me, I was preserved, I know not how, by being presently known to our soldiers.

"The origin of the human soul," says he, "is not to be found any where on earth. There is nothing mixed, concrete, or earthly; nothing of water, air, or fire in it. For these natures are not susceptible of memory, intelligence, or thought; have nothing that can retain the past, foresee the future, lay hold on the present; which faculties are purely Divine, and could not possibly be derived to man, except from God. The nature of the soul, therefore, is of a singular kind; distinct from these known and obvious natures: and whatever it be that feels and tastes, that lives and moves in us, it must be heavenly and Divine, and for that reason eternal. Nor is God indeed himself, whose existence we clearly discover, to be comprehended by us in any other manner, but as a free and pure mind, clear from all mortal concretion; observing and moving all things, and endued with an eternal principle of self-motion. Of this kind, and of the same nature, is the human soul."

IV. Into Greek Hexameters.

Then with a rushing sound, th' assembly bend
Diverse their steps: the rival rout ascend

The royal dome; whilst sad the Prince explores

The neighbouring main, and sorrowing treads the shores.
There, as the waters o'er his hands he shed,

The royal suppliant to Minerva pray'd:

"O Goddess! who descending from the skies
Vouchsaf'd thy presence to my wond'ring eyes;
By whose commands the raging deep I trace,
And seek my sire through storms and rolling seas;
Hear from the heav'ns above, O warrior-maid;
Descend once more propitious to my aid.
Without thy presence vain is thy command:
Greece and the rival train thy voice withstand."

Into Greek Iambics.

Let it be so

-Thy truth then be thy dower:

For by the sacred radiance of the sun;
The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;
By all the operations of the orbs,

From whom we do exist, and cease to be;
Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
Propinquity and property of blood,

And as a stranger to my heart and me

Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
Or he that makes his generation messes

To

gorge

his appetite, shall to my bosom

Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and reliev'd,

As thou my sometime daughter.

Into English Prose.

Aristoph. Eccles. 728-745.

Ἔγωγ ̓ ἵν' εἰς ἀγοράν γε

-τὸν ὄχλον ἀφίετε.

1. Explain very briefly the allusions in this passage.

2. Arrange the plays of Aristophanes in chronological order, mentioning the most prominent political circumstances in eachthose especially which mark the date of the piece.

Tacit. Ann. xvi. 26.

"Contra qui opperiendum domi-Senatus consulto."

Id. Ann. iii. 31.

"Inter quæ Severus Cocina

Cic. Philip. ii. 17.

-stipendia explevisset."

"Ab hâc religionum de tantâ impudentiâ."

V. Into Latin Hexameters.

From the moist meadow to the withered hill,
Led by the breeze, the vivid verdure runs,
And swells, and deepens, to the cherish'd eye.
The hawthorn whitens; and the juicy groves
Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees,
Till the whole leafy forest stands display'd,
In full luxuriance to the sighing gales;

Where the deer rustle thro' the twining brake,
And the birds sing conceal'd. At once array'd
In all the colours of the flushing year,
By Nature's swift and secret-working hand,
The garden glows, and fills the liberal air

With lavish fragrance; while the promis'd fruit
Lies yet a little embryo, unperceiv'd,

Within its crimson folds.

Now from the town

Buried in smoke, and sleep, and noisome damps,

Oft let me wander o'er the dewy fields,

Where freshness breathes, and dash the trembling drops

From the bent bush, as thro' the verdant maze

Of sweet-briar hedges I pursue my walk;

Or taste the smell of dairy; or ascend
Some eminence, AUGUSTA, in thy plains,
And see the country, far diffus'd around,
One boundless blush, one white-empurpled shower
Of mingled blossoms; where the raptur'd eye
Hurries from joy to joy, and, hid beneath

The fair profusion, yellow Autumn spies.

VI. Into English Prose; and also (omitting the Antistrophe)

Explain the third line.

Οἴμοι ἀναλκείης· ἀπὸ μὲν Κήρινθος ὄλωλε,
Ληλάντου δ' ἀγαθὸν κείρεται οἰνόπεδον

οἱ δ' ἀγαθοὶ φεύγουσι, πόλιν δὲ κακοὶ διέπουσιν·

ὡς Κυψελλίζον Ζεὺς ὀλέσειε γένος.-Theog. 890.

Explain the History.

Into English Prose.

Hesiod. Clyp. Herc. 386-401.

Οἷος δ' ἐν βήσσῃς ὅρεος

-πολὺς δ ̓ ὀρυμαγδός ορώρει.

VII. Subject for Latin Verse.

τέως δὲ κούφοις πνεύμασιν βόσκου, νέαν

ψυχὴν ἀτάλλων.—Soph. Αj. 578.

COLLEGE

EXAMINATIONS.

or verse.

THE principal Classical Lectures are in most of the Colleges those given to men in their first year of residence. The subjects are greatly varied; but they are more usually a Greek play, a selection from one of the Greek historians, orators, or philosophers, and from some Latin writer, either of prose A general examination in these subjects takes place throughout the University at the end of the third term; at St. John's they examine at the end of the first term also. At some Colleges, especially Trinity, two papers are generally given on each subject; one containing a variety of questions arising out of the subject, or connected with it; the other consisting of passages from the book itself to be translated, and a piece of English to be rendered into the same language and style. The former kind is, with a few exceptions, the only one we have admitted into our collection.

In the larger Colleges, and in some few of the others, a portion of the Greek Testament, one of the Gospels, or the Acts of the Apostles, is a subject of examination for secondyear men. And besides this, some classical book is read in the lecture-room, generally one of those which form a part of the previous Examination, or Little Go. The first and second terms of the second year, and not unfrequently also the second and third of the first year are employed by the tutors of the smaller Colleges in preparing their men for this