Ominibus. Sed regna Tyri germanus habebat Pygmalion, scelere ante alios immanior omnis, Quos inter medius venit Furor. Ille Sychæum Impius ante aras, atque auri cæcus amore, Clam ferro incautum superat, securus amorum Germanæ; factumque diu celavit, et ægram, Multa malus simulans, vana spe lusit amantem. Ipsa sed in somnis inhumati venit imago Conjugis: ora modis attollens pallida miris, Crudelis aras, trajectaque pectora ferro, Nudavit; cæcumque domûs scelus omne retexit. Tum celerare fugam patriaque excedere suadet, Auxiliumque viæ veteres tellure recludit Thesauros, ignotum argenti pondus et auri. His commota, fugam Dido sociosque parabat. Conveniunt, quibus aut odium crudele tyranni, Aut metus acer erat: navis, quæ forte paratæ, Corripiunt, onerantque auro. Portantur avari Pygmalionis opes pelago: dux femina facti. Devenere locos, ubi nunc ingentia cernes Monia, surgentemque novæ Carthaginis arcem; Mercatique solum, facti de nomine Byrsam, Taurino quantum possent circumdare tergo. Sed vos qui tandem, quibus aut venistis ab oris? Quove tenetis iter? Quærenti talibus ille, Suspirans, imoque trahens a pectore vocem:
O Dea! si prima repetens ab origine pergam, Et vacet annalis nostrorum audire laborum; Ante diem clauso componet vesper Olympo. Nos Troja antiqua, si vestras forte per auris Trojæ nomen iit, diversa per æquora vectos,
350. Distinguish Clam, occulte. 352. Parse simulans. Give a synonym. Why is spe in the abl.? 353. What is the root of imago? How does it come to signify an echo? 357. Parse Nudavit, retexit, celerare, and excedere. Distinguish suadere, persuadere, and horturi 359 Parse Thesauros and pondus. Give English derivatives from each. 363. Parse Corripiunt and onerant. Give their derivation, and the cases they govern. 367. Distinguish solum from terra. Translate astra tenent coeleste solum. 371. Parse imo pectore. Decline in all the degrees of comparison. 372. How is Dea distinguished from masculine nouns in us of the second declension? Why are pergam and vacet subj.? 374. Give the construction of clauso Olympo. Trace out Olympus on the map, and other mountains in the same country. 376. Parse iit. Is the verb eo ever rendered in English under a passive form? If so, give examples.
Forte sua Libycis tempestas appulit oris. Sum pius Æneas, raptos qui ex hoste Penates Classe veho mecum, fama super æthera notus. Italiam quæro patriam, genus ab Jove summo. Bis denis Phrygium conscendi navibus æquor, Matre dea monstrante viam, data fata secutus: Vix septem convolsæ undis Euroque, supersunt. Ipse ignotus, egens, Libya deserta peragro, Europa atque Asia pulsus. Nec plura querentem Passa Venus medio sic interfata dolore est:
Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus coelestibus auras Vitales carpis, Tyriam qui adveneris urbem. Perge modo, atque hinc te reginæ ad limina perfer. Namque tibi reduces socios, classemque relatam, Nuntio, et in tutum versis Aquilonibus actam; Ni frustra augurium vani docuere parentes. Adspice bis senos lætantis agmine cycnos, Etheria quos lapsa plaga Jovis ales aperto Turbabat cœlo: nunc terras ordine longo Aut capere, aut captas jam despectare, videntur. Ut reduces illi ludunt stridentibus alis, Et coetu cinxere polum, cantusque dedere; Haud aliter puppesque tuæ, pubesque tuorum Aut portum tenet, aut pleno subit ostia velo. Perge modo, et qua te ducit via, dirige gressum.
Dixit, et, avertens rosea cervice refulsit, Ambrosiæque comæ divinum vertice odorem Spiravere; pedes vestis defluxit ad imos,
Et vera incessu patuit dea. Ille, ubi matrem Agnovit, tali fugientem est voce secutus: Quid natum toties, crudelis tu quoque, falsis
382. Who were the Fates? Over what were they supposed to preside? What was their number? 385. What is the etymology of Europa? From what nymph is Asia fabled to have derived its name? What provinces did Asia Minor comprise? 386. When must est be expressed at the end of a verse, and in what cases omitted? 387. How are quidquid and quodquod used? What case has the former frequently with it? Give examples. 391. Parse Aquilonibus. Give the various names of the winds. Where does Virgil say they were placed? 398. Parse polum. Translate glacialis polus, australis polus, and poli. 402. Parse avertens and refulsit, and give derivatives from their roots. 403. Is there any difference between Ambrosia and Nectar? What properties were they said to possess? 404. Give instances of Spiro being intransitive as well as transitive.
Ludis imaginibus? cur dextræ jungere dextram Non datur, ac veras audire et reddere voces ? Talibus incusat, gressumque ad moenia tendit. At Venus obscuro gradientis aëre sepsit, Et multo nebulæ circum dea fudit amictu; Cernere ne quis eos, neu quis contingere posset, Molirive moram, aut veniendi poscere caussas. Ipsa Paphum sublimis abit, sedesque revisit Læta suas: ubi templum illi, centumque Sabæɔ Ture calent aræ, sertisque recentibus halant.
Corripuere viam interea, qua semita monstrat: Jamque adscendebant collem, qui plurimus urbi Imminet, adversasque adspectat desuper arces. Miratur molem Eneas, magalia quondam: Miratur portas, strepitumque, et strata viarum. Instant ardentes Tyrii: pars ducere muros, Molirique arcem, et manibus subvolvere saxa: Pars optare locum tecto, et concludere sulco. Jura magistratusque legunt, sanctumque senatum. Hic portus alii effodiunt: hic alta theatris Fundamenta locant alii, immanisque columnas Rupibus excidunt, scenis decora alta futuris. Qualis apes, æstate nova, per florea rura Exercet sub sole labor, quum gentis adultos Educunt fetus, aut quum liquentia mella Stipant, et dulci distendunt nectare cellas; Aut onera accipiunt venientum, aut, agmine facto, Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent: Fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella. O fortunati! quorum jam monia surgunt,
409. Parse agnovit, secutus, ludis, jungere, and give derivatives from each. Account for the double d in reddere. 417. What was incense? From what country was it obtained. Give an inceptive verb from caleo. Parse halant. What is halo, ōnis; hālītus? Distinguish serta and corollæ. 419 Explain the construction of qui plurimus, and how both words are m.? What governs urbi? 422. Give the root of strata, and an English word from it. 423. What are the infinitives in this sentence equivalent to? What is this construction called by grammarians? 426. Distinguish lex from jus. How many members were in the Roman senate in the times of Romulus, and from what ranks of the people were they chosen? When was the number increased? 427. Distinguish alius from alter. 428. What were columnæ in general? Characterise the columna ænea and the columna rostrata. 435. Distinguish pecus, ŏris, pecus, udis, and pecus, ûs. What sort of bees were the fuci?
Eneas ait, et fastigia suspicit urbis. Infert se septus nebula, mirabile dictu!
Per medios, miscetque viris; neque cernitur ulli. Lucus in urbe fuit media, lætissimus umbræ, Quo primum, jactati undis et turbine, Pœni Effodêre loco signum, quod regia Juno Monstrârat, caput acris equi; sic nam fore bello Egregiam, et facilem victu per sæcula, gentem. Hic templum Junoni ingens Sidonia Dido Condebat, donis opulentum et numine diva: Ærea cui gradibus surgebant limina, nexæque Ære trabes; foribus cardo stridebat aënis. Hoc primum in luco nova res oblata timorem Leniit: hic primum Æneas sperare salutem Ausus, et afflictis melius confidere rebus. Namque, sub ingenti lustrat dum singula templo, Reginam opperiens, dum, quæ fortuna sit urbi, Artificumque manus inter se, operumque laborem, Miratur, videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas, Bellaque, jam fama totum volgata per orbem, Atridas, Priamumque, et sævum ambobus Achillem. Constitit; et, lacrimans, Quis jam locus, inquit, Achate, Quæ regio in terris nostri non plena laboris ? En Priamus! Sunt hic etiam sua præmia laudi : Sunt lacrimæ rerum; et mentem mortalia tangunt. Solve metus; feret hæc aliquam tibi fama salutem. Sic ait, atque animum pictura pascit inani, Multa gemens, largoque humectat flumine voltum. Namque videbat, uti bellantes Pergama circum Hac fugerent Graii, premeret Trojana juventus: Hac Phryges; instaret curru cristatus Achilles.
443. What is the sense of signum here? Distinguish it from statua. Translate canere signum, inferre signa, and movere signa. 448. What parts of Roman houses were the limen, culmen, vestibulum, janua, and atrium? 449. Distinguish fores and porta. How is it that the word cardinal is derived from cardo 453. Why is the verb lustrare sometimes translated "to purify?" Account for the case of templo. 454. Give the composition of opperiens. Why is sit subj? 455. How is inter se translated after contrarius? 463. Give the construction of salutem tibi. 465. Give the derivation of humectat, and the construction of voltum flumine. 467. Why are fugerent and premeret subj., and in different numbers? Mention all the conjunctions which regularly or occasionally take the subj. mood.
Nec procul hinc Rhesi niveis tentoria velis Agnoscit lacrimans; primo quæ prodita somno Tydides multa vastabat cæde cruentus; Ardentisque avertit equos in castra, priusquam Pabula gustâssent Troja, Xanthumque bibissent. Parte alia fugiens amissis Troilus armis, Infelix puer, atque impar congressus Achilli, Fertur equis, curruque hæret resupinus inani, Lora tenens tamen: huie cervixque comæque trahuntur Per terram, et versa pulvis inscribitur hasta. Interea ad templum non æquæ Palladis ibant Crinibus Iliades passis, peplumque ferebant, Suppliciter tristes, et tunsæ pectora palmis: Diva solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat.
Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora muros, Exanimumque auro corpus vendebat Achilles. Tum vero ingentem gemitum dat pectore ab imo, Ut spolia, ut currus, utque ipsum corpus amici, Tendentemque manus Priamum conspexit inermis. Se quoque principibus permixtum agnovit Achivis, Eoasque acies, et nigri Memnonis arma. Ducit Amazonidum lunatis agmina peltis Penthesilea furens, mediisque in millibus ardet, Aurea subnectens exsertæ cingula mammæ, Bellatrix; audetque viris concurrere virgo.
Hæc dum Dardanio Æneæ miranda videntur, Dum stupet, obtutuque hæret defixus in uno; Regina ad templum, formâ pulcherrima, Dido Incessit, magna juvenum stipante caterva.
469. Who was Rhesus, and in what year of the siege did he come to the aid of the Trojans? Give the root of tentoria. 471. Who was Tydides? What part did he take in the Trojan war? 472. Describe the form of the Roman castra. Translate ponere castra, movere castra, and navalia castra. What towns in Britain are supposed to have been built on the sites of Roman camps? 473. Where was the river Xanthus? Distinguish bibere from potare. How may quum bibisset be translated as a part.? 476. What changes take place with fero, rapio, teneo, habeo, and tango, when compounded with prepositions? 478. In what case is hasta, and why? What were the offensive and defensive weapons of the Roman soldier? 481. Compare the adverbs suppliciter, celeriter, fortiter, audacter, pulchre, bene, male, magnopere, and parum. 486. What was the spotia opima? 489. Why is Evas employed here? Distinguish niger from ater. 493. Which of the compounds of curro sometimes double the first syllable of their primitive in the perfect, and which not? 496. Of what word is templum a dim.? Distinguish it from ædes, fanum, and delubrum.
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