2. Beginning, Decreta Carthaginiensium et Hasdrubalis.... Ending, et versum in ipsum Hasdrubalem bellum. LIVY. 3. Beginning, Aliam deinde, inflatus assentationibus eorum, . . . . Ending, per causam aliquam in angustiis sustineret a tergo agmen. Ibid. 4. Beginning, Itaque Marcellus nocte navem onerariam cum.... Ending, quarum fama maior, quam res, erat, diriperentur. Ibid. 5. Beginning, Quod quum ita se habeat, cui deorum hominumve Ending, ut, quos privatim colimus, publice colamus. Ibid. 1. What the probable design of Livy in the composition of his History? 2. To what causes does Mommsen trace the effects which followed -the descents of the Romans on the African territory of Carthage? 3- Give some account of the subjugation of the Celtic tribes of North Italy, stating where their chief defeats occurred, and the probable reasons for their attack on the Romans. 4. To what considerations does Mommsen trace the policy of Hannibal in the conduct of his campaigns? 5. What provisions existed for controlling the powers of the Censors about 200 B. C.? 6. What circumstances tended to lower the value of the Latin franchise from the period of the second Punic war? 7. Ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent; nec qui paullullum titubassent, haerere afflicti vestigio suo. Translate this passage; and explain the last clause. 8. Hannibal id damnum haud aegerrime pati: quin potius credere, velut inescatam temeritatem ferocioris consulis esse. Translate this passage. sense as inescare? What is the Greek word used in the same 9. Et si quid argenti, quod plurimum in phaleris equorum erat; nam ad vescendum facto perexiguo, utique militantes, utebantur. Translate this passage. 10. Glorienturque Romani te, ad unum modo ictum vigentem, velut aculeo emisso torpere. Explain the reference in this passage, and the figure employed? 11. Si M. Claudio proconsuli aliter videretur faceret quod e republica fideque sua duceret: dum ne quis eorum munere vacaret, neu dono militari virtutis ergo donaretur, dum hostis in terra Italia esset. Translate and explain this passage. 12. Inde ubi id temporis visum, quo de die epulatis jam vini satias principiumque somni esset, signi unius milites ferre scalas jussit. Translate this passage. 13. Pythio Apollini lucris meritis donum mittitote, deque praeda, manubiis, spoliisque honorem habetote. Translate this passage; explaining any peculiar expressions in it. 14. Explain the terms, prorogatum imperium," "exauctoratus," "obnuntiare," quaestio perpetua." 99 66 dediticii, HERODOTUS. PROFESSOR BRADY. Translate the following:- I. Beginning, Πλεῦνος δὲ αἰεὶ γινομένου τοῦ ἐπιφοιτέοντος, κ. τ. λ. i. 97. 2. Beginning, ἐπεὰν δὲ ταῦτα ποιήσωσι, οὕτω ἐς τὴν, κ. τ. λ. ii. 85. 3. Beginning, Κλεομένεα δὲ λέγουσι ἡκόντων τῶν Σκυθέων, κ. τ. λ. Ending, ὁ Κλεομένης Δημαρήτῳ ἐκτῖσαι. vi. 84. 4. Beginning, "Ανδρες Πέρσαι, συγγνώμην μοι ἔχετε, κ. τ. λ. Ending, ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, ἥσυχοι ἔστε. vii. 13. 5. Beginning, ἐπεί τε δέ σφι Ἱππίης καλεόμενος ἧκε, κ. τ. λ. Ending, τάχα δέ τις καὶ ἄλλος ἐκμαθήσεται ἁμαρτών. v. 91. τῇ διαλέκτῳ I. Parse: ἐπήβησαν. ἀπέδεξε. ἐγκεχρημένοι. ἀνιεῦνται. ἀγωνίδαται. 2. Translate and explain: Εκαταῖος ὁ Μιλήσιος ἀκράτῳ Ἰάδι καὶ οὐ μεμιγμένῃ χρησάμενος οὐδὲ κατὰ τὸν Ἡρόδοτον ποικίλῃ, ἧττον ἐστιν ἑνεκά γε λέξεως ποιητικός. 3. (α). Mention the principal peculiarities of the Ionic dialect in the case of contracted verbs. (b). The Ionians adopted contraction in certain words where the Attic writers rejected it? 4. How has the circumstance been explained that Herodotus, although a native of the Dorian Halicarnassus, wrote in the lonic dialect? 5. ὑστέρῳ μέντοι χρόνῳ μετεμέλησέ τέ σφι (τοῖς Μήδοις) ταῦτα ποιήσασι καὶ ἀπέστησαν ἀπὸ Δαρείου, ἀποστάντες δὲ ὀπίσω κατεστρά φησαν, μάχῃ νικηθέντες (Ι. 130). How does this extract bear upon the question of the date of composition of Book I.? What light is thrown upon the passage by the Behistun Inscription ? 6. Πέρσας δὲ οἶδα νόμοισι τοιοισίδε χρεομένους (Ι. 131). Mention some of the more remarkable of these customs. 7. (α). Οὗτος ὁ πόλεμος συστὰς ἔσωσε τότε τὴν Ἑλλάδα.—vii. 144. What war? (5). αὗται δὲ αἱ νέες ἀρχὴ κακῶν ἐγίγνοντο Ἑλλησί τε καὶ βαρβάροισι. -v. 97. What ships? 8. The character of the Athenians peculiarly fitted them to take the lead in literature and art? Who were their predecessors in literary celebrity in Greece? 9. Point out the difficulties connected with the Herodotean account of the battles of (a) Marathon, and (b) Thermopylae. 10. Give some account of Hecataeus of Miletus. What was the title of his principal work? On what occasion is a map mentioned by Herodotus? 11. What do we read in Herodotus of Alcmaeon; Hippocleides Gorgo; Glaucus; Intaphernes? 12. Refer to and describe the localities of the principal oracles mentioned by Herodotus. The oracle sanctuaries were used for other purposes besides that of divination? What was the usual metre, and what the usual dialect of the responses? 13. Translate and explain : (α). νομέας μὲν τοῦ πλοίου . . . ἀπ ̓ ὧν ἐκήρυξαν. (δ). ὁ δὲ θεὸς γλυκὺν γεύσας τὸν αἰῶνα φθονερὸς ἐν αὐτῷ εὑρίσ (c). ζῶα γραψάμενος πᾶσαν τὴν ζεύξιν τοῦ Βοσπόρου. The approach of night, though it delivered the dejected Spaniards from the attacks of the enemy, ushered in what was hardly less grievous, the noise of their barbarous triumph, and of the horrid festival with which they celebrated their victory. Every quarter of the city was illuminated; the great temple shone with such peculiar splendour, that the Spaniards could plainly see the people in motion, and the priests busy in hastening the preparations for the death of the prisoners. Through the gloom, they fancied that they discerned their companions by the whiteness of their skins, as they were stript naked, and compelled to dance before the image of the god to whom they were to be offered. They heard the shrieks of those who were sacrificed, and thought that they could distinguish each unhappy victim by the well-known sound of his voice. Imagination added to what they really saw or heard, and augmented its horror. The most unfeeling melted into tears of compassion, and the stoutest heart trembled at the dreadful spectacle which they beheld. LATIN PROSE. They set out in the evening, and clambering up the rugged track with infinite fatigue as well as danger, they reached the summit unper ceived; and at an hour which had been agreed on, when Maurice began the assault on the one side of the castle, they appeared on the other, ready to scale the walls, which were feeble in that place, because it had been hitherto deemed inaccessible. The garrison, struck with terror at the sight of an enemy on a quarter where they had thought themselves perfectly secure, immediately threw down their arms. Maurice, almost without bloodshed, and, which was of greater consequence to him, without loss of time, took possession of a place the reduction of which might have retarded him long, and have required the utmost efforts of his valour and skill. LATIN VERSE. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, A different object do these eyes require; To warm their little loves the birds complain : Methinks, I am a prophet new inspir'd; For violent fires soon burn out themselves: Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder: Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 1. Give some account of the life of Eutropius, the chamberlain of the Emperor Arcadius. 2. Describe the three sieges of Rome by Alaric. 3. Write a note on the results of the sudden death of Attila. 4. State the leading points in the doctrine of Islam. 5. Write a short history of the reign of Leo the Isaurian. 6. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Verdun ? 7. What were the more important effects of the connexion of Germany with the Empire ? 8. Two of the Emperors were called "The Wonder of the World." For what reasons ? 9. Give some account of Dagobert, the Merovingian. 10. What was the cause of the recall of Louis d'Outremer from England, and what became of him? 11. The Fourth Crusade is intimately connected with French history. Write a short history of it. 12. What were the principal causes which eventually led to the decay and extinction of Feudalism in France? B. 1. Who was the father of Charles the Bald? 2. Of Charles the Fat? 3. Of Charles the Great ? 4. Of Charles the Simple? 7. Of accession of Philip Augustus ? 8. Of battle of Bouvines ? 9. Of battle of Pollentia ? 10. Of the Nika Riot at Constantinople? II. Who was the last of the Ostrogoth kings? 12. Origin of the Nibelungen-lied? 13. The battle of Testri marks an epoch in Frankish history? 14. Origin of the title "King of the Romans"? |