2. Beginning, ἴϋγξ, ἕλκε τὺ τῆνον ἐμὸν ποτὶ δῶμα τὸν ἄνδρα, κ. τ. λ. Ending, καὶ λέγ' ἐπιφθύζοισα· τα Δέλφιδος οστία μάσσω. ii. 32-62.

3. Bey imming, ὡργεῖος, κἠγών, καὶ ὁ Θεσσαλὸς ἱπποδιώκτας, κ. τ. λ. Ending, - αρθένος ἑξαέτις κόλπω επιθυμήσασα. xiv. 12-32.

4. Beginning, βάλλει τοι, Πολύφαμε, τὸ ποίμνιον & Γαλάτεια, κ. τ. λ. Ending, πολλάκις, ὦ Πολύφαμε, τὰ μὴ καλὰ καλὰ πέφανται.

vi. 6-19.

Write notes on the following subjects:—

1. The criteria which are to guide us in determining the authenticity of the poems of Theocritus.

2. The origin and progress of Bucolic poetry, and the position held by Theocritus in its development.

3. The dialect of Theocritus.

4. A brief account of the poetical school of Alexandria, and of the effect of the patronage of Greek literature by the Ptolemies.

5. On the special causes which led to the popularity of the Bucolic poetry at Alexandria.

6. Point out the pieces of Theocritus which you select as the chief in merit, and give critical reasons for your opinion.

Translate the following passage into Greek Verse:

Beginning, Me. Cur non, Mopse, boni quoniam convenimus ambo,.
Ending, Et foliis lentas intexere mollibus hastas.

VIRG., Ecl. v. 1-31.

Translate the following passage into Greek Heroic Verse:

The fury heard, while on Cocytus' brink,

Her snakes untied, sulphureous waters drink;
But at the summons roll'd her eyes around,

And snatch'd the starting serpents from the ground.
Not half so swiftly shoots along the air

The gliding lightning, or descending star.

Through crowds of airy shades she wing'd her flight,
And dark dominions of the silent night;

Swift as she pass'd the flitting ghosts withdrew,
And the pale spectres trembled at her view:
To the iron gates of Tænarus she flies,
There spreads her dusky pinions to the skies.
The day beheld, and sickening at the sight,
Veil'd her fair glories in the shades of night.

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Affrighted Atlas, on the distant shore,

Trembled, and shook the heavens and gods he bore.
Now from beneath Malea's airy height

Aloft she sprung, and steer'd to Thebes her flight;
With eager speed the well-known journey took,
Nor here regrets the hell she late forsook.
A hundred snakes her gloomy visage shade,
A hundred serpents guard her horrid head,
In her sunk eyeballs dreadful meteors glow:
Such rays from Phoebe's bloody circle flow,

When, labouring with strong charms, she shoots from high
A fiery gleam, and reddens all the sky.

Blood stain'd her cheeks, and from her mouth there came
Blue steaming poisons, and a length of flame;

From every blast of her contagious breath

Famine and drought proceed, and plagues, and death.

A robe obscene was o'er her shoulders thrown,

A dress by fates and furies worn alone.

She toss'd her meagre arms; her better hand
In waving circles whirl'd a funeral brand:
A serpent from her left was seen to rear
His flaming crest, and lash the yielding air.

POPE.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREES IN MEDICINE.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.

PROFESSOR M'DOWEL.

1. Describe the arrangement of the pia mater in the interior of the brain.

2. Describe the pia mater of the spinal cord, and contrast it with that covering the brain.

3. Enumerate the principal ganglionic centres of the encephalon.

4. Describe the interior of the right auricle of the heart, and the relative position of the different objects seen on opening it.

5. Describe the coats of the stomach.

6. The chemical phenomena of respiration.

7. The composition of the pancreatic fluid, and the views held as to its influence in digestion.

8. Enumerate the muscles which connect the scapula to the trunk. 9. The relative anatomy of the brachial artery.

10. Give the bony boundaries of the orbit.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

DR. BANKS.

1. What are the diseases in the course of which pericarditis most frequently occurs?

2. Give the characters which distinguish exocardial from endocardial sounds.

3. What are the rules which should guide us in the treatment of cardiac inflammations ?

4. What is the state of the lung which is sometimes found in fatal bronchitis, which has been mistaken for lobular pneumonia?

5. When this condition of lung exists, how does it influence other parts of the lungs ?

6. How does the urine in pneumonia differ from the urine in health? 7. What relation is there between the amount of urea in the urine of pneumonia and the temperature of the body?

8. At what age does the mortality of phthisis reach its maximum ? 9. What are the symptoms of strumous dyspepsia ?

10. How would you treat phthisis in its earliest stage?

CHEMISTRY.

DR. APJOHN.

1. If a person standing on an insulating stool in the vicinity of the positive conductor of an electric machine in action be touched for an instant by one standing on the ground, what, after such contact, will be the electric condition of the former?

2. Explain any method with which you are acquainted for determining the hygrometric condition of the atmosphere.

3. What are the experiments which would enable you to assign the amount of the following matters in a specimen of urine, viz. :-Mucus, lithic, phosphoric, and sulphuric acids, chlorine, and urea?

4. How is the "acidum phosphoricum dilutum" of the British Pharmacopoeia made; and what amount of absolute phosphoric acid exists in six drachms of the dilute acid? State also how you would test it for metaphosphoric, and for nitric acid.

5. What is the formula of Rochelle salt; how is it made; and what is the nature of the precipitate which forms when a solution of it is acidulated with muriatic acid ?

6. What is the chemical constitution of "acidum sulphuricum aromaticum"; and why is its saturating power less than that of the sulphuric acid employed in the preparation of it?

7. Write the formula of nitrite of soda; explain the method of making it, and how it may be distinguished from nitrate of soda. Specify also the reaction which takes place upon boiling a mixed solution of nitrite of soda and sal-ammoniac.

8. How from silver coin may fine silver be prepared? Explain also how the latter is converted into nitrate, and how from this salt oxide of silver may be separated.

9. Give the processes for preparing "liquor antimonii terchloridi ;" for converting this into pure oxide of antimony, and the latter into tartar emetic.

10. What is the process for making "liquor ammoniæ fortior ;" and how would you test it for carbonic acid, and for chlorine ?

MATERIA MEDICA.

DR. AQUILLA SMITH.

1. Name at least three of the tinctures in the Pharmacopoeia which become turbid when mixed with water.

2. By what character is "Oleum Anisi" distinguished from the other essential oils in the Pharmacopoeia?

3. How is "Liquor Soda Arseniatis" prepared?

4. Describe the mode of growth of "Colchicum autumnale," and name the preparations of Colchicum in the Pharmacopoeia.

5. What is the most important difference in the composition of "Extractum Colocynthidis compositum" and "Pilula Colocynthidis composita"?

6. How is prepared gelatine to be distinguished from isinglass?

7. What is Kamela?

Give its characters, therapeutic action, dose,

and mode of administration?

8. Give the process for preparing "Acidum Citricum" from lemonjuice.

9. Give the formula for "Confectio Terebinthinæ," and explain the principle on which it is constructed.

10. Prescribe an eight-ounce mixture for a simple diarrhoea; the prescription not to contain chalk or opium, and to be written without any abbreviation.

BOTANY.

DR. HARVEY.

1. State the origin, structure, and mode of development of the root in Exogens.

2. What happens in autumn to plants with definite and indefinite branches, respectively?

3. In what parts of an Exogen should you expect to find the most highly organized sap?

4. Distinguish between a pinnately-trifoliolate and a digitately-trifoliolate leaf.

5. How are Ranunculacea and Rosacea distinguishable by a floral character?

6. Explain the inflorescence of a Daisy.

7. State the characters peculiar to the anthers and to the ovary in l'iolaceæ.

8. Distinguish Melanthacea from Liliacea.

9. Name and describe in correct botanical terms the plant marked No. 1,-giving the several characters of its stem; leaves, their arrangement, stipulation, composition, form, cutting of margin, surface (whether glabrous, hairy, scabrous, tomentose, &c.), venation; inflorescence; bractea; flower, its calyx, corolla, insertion of stamens; ovary, style, stigma.

10. Name, and describe similarly, No. 2.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREES IN SURGERY.

DR. ADAMS.

1. What operation would you resort to, to remedy the evils attending on a phimosis?

2. Give your opinion of the relative merits of the two operations which have been recommended in such a case, viz., that by simple incision, and that by circumcision.

3. Suppose you were about to subject a patient labouring under a recent syphilitic affection to a course of mercury, what examination should you make of your patient before he commences the use of mercury?

4. What is the nature of the cutaneous eruption called "erythema mercuriale” ?—and give the names of the writers who signalised this effect of mercury.

5. The symptoms and synonyms of erythema mercuriale?

6. The circumstances under which you have seen acute inflammation of the tongue occur?

7. What symptoms of glossitis would you consider dangerous demanding active surgical interference ?

8. Suppose a case of fracture of the fibula near the ankle, with the displacement forwards of the tibia on the instep, what are the characteristic appearances presented?

9. If several days have passed since the accident, and inflammation of the several tissues implicated has set in, which would you consider the more prudent course,-to wait with a view to use means to lessen the inflammatory action, or to proceed at once to reduce the bones?

10. The mode of removing the deformity, and the proper appliances to be used to keep the bones in their place?