consensus efficit, non institutis opinio est confirmata, non legibus: omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est ;-quis est igitur, qui suorum mortem primum non eo lugeat, quod eos orbatos vitae commodis arbi

tretur?

(c) Continuata loco tria sidera, Corvus et Anguis, Et medius Crater inter utrumque iacet. Idibus illa latent, oriuntur nocte sequenti; Quae sibi cur tria sint consociata, canam.

(d) Heu! ubi pacta fides? ubi quae iurare solebas?
Me miseram, quotiens haec ego verba loquor!
Thesea culpabas, fallacemque ipse vocabas:
Iudicio peccas turpius ipse tuo.

Ne sciat hoc quisquam, tacitisque doloribus urar,
Ne totiens falli digna fuisse puter.

5. State the changes in the computation of the year involved in the Julian Kalendar?

6. Estimate the philosophical value of the Tusculan Disputations.

JUNIOR GREEK (COMPOSITION).

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Translate into Greek, after the style of DemosthenesDeath closes all, for the unjust and the just alike, but something can be done before the end befall us; and good men will essay every honourable quest that may from time to time present itself. For conscience' sake, for country, for fair fame, they will freely offer

themselves to peril, setting good hope before them as a buckler. This is what many did of your great men of old-witness the admiral that, with one small vessel, fought on for a day and a night against the giant fleet of the foe, or the other that, having lost an eye, turned his blind side to the signal for retreat; witness the long red line of those who, shoulder to shoulder, kept the Great Emperor at bay, or the six hundred that charged a whole army in the valley of death-nay, I could name ten thousand more who have been willing to die, that they might not behold the degradation of their country, a right and honourable resolution.

JUNIOR LATIN (COMPOSITION).
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Translate into Latin prose after the style of Cicero— There is nothing more mysterious than popular feeling, especially at election times. A candidate for office may slight an individual elector, and alienate a whole class. A haughty look during a house-to-house canvass may have given rise to a belief that he despises the general mass of his constituents. A downcast look in private may have disheartened his friends and supporters; and their activity in securing votes, at all times so necessary, may have declined. He may have dealt a death-blow to his candidature by angry threats of a Commission. In fact he may be a man of birth, ability, influence, one whose defeat no one would dream of; yet the lapse of a day or of a night may upset all calculations; a chance

breath of gossip may spring up from some wholly hidden source; and another, whose political qualifications are infinitely inferior, may be borne to success on what I may call the fitful tide of electoral excitement.

SENIOR GREEK (COMPOSITION).

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Translate into Greek, after the style of PlatoU. It has been a matter of argument, whether Poetry or History is the truer.

A. Has it? Who could ever feel a doubt on the point? History tells us everything that has really happened: whereas Poetry deals only with fictions, as they are called; that is, in plain English, with lies.

U. Gently! gently! Very few histories tell us what has really happened

A. What do you mean? History, good history at least, Thucydides, if you choose, tells us facts; and nothing can be so true as a fact.

U. Did you ever hear a story told two ways?

A. Yes, a score of ways.

U. Were they all true?

A. Probably not one of them.

U. There may be accounts of facts then, which are

not true.

A. To be sure, when people tell lies.

U. Often, very often, without. Every fact, you say, if correctly stated, is a truth.

A. Of course: it is only another word for the same thing.

U. Rather would I assert that a fact cannot be a truth. A. You will not easily persuade me of that.

U. I do not want to persuade you of anything, except to follow the legitimate dictates of your own reason. I would convince you, or rather help you to convince yourself, that a fact is merely the outward form and sign of a truth, its visible image and body; and that, of itself and by itself, it can no more be a truth, than a body by itself is a man: although common opinion in the former case, and common parlance in the latter, has trodden down the distinction.

SENIOR LATIN (COMPOSITION).

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1. Translate into Latin prose, after the style of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

Isabel. What says my brother?

Claud.

Death is a fearful thing.

Isabel. And shamed life a hateful.

Claud. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;

This sensible warm motion to become
[*=distraught]A kneaded clod; and the *delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;

C

To be imprisoned in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendent world; or to be worse than worst
Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts
Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!

The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise

To what we fear of death.

2. Briefly state any services rendered by Cicero to the Latin language.

COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY.

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1. What are our data for the choice of the startingplace of the Indo-European family?

Estimate their value, and compare the views hitherto entertained.

2. Distinguish (with illustration) between morphological and genealogical classification of languages.

3. On what grounds is a phonetic "law" based? State, with reasons, any "laws" you believe to be incontrovertible. Explain how the action of a phonetic law may sometimes be checked.

4. State succinctly the conditions which must be satisfied by an unquestioned etymology.