4. Account for σφᾶς and πλεῖστοι in (α); give a really adequate rendering of (6) ; emend (c). (α) αἰφνίδιοι γὰρ ἢν προσπέσωσιν μάλιστα ἂν σφᾶς περιγίγνεσθαι . . . πλεῖστοι γὰρ ἂν νῦν φανῆναι, καὶ τῇ προσδοκίᾳ ὧν πείσονται. (6) οἷς τὸ μὴ ἐπιχειρούμενον ἀεὶ ἐλλιπὲς ἦν τῆς δοκήσεως τι πράξειν. (ε) ὅσα ἀπὸ γῆς καὶ δικαστηρίων νῦν ὠφελοῦνται. 5. Scan the following, and point out any irregular metrical feature which may occur. Also translate each passage:— (α) οὐχ ἱππαλεκτρύονας μὰ Δι ̓ οὐδε τραγελάφους ἅπερ σύ. (6) καὶ τοῦ κύκλου παρέτρωγον ὑφ ̓ ἁρματωλίας. (ε) τὴν βασιλίδα μούνην λοιπήν. (α) πεπέρακεν μὲν ὁ Περσέπτολις ἤδη Μαρικᾶς. 6. Write a note on each of the following passages from Aeschylus : (α) τί τάδε δυνάτα δυνάτα περὶ τῷ σῷ δίδυμα δι ̓ ἄνοιαν ἁμάρτια πάσα γα (δ) πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίας μήτηρ ἀοσσητῆρος. (ε) ΚΛ. καὶ μὴν τόδ' εἰπὲ μὴ παρὰ γνώμην ἐμοί. (d) ΑΓ. γνώμην μὲν ἴσθι μὴ διαφθεροῦντ ̓ ἐμέ. ΚΛ. ηὔξω θεοῖς δείσας ἂν ὧδ ̓ ἔρδειν τάδε; φελλοὶ δ ̓ ὡς ἄγουσι δίκτυον τὸν ἐκ βυθοῦ κλωστῆρα σώζοντες λίνου. 1. Write critical notes on the following passages, commenting specially on the italicised words: state what are the Ms. readings, and what the most probable correction: or, if there are no variants, comment on and illustrate the reading given : (α) Quem tu scilicet ad tuum Catullum Misti continuo ut die periret Saturnalibus, optimo dierum.—Catullus. (6) Quoi faveam potius ? Caeli tibi, nam tua nobis Per facta exhibita est unica amicitia Cum vesana meas torreret flamma medullas.-Ibid. (c) Dindymus et sacrae fabricata inventa Cybele.-Propertius. (d) Et qui movistis duo litora cum rudis Argus Dux erat ignoto missa columba mari.-Ibid. (e) Ingerat Apriles Iole tibi, tundat Amycle Natalem Maiis Idibus esse tuum.-Ibid. (f) Namque papaveris aura potest suspensa levisque (g) Huic lenta et pulchra in pedibus Sicyonia rident, (h) Consequiae quoque iam rerum ex ordine certo.-Ibid. (i) Conditor ut tardae laesus cognomine Myrrhae Orbis in innumeris inveniare locis.-Ovid. 2. What are the meanings of the following words, and where are they found :-lambero, carinare, sardare, reduvia, succidia, serperastra, conticinium, centunculus, rufulus, clarigatio, merga? 3. Discuss the metrical questions involved in the following lines :(a) Verum ubi equi atque hominis casu convenit imago. (b) “Quid tibi vis insane et quam rem agis" improbus urget? 4. Discuss the question as to the genuineness of the early poems attributed to Virgil. 5. Discuss the question of the genuineness of the Dialogus de Oratoribus attributed to Tacitus. 6. Write out a scheme of the Galliambic metre as written by Catullus Three lines exhibit Ionic a minore, but are easily corrected? 7. What distinction is observed between victus est and victus fuit? 8. There are some remarkable instances of hiatus in Juvenal? Give as many of these as you can. A remarkable hiatus has been introduced by Lachmann in the 12th Satire ? 9. Discuss the quantity of the syllables in coturnices, dierectus, quotidianus, coxendicis, Batavus, Cyrenae, laserpicium, quoting passages. 10. Quote the lines from Persius and Juvenal where cerdo is used. II. Quote any legal metaphors from Ovid. 12. The praenomen of Catullus has been disputed. Discuss the reading of the passage in his poems which seems to make for Q. Catullus twice uses hic of contemporaries ? Catullus uses dico? Give the line. 13. Write a note on the use of ne with imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive. 14. Give the whole passage from Lucilius which contains the words Persium non curo legere, according to the best restoration. PHILOLOGY. MR. TYRRELL. 1. Analyze the following and refer them to their roots:—pûça, voμívn, ἀλήθεια, χρυσός, πτήσσω, ἴσσε, δηιόφεν, τράπεζα. 2. Quote Greek words which involve the root appearing in vappa, carina, squalor, cautus, caerimonia, caelum, quisquiliae, stultus, domicilium, supercilium. 3. How does Curtius explain the names Μεσσάπιοι, Αλικαρνασσός, Κανδαύλης, Μακεδόνες, Ζάκυνθος ? 4. Write a note on the etymology of φιδίτιον, of αἰγίλιψ, of ἀδελφός, and of γέφυρα ; and mention some cognates of γέφυρα. 5. Give the Greek cognates of choose, call, right, long, thumb. 6. What strong objection is there to explaining μépo as 'articulately speaking'? What is the proper meaning of payev, according to its etymology? What of aкμwv? In what English words is the root of akμv found? Why must not lingua be compared with Rt. Aix? 7. What peculiar linguistic feature appears in each of these words :ἔπτακον, ἀλδήσασκον, ζαμίαν, ἐσδέλλοντες, τωνί, δέατοι, φάνεσκε, ἑστήξῃ, ἔφρηκε? 8. Describe the method by which Curtius applies the hypothesis of development to the Greek verb. MR. PALMER. 1. What is the relation of accent to quantity in Latin? Give its history, and show how such an example as victrix = victorix may be explained. 2. Give the different explanations of such forms as reconciliassere and dicier. What is peculiar in such forms as messui, nexui ? 3. Give some examples from Latin of vowel assimilation caused by consonants. 4. What are the histories of the letters g and z in Latin ? f was not an aspirate: how is this shown? What changes does d undergo in Latin ? Does b interchange with v in Latin ? 5. The root of do was confounded with a similar root ? 6. What Latin words contain the same root as beer, thole, trot, warm, gray, yearn, yard; chez, jaune, brebis, courroie, souvent ? 7. What Greek words contain the same root as linter, obliquus, rigo, cella, ico, aestas, affatim, creper? 8. Mention some false etymologies which influenced the usage of Latin words. 1. Translate and comment on the following: (α) ἐν δὲ τοῖς κρατυντηρίοις καίπερ ὑπεσχημένος ταῖς αἰσθήσεσι τὸ κράτος τῆς πίστεως ἀναθεῖναι, οὐδὲν ἧττον εὑρίσκεται τούτων καταδικάζων· φησὶ γάρ· ἡμεῖς τῷ μὲν ἐόντι οὐδὲν ἀτρεκὲς συνίεμεν, μεταπῖπτον δὲ κατά τε σώματος διαθιγὴν καὶ τῶν ἐπεισιόντων καὶ τῶν ἀντιστηριζόντων. Γινώσκειν τε χρὴ ἄνθρωπον τῷδε τῷ κανόνι ὅτι ἐτεῆς ἀπήλλακται, ἀλλ ̓ ἐπιρρυσμίη ἑκάστοισιν ἡ δόξις. (5) καὶ γὰρ εἰ ἄλλο τὸ ἐν τούτοις νοεῖν, ἄλλο δὲ τὸ νοεῖν ὅ τι νοεῖ, ἀλλ ̓ οὖν μία προσβολὴ οὐκ ἀναίσθητος τῶν ἐνεργημάτων ἑαυτῆς. τὸν δὲ λόγον, ὅντιν' ἄν τις ἀπὸ τοῦ νοῦ ποιῇ, εἶτα ἀπὸ τούτου γίγνεσθαι ἐν ψυχῇ ἄλλον, ἀπ ̓ αὐτοῦ τοῦ λόγου, ἵνα μεταξὺ ψυχῆς καὶ νοῦ ᾖ οὗτος, ἀποστερήσει τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ νοεῖν. (ε) ίνδαλμα γὰρ φρονήσεως ἡ φύσις καὶ ψυχῆς ἔσχατον ὃν ἔσχατον καὶ τὸν ἐν αὐτῇ ἐλλαμπόμενον λόγον ἔχει. 2. Determine the quantity of aesthetical judgments, and distinguish them from kindred propositions. Illustrate from music and painting. Comment on the following: Die Belebung beider Vermögen (der Einbildungskraft und des Verstandes) zu unbestimmter, aber doch vermittelst des Anlasses der gegebenen Vorstellung einhelliger Thätigkeit, derjenigen nämlich, die zu einem Erkentniss überhaupt gehört, ist die Empfindung, deren allgemeine Mittheilbarkeit das Geschmacksurtheil postulirt. 3. Why did Kant give Epicurus so high a place in the history of philosophy ? What was Epicurus' analysis of error, and of opinion (δόξα) ? 4. Correct the following mistranslations : (a) Mathematics fulfil this requirement by the construction of a figure, which is a phenomenon evident to the senses. finds support and significance in number.' The same science (6) ‘We may at the same time term the nonsensuous cause of phenomena the transcendental object-but merely as a mental correlate to sensibility, considered as a receptivity.' (c) [Space and Time] are many representations contained in one, the consciousness of which is, so to speak, compounded. The unity of consciousness is nevertheless synthetical, and therefore primitive. From this peculiar character of consciousness follow many important consequences.' 5. What is Kant's refutation of Leibnitz' Theory of Space and Time? What strong statement affecting idealism does he make in the course of this argument? 6. Compare the views of Des Cartes, Locke, and Mill, as to the relation of induction and syllogism. What is the fundamental syllogism in Des Cartes' system? How does he explain and defend each premiss of it? 7. State where and how Kant refutes the various theories of idealism in conflict with his theory. What mistakes have been made in interpreting this part of the Critick? In what sense does he sanction the knowledge of the thing per se? 8. Give Lewes's general criticism of Kant's analysis of Experience. With what dilemma does he press Kant? 9. How does Berkeley answer the objections to his Theory from the universal dissent of mankind? How does he explain the existence of this dissent ? How does he classify Natural Suggestions? 10. What is Mr. Caird's general criticism of Kant's Schematism? How does he explain Kant's relation in this matter to Des Cartes and his successors? 11. What does Kant say of the position of Psychology as a science? What is the Hegelian view of the matter, and how may this view be supported from Kant's own admissions ? 12. How does Locke differ from Des Cartes on the nature of Mind? To what theologically unpopular conclusion did this view lead him? How did he illustrate the possibilities of the question against his assailants? 13. What account do M'Cosh and Mill give, respectively, of such judgments as 3 × 3 = 9? Criticise both accounts. Mill's can be refuted from his own argument in the context? 14. How does Kant justify his arrangement of the Paralogisms? 1. Plato lays down two general laws or types, in conformity with which all speaking about the gods in the róλis must be moulded ? How does he establish their necessity? In what terms does he state the close and intimate connexion of Art with Morality; and what rules does he, in consequence, lay down? |