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent.

(+) per pice torrentis atraque voragine ripas adnuit et totum nutu tremefecit Olympum.

(f) Visendus ater flumine languido

Cocytos errans et Danai genus
Infame damnatusque longi

Sisyphus Aeolides laboris.

2. What is an ode? Analyse one of Pindar's odes and compare it with any English ode you know.

3. State the more important opinions that have been held as to the composition of the Homeric poems.

4. Sketch the plot of any of the plays of Sophocles and compare it with that of any of the plays of Shakes

peare.

5. Criticise the Socrates of the Clouds.

6. Sketch the history of Roman dramatic literature. 7. Give a list of archaic forms from Plautus and Lucretius.

8. Write a short paper on the similes of Virgil.

9. Satira quidem tota nostra est.

short account of Roman satire.

Explain. Give a

10. Give a scale of the Greek senarian and of Horatian Alcaics.

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