Quid genus, aut virtus, aut optima profuit illi GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give some account of the earliest efforts of Greek literature. Describe the rise of the Epos from them. 2. Explain the term "elegy," and give an account of the principal Greek writers in this kind. 3. How does ancient tragedy differ from the modern? Trace the development of tragic representations up to the time of Euripides. 4. Give a chronological table of the Attic orators. What part did the "Sophists" play in the determination of rhetorical matter and style? 5. Describe the growth and characteristics of the Alexandrian School of Greek literature. Do you find any parallels in other literary histories, ancient or modern? 6. What do you know of the carmen Saliorum, Fescennini versus, Atellanae fabulae? 7. "The first writers of Roman literature were not Prove this statement, and account for Romans." 8. Explain the term comoedia palliata. Give a critical estimate of the work of Plautus and of Terence. 9. In what branch of literature were the Romans most original? Give a brief history of this branch till 120 A.D. 10. Classify according to subject-matter the works of Cicero, Varro, and Seneca respectively. COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. The Board of Examiners. 1. What other families of speech exist besides the Indo-European? Name the groups into which these families can be further divided. What are our earliest data for the languages of the Kelts, Winds, and Scandinavians? 2. How would you discover the fundamental idea in a family of words? Take some root and shew the influence of metaphor upon its history. 3. "Where cognate words appear in the same language or in different languages under various forms, the original root is to be sought according to the following rules Supply these rules and their modifications. Discuss and illustrate the changes assumed in identifying the root of the following words:-(i) vipe, ninguit, snow. (ii) heri, yesterday. (iii) lupus, wolf. (iv) Diana, Zɛùs. (v) anser, goose. (vi) Bios, quick. 4. Select for full discussion one subject in each of the following groups : A. Latin The treatment of the original aspirates, the change of s to r. or, B. Greek{ expansion of original A. The treatment of original J, or, the 5. State the real and the apparent exceptions to Grimm's law. 6. Derive, through all their steps, and supply the cognates of rufus, fores, bimus, mors, sollicitus, Pompeius, lis, deck, historical, même, &pa, εikoσi, εἶμα, ῥέω. 7. Give the history you deem most credible of the person-endings of the Greek verb in the present indicative active. Discuss the connexion between legit and λέγει. 8. What is the most generally accepted theory of the origin of the Latin passive inflections? 9. Explain the variety in (i) γουνὸς, γόνατος. (ii) βασιλῆος, βασιλέως. (iii) Ερμαο, Ερμου. (iv) magistreis, magistri. GENERAL PAPER. The Board of Examiners. 1. To what use may the knowledge of Greek accentuation be ultimately turned? 2. The old style of classical learning aimed at a fluency of reading and writing in dead languages. Compare this object with the more minute modern style in respect of practical utility. 3. Explain the origin of the Latin numeral-signs V, X, C, D, M. State the Roman method of denominating sums of money. 4. Explain N.L.-H.M.H.N.S.-dín Tμntós-licet antestari ?cui bono ?οὐδὲν πρὸς Διόνυσον αὐτὸς ἔφα-λύσω τὴν ἐμὴν ἦν. 5. Under what circumstances does quod require a subjunctive to follow? Quote or invent illus trations. 6. Define the uses of δ ̓ οὖν—μὲν οὖν—non quo—μὴ οὐτοὐ μὴ—tamquam-οὐ πάνυ—ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν— nescio an. Give instances of important changes in idiom between Cicero and Tacitus. 7. What do you know of the philosophic views or attitudes of Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Carneades, Cicero, Horace, Lucian, Lucan? 8. Draw an outline sketch of Attica with the principal demes; also an enlarged sketch of Athens and its port. 9. Describe the working of the Athenian xxλnoia. 10. Emend, from the uncials, où povevs avrou el, días εἰ ἄρα που θανεῖται. GREEK COMPOSITION. The Board of Examiners. 1. Translate into Greek prose— The arguments he used against this new law were that it was better for a few undeserving persons to enjoy such privileges, than that gifts which the State had bestowed should be withdrawn, and the national faith be broken; that a slur would be cast upon democratic government; that it was of supreme importance that Athens, as the noblest representative of Greece, should value above all things a character for justice, generosity, and public spirit; that all human legislation must take possibilities and contingencies into account; and that the law was an offence to Nemesis, which ever waits on arrogance and presumption. He reminded his hearers of an occasion when they had contributed to discharge a debt due to the Lacedæmonians who had injured them; and would it not be shameful, now that they had it in their power to do justice to benefactors, if they preferred to break their word? Such an envious, grudging, spirit was most alien to Athenian feeling. Did they envy funeral orations, or rewards to those who win in gymnastic contests, because but few are born to partake of them ?—and had the State ever been surpassed in requiting services? |