6. What influence did Mæcenas exercise on Augustus? 7. What were the military, financial, and political results of the seizure of Italy by Julius Cæsar? 8. Give an account of Cæsar's campaign in Spain against Afranius and Petreius. 9. What were the leading features of his administration ? 10. Give a sketch of the social condition of the Roman people in his time. II. What provinces did Cæsar find already existing, and what new ones did he create? 12. How did he reform the calendar? 13. How was the province of Narbo reorganized by Cæsar? 14. Compare Lucretius with Virgil, and point out the causes of the greater popularity of the latter. 15. At what point of civilization had the Greeks and Italians arrived, before they separated from each other? 16. What traces have we of the early intercourse between Rome and Sicily? 17. Analyze the forms, amor, amaris, aliter, dexterior, amamini. MR. GRAY. Translate the following passage into Greek Iambics : Arr. His name was, while he lived, above all envy : Sil. He had the fruits, Arruntius, More than the seeds: Sabinus and myself Had means to know him within; and can report him. He was a man most like to virtue; in all, And every action, nearer to the gods, And spite in others. Every virtue, Which, parted unto others, gave them name, Flow'd mix'd in him. He was the soul of goodness; And all our praises of him are like streams Drawn from a spring, that still rise full, and leave BEN JONSON. Translate the following passage into Greek Prose : STORY OF CANUTE.-I must not omit one remarkable action done by him, as Huntingdon reports it, with great scene of circumstance and emphatical expression, to show the small power of kings in respect of God, which, unless to court-parasites, needed no such laborious demonstration. He caused his royal seat to be set on the shore, while the tide was coming in; and with all the state that royalty could put into his countenance, said thus to the sea:-"Thou, sea, belongest to me, and the land whereon I sit is mine; nor hath any one unpunished resisted my commands: I charge thee come no further upon my land, neither presume to wet the feet of thy sovereign lord!" But the sea, as before, came rolling on, and without reverence, both wet and dashed him. Whereat the king, quickly rising, wished all about him to behold and consider the weak and frivolous power of a king, and that none deserved the name of king, but He whose eternal laws both heaven, earth, and sea obey. A truth, so evident of itself, as I said before, that unless to shame his court flatterers, who would not else be convinced, Canute needed not to have gone wetshod home. The best is, from that time forth he never would wear a crown, esteeming earthly royalty contemptible and vain.-MILTON. Translate the following passage into Latin Hexameters : Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, :- O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, BYRON. Translate the following passage into Latin Prose : Hannibal was not called to this consultation, because the king had harboured suspicions of him on account of his conferences with Villius, and had not since shown him any mark of regard. This affront, at first, he bore in silence; but afterwards thought it better to take some proper opportunity to inquire the reason of the king's suddenly withdrawing his favour, and to clear himself of blame. Without any preface he asked the cause of the king's displeasure; and on being told it said, "Antiochus, when I was yet an infant, my father Hamilcar, at a time when he was offering sacrifice, brought me up to the altars, and made me take an oath, that I never would be a friend to the Roman people. Under the obligation of this oath, I carried arms against them for thirty-six years; this oath, on peace being made, drove me out of my country, and brought me an exile to your court: and this oath shall guide me, should you disappoint my hopes, until I traverse every quarter of the globe, where I can understand that there is either strength or arms, to find out enemies to the Romans. If, therefore, your courtiers have conceived the idea of ingratiating themselves with you, by insinuating suspicions of me, let them seek some other means of advancing their own reputation, rather than the depressing of mine. I hate, and am hated by the Romans. That I speak the truth in this, my father Hamilear, and the gods are witnesses. Whenever, therefore, you shall employ your thoughts on a plan of waging war with Rome, consider Hannibal as one of your firmest friends. If circumstances force you to adopt peaceful measures, on such a subject employ some other counsellor." This discourse affected the king much, and even reconciled him to Hannibal. The resolution of the council, at their breaking up, was that the war should be undertaken.-BAKER'S LIVY. Logics. DR. LONGFIELD. 1. Why, according to Stewart, are metaphysical studies the best preparation for the philosophical pursuits which relate to the conduct of life? 2. Explain the difference between physical and metaphysical causes. With what object does Stewart draw attention to the distinction ? 3. "The circumstances which discriminate dreaming from our waking thoughts are such as must necessarily arise from the suspension of the will." What are the circumstances alluded to? 4. How does Stewart apply his theory as to the state of the mind in sleep to explain the inaccurate estimate of time which we form in dreams; and how does he illustrate his explanation? 5. How does Stewart differ from Burke as to the pleasure derived from poetry? 6. Point out some of the ways in which the power of the mind over its trains of thought is shown. What are the peculiar habits of association which wit, poetical fancy, and inventive genius respectively imply? 7. Explain the fact, that the conception of visible objects is easier than that of the objects of the other senses. What circumstance as to memory does this fact account for; and how does Stewart illustrate his explanation? 8. State, and illustrate by examples, the laws of our nature on which our capacity for moral improvement is founded. MR. BARLOW. 1. What, according to Whately, are the uses of the second and third figures? What does he mean by the enstatic figure? 2. State the “Achilles" sophism. Give (a) Whately's solution, (b) the correct solution. 3. Whately quotes a passage from Aristotle, in which the doctrine of the Realists is expressly contradicted? 4. How does Whately endeavour to defend his account of the inductive process against Mill's objections? 5. The author of the Letters of Junius (1) was acquainted with the technical forms of the Secretary of State's Office; (2) was intimately acquainted with the business of the War Office; (3) attended debates in the House of Lords during the year 1770, and took notes of the speeches; (4) bitterly resented the appointment of Mr. Chamier to the place of Deputy Secretary-at-War; (5) was bound by some strong tie to the first Lord Holland. These five marks are all found in Philip Francis. Estimate the probability that he was the author of these Letters, assuming that the chance from each mark taken separately is one-fifth. 6. Resolve a Sorites into a series of syllogisms in the first figure. 7. Show that the mode OIO cannot be verified by reduction ad impossibile. 8. The letter p has different significations in the words Darapti and Bramantip? What is the cause of this? MR. MAHAFFY. 1. What objection did Bishop Stillingfleet make to the theory that all ideas come by sensation and reflection? What was Locke's answer? 2. Give the substance of Locke's chapter on Infinity. 3. How does he distinguish the Will and the Understanding? What is the relation between the latter and Perception? He objects to the use of certain terms in relation to them; why? 4. What are the conditions of Relation? What are the three most important instances of it which he discusses? 5. Describe the Idola Tribus, giving Bacon's three examples of it. Which class of Idola differs from the rest, and why? 6. Explain (in your own language) why deductive Reasoning could not be applied in Bacon's time to physical discoveries. 7. Give Locke's remarks upon the word Essence. 8. "The names of simple ideas, mixed modes, and simple substances have each of them something peculiar." Give the arguments and examples of Locke on this subject. JUNIOR FRESHMEN. Mathematics. A. MR. W. ROBERTS. 1. Being given the base of a triangle, find the locus of the vertex when the tangent of the vertical angle is in a given ratio to the tangent of one of the angles at the base. 2. Being given the base of a triangle, and the length of the line joining the feet of perpendiculars dropped from the extremities of the base on the sides, find the locus of the vertex. 3. Let A, B, C be the vertices of a triangle, and I the centre of the inscribed circle; it is required to prove that AC. BC-IC2 = CA. BA-IA2 = AB. CB – IB2. 4. Being given a triangle ABC, let a line be drawn through C meeting AB in F; show that the maximum value of is the side AB. AC sin BCF+ BC sin ACF 5. Reduce to its simplest form the expression 4 sin 60+ 4 cos 60+ 3 sin 220. 6. Find the surd expressions for the sine and cosine of 15°. DR. SHAW. 7. If two chords of a circle aa' and bb' intersect each other (at x), so that the two segments of each chord subtend equal angles at the middle point of the other chord, i. e. so that show that an + an = anxa'nx and bmx = b'mx, bm + b'm. 8. If the diameter AB of a circle be divided into n equal parts in the points P1, P2, &c., and upon the parts AP1, AP2, &c., semicircles be described lying all on one side of the diameter; and also upon BPm-1, BPm-2, &c., semicircles be described lying on the other side of the diameter; show that the perimeter of any figure APm-1 BPmA is equal to the circumference of the circle, and the area of this figure is area of the circle. I nth of the 9. Given two pairs of points, P and Q, P' and Q', on the same right line, to determine the position and magnitude of the circle coaxal with both. |