which the Greek writers use the different tenses of the infinitive mood. Is there any difference between the usage of piv with a subjunctive and with an infinitive?

περι

2. V. 226. How is the quantity of the second syllable in TepXexuaro accounted for? Shew from a comparison with words at all similar in their composition, whether there is any method of remedying the apparent defect.

3. V. 236. ασχαλόων. Which is the more ancient?

What other form of this word exists?

How is the present form explained?

Produce a few similar forms from Homer.
4. V. 241. avεpúer.
αὐερύειν.
αὖ ἐρύειν. 5

Which of these is the preferable reading?
Establish your opinion by authority.

5. Derive προδείελος, 223. ἀνεμώλιον, 239. περιγληνώμενος, 241. ἄμοτος, 242. εὐκεάτοιο, 248. τανύφλοιος, 250. λώπη, 254. Give the different derivations and accentuations assigned to a@pooç according to its significations.

6. To what dialect, and what stage of that dialect, does the language of Theocritus belong? Specify in a few instances the difference between that dialect and others to which it approximates.

III. Into English Prose.

Thucyd. ii. 43-46.

Καὶ οἵδε μὲν προσηκόντως—ἄπιτε, Aristot. Ethic. vi. 5.

Διὰ τοῦτο Περικλέα

-ἀγαθὰ πρακτικήν.

1. Give the dates of the commencement and conclusion of the Peloponnesian War in years B. C. and in Olympiads.

2. State the causes, principal events, and consequences of this war. What part did Persia take in it? What was the greatest military and naval force employed in it, at one time, by the Athenian State?

3. Where and what was the adλiστov πроασtεiov mentioned in the beginning of this oration as a place of public burial? What sepulchres of eminent persons did it contain? In what instance was the custom of burying the slain in this place departed from, and why?

4. What is the character of the style of Thucydides? What is said of it by ancient authors? What Latin historian most resembles him in style? What expression has Thucydides made use of re

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garding the importance of his own work, and with what justice? Enumerate the principal Greek historians who preceded him.

5. What is the character of Pericles's eloquence? How is it described by Aristophanes? What line of policy was pursued by Pericles? What Statesman in the English history most resembles him?

6. (α) Σκοποῦντας μὴ λόγῳ μόνῳ τὴν ὠφέλειαν. Bekker in his edition reads peλíav. How are these two different forms of the word denominated by grammarians? Which is likely to be the true reading, and why?

(6) Ανδρῶν γὰρ ἐπιφανῶν πᾶσα γῆ τάφος. How has this sentiment been imitated by a Latin poet?

7. (c) τὸ εὔδαιμον, τὸ ἐλεύθερον. What force has the neuter article with an adjective?

(α) ανδρί γε φρόνημα ἔχοντι. What force has γε in this passage? 8. (e) ὀλοφύρομαι μᾶλλον ἢ παραμυθήσομαι. Do you perceive any singularity in this expression? In what species of writers may the same particularly be observed?

9. (f) επίστανται τραφέντες.

struction from Virgil.

(3) παραβαλλομένοι-παρηβήκατε.

Quote a similar mode of con

What are the different sig

nifications of the prepositions in these two compounds?

10. (h) φθόνος γὰρ τοῖς ζῶσι, κ. τ. λ. Illustrate this passage from Horace.

11. (i) τῆς τε γὰρ ὑπαρχούσης, κ. τ. λ. How has Euripides fattered the Athenians in their pride of ancestry?

(*) μὴ χείροσι γενέσθαι. Why is the dative case here used? What was the general condition of the female sex in ancient Greece? How did it differ in the more civilized ages from that in the heroic times? What effect had this condition upon the manners, morals, and literature of the Greeks?

12. (1) Εἴρηται καὶ ἐμοὶ λόγῳ— ἄπιτε.

KATȧ TÒν vóμov. To what law does this refer? By whom was it introduced into the Athenian State?

τὰ μὲν τὰ δέ. What is the peculiar signification of these particles thus used?

τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦδε δημοσία. Supply the ellipses in this expression.

ἡ πόλις μέχρι τῆς ἤβης θρέψει. What was the mode of education

here alluded to? and what privileges did the objects of it enjoy? What age is implied by της ήβης ?

στέφανον προτιθεῖσα. From what is the allusion here taken ? Why does the former of these words receive a double

τοῖσδέ τε. accentuation?

ἆθλα κεῖται ἀρετῆς. Illustrate this expression by a similar one from Demosthenes.

άπоλopνрáμεvοι. What is the derivation of this word? What were the principal funeral ceremonies observed by the Greeks?

1. Where was the birth-place of Aristotle? What remarkable benefit did he confer upon it? Where was he educated? Who was his principal instructor? Who his most celebrated pupil? Where did he teach? What was the name of his gymnasium, and the appellation of his sect? What was the distinction between his acroatic and exoteric philosophy? In what light did Aristotle seem to regard those works of the former kind which he published? Where did he die? and which of his pupils succeeded him in his school?

2. What was the fate of Aristotle's works? By whom were they brought to Rome, and who first performed the office of a skilful editor towards them? What influence have they had upon Philosophy in succeeding ages?

IV. Into Greek Iambics.
Hor. Epod. ii. 1-38.

V. Into English Prose.

Sallust. Bell. Jugurth. cap. 84.

"At Marius cupientissumâ

Liv. ii. 36.

-plerosque invaserat."

"Ludi forte-traditum memoriæ est."

Cic. Epist. Att.

Utrumque ex tuo consilio-litteras nunc expecto."

1. Relate the circumstances which immediately preceded this first

election of Marius to the Consulship, and state what causes contributed at this time to render him a favorite with the people.

Mention also in what manner, and from what orders of Citizens at this period, the Consuls were elected.

2. Postquam ei provinciam Numidiam populus jussit. this in conformity with the usual practice?

Was

On what occasion did the Romans first interfere in the affairs of Numidia? and when was the country reduced to a Roman province ?

3. Explain the expressions "postulare legionibus supplementum," "auxilia a populis arcessere," and "homines emeritis stipendiis."

4. "Neque plebi militia volenti putabatur." Explain the construction of these words, and quote instances of the same construction.

5. State what these "Ludi magni" were; mention when and by whom they were instituted, and what were the "spectacula" exhibited at them. Explain also the meaning of the phrase "ex instauratione."

6. From a review of the contents of this letter state your opinion as to the time when it was written. Mention also how far, and in what way Cicero and Atticus took a part, both then and subsequently, in the contest between Cæsar and Pompey.

7. Quote instances in which "oratio" is used in the same sense as in this passage.

8. Explain, by reference to the history of that period, what is meant by the words "Ego, inquam," "sic agam;" "Senatui non placere in Hispanias iri, nec exercitus in Græciam transportari."

9. Point out the difference in signification of the words amare and diligere; and translate "Te semper amavi dilexique." Cic. Ep. ad Fam. 15. 7.

10 "Qui comitatus!" Name some of the principal persons here alluded to as the adherents of Cæsar.

11. Explain the phrase actum ne agas: also the words "Extremum fuit de congressu nostro," and illustrate by quotations this use of the proposition "de".

12. Give the true meaning of the word "offendere." Translate the two expressions, "Non dubito quin hunc offendam :" and "Non dubito an hunc offendam."

VI. Into English Prose.

Pind. Pyth. iv. 22-87.

Κέκλυτε, παῖδες—καὶ Μυκηνᾶν.

1. V. 25-28.

Where was Thera, and from what state colonized? Who was the daughter of Epaphus? What the colony here predicted? when, and by whom, established? Explain the change foretold in 29-32,

2. V. 36. Tpwvidos. Describe its situation; and give a brief sketch of the supposed course of the Argonauts to account for its introduction. Explain in connection with this the fact mentioned in vv. 44-48.

3. Explain the sense of eidoμévw, how derived, v. 37. the quantity of the penult of ayrupav, v. 42. with exceptions either real or apparent; the formation of ἐπέτοσσε, ν. 43. ἐλθόντεσσιν, 54. βᾶμεν, 69. σπομέναν, 70.

4. Explain the construction of ovề áñíðŋσé viv, and produce examples of the different uses of viv in different dialects.

5. Who are the Aavaoì mentioned in v. 84.? With what propriety is the term used? What is the event referred to in the last three lines? Give the date usually assigned to the Argonautic expedition, and calculate the distance of time between the two events. Aristoph. Acharn. 593-617. 666-675.

1. V. 593. Give an account of the original institution of the Orparnyol, and the modification which the office subsequently underwent. Account for the use of the article before στρατηγόν.

2. V. 594. What is the third foot in this verse? Explain the general principle of the combination of letters lengthening a preceding short vowel; and shew from it what will be the effect produced by the concurrence of μv.

3. V. 598. Is there any error in this line, as it now stands? If so, correct it.

4. V. 602. At what period of the war, and by what circumstances, were military operations transferred to Thrace? Mention the principal events which occurred there, with dates. State the metrical canon bearing upon the quantity of paxuas, give apparent exceptions to it, and account for them. Give the value of the drachma, obolus, and mina; and mention from Aristophanes the daily pay of other services among the Athenians.

5. V. 603–6. Explain the allusions in these lines.