public examination. Homer is commonly a subject for the third year at Trinity; at the other Colleges, those persons who are candidates for Mathematical honours are exempted from the interruption of classical lectures; the rest are kept employed upon the six first books of the Iliad and Æneid, which form the classical part of the examination for ordinary degrees.

2. From what Historians is it supposed that he derived any information?

3. About what time does the history of Greece begin to be authentic? state how long after the time of Moses, and how much earlier than the age of Herodotus.

4. Which were the principal Oracles consulted by Croesus? were their answers derived from human contrivance or some supernatural causes? state the reasons usually given for both opinions.

5. Give some explanation of the Fable of Arion.

6. What were the principal dialects of the Greek language? explain the term κοίνη γλώσση-mention some of the peculiarities of the Ionic dialect-change the following words to the common tongue :θησάμενον βασιληΐην· πιθὼν ἐγινέατο απίκατο αποδε δέχαται· ετετάχατον ἀνακέαται.

7. Translate, and supply the ellipses in these passages:

(1.) ἤδε δέ σφι καὶ ἡ πολλὴ τῆς Πελοποννήσου ἦν κατεστραμμένη(2.) ἐπινοήσας τὰ ἦν ἀμήχανον ἐξευρεῖν τε καὶ ἐπιφράσασθαι. 8. Draw a map of Asia Minor; mark the boundaries of the conquests of Croesus; shew the courses of the Rivers Halys and Hæmus; point out the positions of Sardes, Miletus, Ephesus, Smyrna, Phocæa; the Islands Chios, Rhodus, and Samos.

9. Give some account of the Cimmerians.

10, 11. Different passages to translate.

CORPUS CHRISTI COLL. 1821.

1. Translate the following passages into English :

Ορμᾶσθαι μέν νυν ἐκ Τάραντος

καὶ ἀπικόμενον απηγέεσθαι πᾶν τὸ γεγονός.

Εἰρωτῶσι δὲ ταῦτα τοῖσι θεοπρόποισι

cap. 24.

-ἤδη δέ σφι καὶ ἡ πολλὴ τῆς Πελοποννήσου ἦν κατεστραμμένη.—cap. 67.

Τὸ δὲ ἁπάντων θώυμα μέγιστόν

-ἄλλα τρόπῳ τῷ αὐτῷ ποιεῦνται πλοῖα.—cap. 194.

2. Cap. 6. Οὗτος ὁ Κροῖσος, βαρβάρων πρῶτος, τῶν ἡμεῖς ἴδμεν, τοὺς μὲν κατεστρέψατο Ἑλλήνων ἐς φόρου ἀπαγωγὴν, τοὺς δὲ, φίλους προσεποιήσατο.-Explain the use of the middle verb in this passage.

3. Παρὰ τούτων Ἡρακλεῖδαι ἐπιτραφθέντες (al. ἐπιτραφέντες) ἔσχον τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐκ θεοπροπίου-cap. 7. Render this passage according to both readings ; and corroborate your translation of ἐπιτραφθέντες by quotations from Homer or Herodotus.

4. Render the words οὕτω ὧν πᾶν ἐστι ἄνθρωπος συμφορή· ἐμοὶ δὲ καὶ σὺ πλουτέειν μὲν μέγα φαίνεαι, καὶ βασιλεὺς εἶναι πολλῶν ἀνθρω πῶν· ἐκεῖνο δὲ τὸ εἴρεό με, οὔκω σε ἐγὼ λέγω, πρὶν ἂν τελευτήσαντα καλῶς τὸν αἰῶνα πύθωμαι—cap. 32. Support your interpretation of συμφορὴ and φαίνεαι—also render the two phrases πρὶν ἂν τελευτήσαντα ... πύθωμαι, and πρὶν ἂν τελευτήσασθαι πύθωμαι.

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5. ̓Απικνέεται ἐς τὰς Σάρδις ανὴρ συμφορῇ ἐχόμενος, καὶ οὐ καθαρὸς χεῖρας ἐων. παρελθὼν δὲ οὗτος ἐς τὰ Κροίσου οἰκία, κατὰ νόμους τοὺς ἐπιχωρίους καθαρσίου ἐδέετο κυρῆσαι· Κροῖσος δέ μιν ἐκάθηρε, ἐπεί δὲ τὰ νομιζόμενα ἐποίησε ὁ Κροῖσος, ἐπυνθάνετο ὁκόθεν τε καὶ τίς εἴη, λέγων τάδε· Ωνθρωπε, τίς τε ἐων, καὶ κόθεν τῆς Φρυγίης ἥκων, ἐπίστιος ἐμοὶ ἐγένεο ; τίνα τε ἀνδρῶν ἢ γυναικῶν ἐφόνευσας—cap. 35. Translate this passage. Was all this in conformity with the manners of the age ? Explain ἐπίστιος, and mention other instances which may occur to you of the same custom. Describe the ceremonies alluded to by the words τὰ νομιζόμενα ἐποίησε.

6. Explain the use of καταφρονήσαντες in the passage καταφρονήσαντες ̓Αρκάδων κρέσσονες εἶναι—cap. 66. and distinguish κρείσσων and αμείνων.

7. "Επεμπε θεοπρόπους ἐς τοὺς ἐξηγητέας Τελμησσέων—cap. 78. Who were these ἐξηγηταί ? Where was this oracle: and who was from whom it derived its name?

the person

8. Τῷ δὲ Κροίσῳ ἐστεῶτι ἐπὶ τῆς πυρῆς, ἐσελθεῖν, καί περ ἐν κακῷ ἐόντι τοσούτῳ, τὸ τοῦ Σόλωνος, ὡς οἱ εἴη σὺν θεῷ εἰρημένον, τὸ “ Μηδένα εἶναι τῶν ζώντων ὄλβιον.” ὡς δὲ ἄρα μιν προστῆναι τοῦτο, ἀνενεικάμενόν τε καὶ ἀναστενάξαντα ἐκ πολλῆς ἡσυχίης, ἐς τρὶς ὀνομάσαι Σόλωvacap. 86. Translate this passage. Explain the phrase ώς μιν προστῆναι τοῦτο ; and support your translation of ανενεικάμενον.

9. Φασὶ δὲ αὐτοὶ Λυδοὶ... καὶ Τυρσηνίην αποικίσαι-cap. 94. Do Horace and Virgil mention this? If so, quote passages of these poets wherein allusion is made to it.

10. Μῆδοι δὲ ὑπέκυψαν Πέρσησι, ἄρξαντες τῆς ἄνω "Αλους ποταμοῦ Ασίης ἐπ ̓ ἔτεα τριήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν δυῶν δέοντα, πάρεξ ἢ ὅσον οἱ Σκύ θαι ἦρχον—cap. 130. When did this empire of the Medes commence, and under what kings did it continue? What extent of country is to be understood by the expression ή άνω"Αλους ποταμοῦ Ασίη ; and how far, according to his history, did Herodotus's knowledge of Asia extend? What appear to have been his ideas respecting the eastern boundary of Europe beyond the Euxine?

11. Give, from Herodotus, (cap. 131, 132.) some account of the worship of the Persians, and of the ceremonies observed by them in offering up sacrifices.

12. What events in Greece occasioned the Æolic and Ionic migrations ? What extent of country, according to Herodotus, was occupied by the Ionic settlers? Name the principal cities situated within this territory.

13. Give Herodotus's description of the tower of Belus. What, according to him, were its dimensions? Give them in English feet. Did any other building of antiquity equal or exceed this in magnitude?

14. Γενομένου δὲ τούτου τοιούτου

—νῦν δὲ ἐξ ἀπροσδοκήτου σφι παρέστησαν οἱ Πέρσαι—cap. 191. Translate this passage. What is the mood, tense and voice of ἐτετάχατο ? With what tenses of the indicative mood is the particle av joined in a contingent or conditional sense?

15. Ἡ δὲ Κασπίη θάλασσα, ἔστι ἐπ ̓ ἑωυτῆς, οὐ συμμίσγουσα τῇ ἑτερῇ θαλάσσῃ τὴν μὲν γὰρ Ἕλληνες ναυτίλλονται πᾶσαν, καὶ ἡ ἔξω

στηλέων θάλασσα, καὶ ἡ Ἐρυθρή, μία τυγχάνει ἐοῦσα—cap. 202. Is this correct? If so, whence could Herodotus have derived his information? When, and by whose orders had Africa been circumnavigated before his time? Give his account of this voyage. Give the modern names of the Seas here mentioned by him. When and by what modern navigator was the Cape of Good Hope passed, and the first voyage to India made?

16. Where does Herodotus place the Massagetæ? Give his account of the expedition of Cyrus against this people. Does Xenophon's account of the death of Cyrus agree with that of Herodotus? If not, which do you consider most entitled to credit; and why?

17. Give the mood, tense, and voice of ¿dedéaro-cap. 66. of λυπεοίατο-cap. 99. οι κεχωρίδαται—cap. 140. and of ἠνείκαντο cap. 173. and write down each of these verbs in the common form.

What is also the common form of μέζων-cap. 202. οἱ τριξα (καὶ opi τpiža ¿ževpńμara έyevero--cap. 171) of öre-cap. 95. and of ἐπίπλοα—cap. 94. (..πλοῖα, ἐς τὰ ἐσθεμένοι τὰ πάντα ὅσα σφι ἦν χρηστὰ ἐπίπλου, αποπλέουσι....)

18. Mention the principal dialects of ancient Greece, and the districts where each peculiarly prevailed. Give the futures, Attice, and Ionice, of σημαίνω, καλέω, χαρίζομαι, σκεδάζω and μένω.

19. Give some account of the manner in which Lycurgus changed the constitution of Sparta (μετέστησε τὰ νόμιμα πάντα, καὶ ἐφύλαξε ταῦτα μὴ παραβαίνειν . . . . cap. 65.)

20. Draw maps; (1.) of Asia Minor within the river Halys, shewing the situation of its several provinces; the course of the Mæander, Caicus, Granicus and Halys. (2.) of Greece within the isthmus of Corinth.

21. What are the modern names of Enotria and Cyrnus mentioned in the account of the Phocæans-cap. 166, 167? Point out the situation, and give the modern name of the people called by Herodotus 'EverToí. How far westward does it appear this historian's knowledge of Europe extended?