LATIN. Morning Paper. REV. OSBORNE GORDON, B.D. Virgil. Prima fugit, domina amissa, levis ala Camillæ, Turbati fugiunt Rutuli, fugit acer Atinas, Disjectique duces desolatique manipli Tuta petunt et equis aversi ad monia tendunt. Sed laxos referunt humeris languentibus arcus, campum. Volvitur ad muros caligine turbidus atra Pulvis, et e speculis percussæ pectora matres C Horace. Rusticus urbanum murem mus paupere fertur Prærupti nemoris patientem vivere dorso? Vis tu homines urbemque feris præponere silvis? Questions. 1. Give the perfects, and past participles of farcio, expergiscor, salio, reor, contego, excello, fodio, apiscor, metior, mentior. 2. Give the literal and military meanings of ́ala and manipulus. 3. Notice anything peculiar in the use or construction of the following words and expressions in the above passages-aversi, sistere, percussæ pectora, immissis frænis, duros objice postes, ciceris invidit. 4. Give the derivations of the words ambitio, prævaricari, multare, mactare, reus, delirare, com perendinari, and their general use in Latin authors. 5. Distinguish the meanings of sentio, puto, cogito, censeo; orbis, mundus; albus, candidus; accidit, contingit; ager, arvum, pratum. 6. Explain the following-Hares ex triente; omne tulit punctum; sub hasta venire; vir quocum in tenebris mices; Drusi hortos quanti licuisse scribis ? M. T. C. Appio Pulchro S. P. D. S.V.B.E.E.V. 7. Change those parts of the following passage that are printed in italics into the oratio obliqua: Popilius virga, quam manu gerebat, circumscripsit regem; ac Priusquam hoc circulo excedas inquit redde responsum, senatui quod referam. Rex, parumper quum hæsitasset Faciam inquit quod censet senatus. 8. Mention any metres besides Alcaic and Sapphic used in the Odes of Horace, and give instances. For Latin Prose: Quintus Milo commands his servant Aufidius, whom he has taken to teach grammar and rhetoric to his children, that he should learn the trade of a shoemaker. Aufidius doubts whether his master hath power to command him to do that which is no part of his duty; but yet because the thing is in itself lawful and honest, he considers it the safest course to obey, for certainly in so doing he sins not. But if to learn a mean trade will dishonour or disable him, and ruin his hopes and interests when he leaves the service of Milo, the servant is not tied to follow that course which seems more safe, but that which is more reasonable and prudent. LATIN. Afternoon Paper. PROFESSOR RAWLINSON, M.A. Passages for Translation. Cicero. Ut ab Urbe discessi, nullum adhuc intermisi diem, quin aliquid ad te litterarum darem: non quo haberem magnopere, quid scriberem, sed ut loquerer tecum absens; quo mihi, quum coram id non licet, nihil est jucundius. Capuam quum venissem a. d. vi. Kal., pridie, quam has litteras dedi, consules conveni multosque nostri ordinis. Omnes cupiebant, Cæsarem, abductis præsidiis, stare conditionibus iis, quas tulisset. Uni Favonio, leges ab illo nobis imponi, non placebat; sed is haud auditus in consilio. Cato enim ipse jam servire, quam pugnare, mavult: sed tamen ait, in senatu se adesse velle, quum de conditionibus agatur, si Cæsar adductus sit, ut præsidia deducat. Ita, quod maxime opus est, in Siciliam ire non curat; quod metuo ne obsit, in senatu esse vult. Postumius autem, de quo nominatim senatus decrevit, ut statim in Siciliam iret Furfanoque succederet, negat se sine Catone iturum et suam in senatu operam auctoritatemque quam magni æstimat. Tacitus. Statim e somno, quem plerumque in diem extrahunt, lavantur, sæpius calida, ut apud quos plurimum hiems occupat. Lauti cibum capiunt : separatæ singulis sedes, et sua cuique mensa. Tum ad negotia, nec minus sæpe ad convivia, procedunt armati. Diem noctemque continuare potando, nulli probrum. Crebræ, ut inter vinolentos, rixæ, raro conviciis, sæpius cæde et vulneribus transiguntur. Sed et de reconciliandis invicem inimicis et jungendis adfinitatibus et adsciscendis principibus, de pace denique ac bello, plerumque in conviviis consultant tamquam nullo magis tempore aut ad simplices cogitationes pateat animus, aut ad magnas incalescat. Gens non astuta, nec callida, aperit adhuc secreta pectoris licentia joci. Ergo detecta et nuda omnium mens postera die retractatur, et salva utriusque temporis ratio est. Deliberant, dum fingere nesciunt: constituunt, dum errare non possunt. Potui humor ex hordeo aut frumento, in quandam similitudinem vini corruptus. Proximi ripæ et vinum mercantur. Grammatical Questions. 1. Parse the words printed in Italics in the above passages, mentioning the principal tenses of each verb. 2. Give the infinitives of fio, furio, parturio, intueor, metuor, immolo, molo, nolo, possum, prosum, tutor, and utor. 3. Give the gender and the accusative case singular of each of the following words-caro, homo, pavo-cuspis, custos, delphin, exlex, frigus, ficus, fidicen, fides, and limes. 4. Mention the genitive and dative case singular of alius, alter, idem, ipse, egomet, and decline tres, ambo, and nemo. 5. Express in Latin:-" He was five hundred |