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2. (a). Beginning, St. Intro abi, atque actutum uxorem huc evoca ante aedis cito.....

Ending, Eumque incumbam. Sed progreditur optume, eccum,

Olympio.

PLAUT. Cas. ii. 5, 16–28.

(b). Beginning, Quisquis praetereat, comissatum volo vocari. Sa. Con

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venit,. Ending, Imperium te inhibere mavis? Sa. Nimio liquido Libero. PLAUT. Stich. v. 4, 4–18.

3. (a). Beginning, Estne novis nuptis odio Venus, anne parentum.... Ending, Iupiter, ut tristi lumina saepe manu! Catull., 64, 15–30. (b). Beginning, Quid facient crines, cum ferro talia cedant?.... Ending, Devotae flavi verticis exuviae.

Ib., 47-62.

4. (a). Beginning, Sic venias hodierne, tibi dem turis honores,.... Ending, Sternitur, hic apta iungitur arte silex.

TIB., i. 7, 53-60.

(b). Beginning, Interea, tacito passu labentibus annis,. Ending, Maius erat nostris viribus illud onus.

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Ov., Trist. 27-37.

5. Beginning, Balteus en! gemmis, en! illita porticus auro,. Ending, Aurea cum croceo creverunt arbuta libro.

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CALPURN., Ecl. vii. 29-59.

GREEK VERSE.

Pet. Come on, i' God's name; once more toward our father's.

Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!

Kath. The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now.

Pet. I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
Kath. I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
Pet. Now, by my mother's son, and that's myself,

It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,

Or ere I journey to your father's house.
Go on, and fetch our horses back again.

Evermore cross'd and cross'd: nothing but cross'd!
Hor. Say as he says, or we shall never go.
Kath. Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:
An if you please to call it a rush-candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
Pet. I say it is the moon.
Kath.
Pet. Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun.
Kath. Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun:
But the sun it is not, when you say it is not;
And the moon changes even as your mind.
What you will have it named, even that it is;
And so it shall be so for Katharine.

I know it is the moon.

SHAKSPEARE.

LATIN VERSE.

Why, Damon, with the forward day
Dost thou thy little spot survey,
From tree to tree with doubtful cheer
Pursue the progress of the year,
What winds arise, what rains descend-
When thou before that year shalt end?

Vain wretch! canst thou expect to see
The downy peach make court to thee?
Or that thy sense shall ever meet
The bean-flower's deep-embosom'd sweet
Exhaling with an evening blast ?
Thy evenings then will all be past.

Thy narrow pride, thy fancied green
(For vanity's in little seen),
All must be left when Death appears,
In spite of wishes, groans, and tears;
Nor one of all thy plants that grow
But rosemary shall with thee go.

SEWELL.

MR. ABBOTT.

Translate the following passages:

Beginning, Secutae ingenti certamine eiusdem provinciae ..
Ending, raro simulatione vinculorum frustratur.

TACITUS, Hist., lib. i. cc. 57, 58.

. Beginning, Lepidum, quo excidat! Consules flagrant infamia,.... Ending, optio delata commodum, ut ad me scribit.

CICERO, ad Att., lib. iv. epist. xviii.

SENECA, Epist. xc.

Beginning, Hodie utrum tandem sapientiorem putas,...
Ending, quae terra posuit in summo.

. Beginning, Ordo est honestus. Quis negat? Ending, ut HS terdeciens uno nomine auferret ?

CICERO, Verr., act II. lib. iii.

Translate into Latin Prose :

Courage, that makes us bear up against dangers that we fear, and vils that we feel, is of great use in an estate, as ours is in this life, exposed to assaults on all hands: and therefore it is very advisable to get hildren into this armour as early as we can. Natural temper, I coness, does here a great deal: but even where that is defective, and the heart is in itself weak and timorous, it may, by a right management, be rought to a better resolution. What is to be done to prevent breaking

children's spirits by frightful apprehensions instilled into them when young, or bemoaning themselves under every little suffering, I have already taken notice. How to harden their tempers, and raise their courage, if we find them too much subject to fear, is farther to be considered.

True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets, or danger lies in his way. This there are so few men attain to, that we are not to expect it from children. But yet something may be done; and a wise conduct, by insensible degrees, may carry them farther than one expects.

The neglect of this great care of them, whilst they are young, is the reason, perhaps, why there are so few that have this virtue, in its full latitude, when they are men. I should not say this in a nation so naturally brave as ours is, did I think that true fortitude required nothing but courage in the field, and a contempt of life in the face of an enemy. LOCKE.

MR. GRAY.

Translate the following passages :—

1. Beginning, Ούτοι μὲν οἱ παραθαλάσσιοι τῶν νομάδων, κ. τ. λ. Ending, επίκλησιν δὲ αὕτη ἡ κρήνη καλέεται ἡλίου.

HERODOTUS, lib. iv. cap. 181.

2. Beginning, καὶ τὴν εἰωθυῖαν ἀξίωσιν τῶν ὀνομάτων, κ. τ. λ. Ending, καὶ τῷ μὲν αἰσχύνονται, ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ ἀγάλλονται.

THUCYDIDES, lib. iii. cap. 82.

3. Beginning, Επεὶ δ ̓ ἐστὶν ἐνίοις γεγραμμένα περὶ τούτων, κ. τ. λ. Ending, ἀλλ ̓ οὐ τοῦτ' ἐστὶ, περὶ ὃ σπουδάζουσι.

ARISTOTLE, Politicor., lib. i. cap. 4.

4. Beginning, Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ πάντων τούτων χρόνος ἐτελεώθη, κ. τ. λ. Ending, πρὶν εἰς τὸν νῦν κόσμον ἀφικέσθαι.

PLATO, Politic., 273.

DEMOSTHENES, Pro Phorm., 34.

5. Beginning, 'Ακούσας τοίνυν ἡμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρες 'Αθηναῖοι, κ. τ. λ. Ending, εἴκοσι καὶ ὀκτὼ δραχμὰς ̓Αττικάς.

Write Essays on any two or more of the following subjects:—

A.-I. The religion of Homer, the religion of Pindar, and the religion of Aeschylus.

2. Greek colonies in the West to the fall of Sybaris.

3. Aristophanes, in relation to the religion and politics of his time.

4. The Spartan supremacy from the fall of Athens to B. C. 371. B.-1. The Fabulae Atellanae and the Mimi.

2. The political system of Caius Gracchus.

3. The Roman Imperial administration as founded on a combination of several Republican offices in the person of the Emperor.

4. The religion of the Ciceronian period and of the Tacitean period.

Moderatorships in Mental and Moral Science.

Examiners.

JAMES MAC IVOR, D. D., Professor of Moral Philosophy.

JOHN W. STUBBS, D. D.

GEORGE F. SHAW, LL. D.

ARTHUR PANTON, M. A.

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1. a. The Natural Realism of the Scottish School is essentially inconsistent?

b. Trace the error on which it splits.

c. In the Scoto-Oxonians it had become utterly self-contradictory and nihilistic? Exemplify.

2. State, in not less than four, or more than six, short propositions, any outline of Natural Realism that seems to you self-consistent.

3. Give a brief outline of any Idealist system which you think consistent (1) with itself, and (2) with any acknowledged fact, such as the existence of two persons.

4. Dividing the actual process of contact or observation of external things into the following stages-(1) the external Object; (2) its physical Impression on us; (3) the Sensation resulting; (4) the Percept; (5) the Concept; (6) the Idea; (7) the Action; and (8) a possible Modification of the object:

a. Distinguish carefully between 3, 4, 5, and 6.

b. How far does Locke distinguish or confound them?

c. How many stages appear in Kant, and in what order? Where expressly is his "object"?

d. Contrast any such "objects" with the Objects (1) :—1, as individual things; and, 2, in their aggregates.

5. a. Apply the above analysis to answer the question "Is it the real table that we see ?"

b. The scientific value of the "percept," as distinguished from " con. cept" or "idea," is very easily exhibited ?

c. Its partialness is of the essence of its 'ruth? and its variations are the basis of a most important demonstration?

d. Compare it with "momentary aspect," "simple apprehension," and the German "intuition"?

e. Taking "the sensation," No. 3, for the whole pathological element, where lies its chief importance—(1) in the momentary contact? and (2) in the subsequent developments?

6. a. In what part or parts of the above process may relations be discerned?

b. The essential condition of their being seen?

c. They are invisible, therefore, to the Kantian or German Intuition, but are the immediate object of the Lockian?

d. The omission of Locke's Intellectual Intuition is fatal to most schemes of Psychology and Metaphysics. Exemplify.

e. Yet the truth it expounds is the basis of Idealism?

7. a. The essential agreement and essential difference between Ancient and Modern Idealism?

b. Their essential difference from Realism?

c. On the modern conception of Realism-" belief in real things external to the mind "-Plato was a Double Realist? Explain his classification among the Schoolmen.

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d. And even Kant makes some claims to Realism? What "objects' external to the mind did he admit? Are these "things or "persons"? What gives a title to inclusion in his intelligible world? Is this itself external or internal to the mind?

8. a. Describe the historic origin of Modern Idealism, i. stituting ideas for things.

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b. Trace carefully its first steps from Locke to Kant inclusive.

9. Show in what senses, and how far, the following authors are Realist, and how far Idealist :

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(1) Locke himself, (2) Hume, (3) Berkeley, (4) Kant, (5) Bishop Butler, and (6) the Scottish School.

10. a. Locke's prime division of the mental faculties into (1) Sense external and internal; (2) Understanding; (3) Reason; is followed almost universally, yet the functions assigned are strangely inverted and confused. Explain this.

b. State broadly the offices of each in the four systems of (1) Locke himself, (2) Berkeley, (3) Hume, and (4) Kant.

c. Spend any remaining time in criticising the division itself or any of its modern forms.

II.-Action.

1. a State the question at issue between (1) Bishop Butler, (2) Hobbes, and (3) the Stoics, as to the nature and value of The Affections.

b. Describe accurately the line taken by Kant on the subject. c. Assuming the exclusion of feeling to be the characteristic of Stoicism, mark the two purest and most influential Stoics of modern times. d. They were both of Scottish descent. Is this significant ?

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