effect had the intercourse with this illustrious character upon his young mind?

9. Give a slight sketch of the active life of Thucydides; his military command, and exile; with his death.

10. What great work did he write? Give some account of the style of his composition in comparison with Herodotus.

11. Name some of the most distinguished of the pupils of Socrates. 12. Give some account of one of them who went with Cyrus against his brother, the king of Persia; of his talent and skill in the perilous retreat; and his conduct and character.

13. Name the events in the after life of this illustrious man: his exile; his sons; his death.

14. Give an account of the contents of the "Anabasis."

15. Name other works by this author, and give an account of the most important of them.

16. Name the leading Grecian orators, with the years in which they flourished.

17. Write a short life of Pericles: his commanding influence over his countrymen; his character in public and private life; and his death. 18. Give also a short account of Lysias, Isocrates, Eschines. 19. Give some especial account of Demosthenes: the age of his country in which he flourished; his early life and training for an orator his wonderful eloquence; also his end.

20. Name the most important of his orations; and give a description of the contents of—

A. "Philippics.”

B. "Eschines contra Ctesiphontem," and "Demosthenes

de Coronâ:"

21. Give some particulars of the life of Plato, and an account of his writings.

22. Give some account of the writings of Aristotle.

23. Name also a Greek historian, who wrote in Greek a portion of the history of Rome; with some account of his life and writings; giving also the date, and naming a distinguished Roman with whom he was intimate.

24. Give some particulars of the life and writings of Arrian; and of Dion Cassius.

See "History of Greek Literature," in the "Encyclopædia Metropolitana."

SECTION IV.-LATIN,

1. LATIN ACCIDENCE.-ELEMENTARY.

1. Write down the Latin alphabet; name the mutes, the double letters, the diphthongs.

2. What is meant by noun? How many kinds of nouns are there? What are the numbers, cases, and genders of nouns; and what difference is there in the significations of the word gender in Latin and English?

3. How many declensions of substantives are there? How are they distinguished? Write down the endings of the genitive singular in each declension; the accusative singular, the accusative plural, the dative singular, the genitive plural.

4. In what declension are there no neuter nouns? What is peculiar in the declension of neuter nouns?

5. State accurately the rule for the termination -um or -ium in the genitive plural of the third declension,

8. Show the method of comparing adjectives; and compare

10. How many conjugations of verbs are there? Write down the infinitive endings, active and passive, of each conjugation.

11. What are the three roots of a verb from which all the verb may be conjugated? How do you form the perfect and supine root from the present in the first, the second, and the fourth conjugations? Also, mention a common way of forming the perfect root in the third conjugation.

12. Write these three roots, and the present infinitive of—

A. Laudo, moneo, audio.

B. Also write the four participles of these verbs.

C. Write the four participles of-Do, mordeo, vincio.

13. Write the present, perfect, supine, and infinitive of the following verbs :

A. Domo, maneo, scribo, tango.

B. Tego, fingo, figo.

C. Paro, pareo, pario.

D. Vinco, vincio, venio, vivo.

14. Name some of the irregular verbs, and explain the derivation of— A. Possum, volo, malo.

B. Write also the present indicative and the infinitive of

these words.

15. Write the imperative of―

A. Sum and eo.

B. Prosum, prætereo.

C. Nolo, edo, fero, fio.

16. Write a list of the prepositions which govern→→→

A. The accusative.

B. The ablative.

C. Both these cases.

17. Show how some prepositions may govern two cases, and distinguish between "abdere se in silvis," and "abdere se in silvas."

2. LATIN ACCIDENCE.-MORE ADVANCED.

1. What are monoptots, diptots? give instances.

2. Decline

A. Jusjurandum, respublica.

B. Bos, domus, Jupiter,

Also

C. Mea mater, illa vis, hic vir.

D. Quicunque nauta, altera navis,

3. What nouns of the fourth declension make ubus? and when is the first declension abus? Write the plural of locus and of cœlum, and distinguish loci and loca.

4. Form a table of genders of nouns in the first, second, fourth, and fifth declensions, naming the common exceptions.

5. In the third declension write down the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter endings; and name the notable exceptions.

6. What are the genders of the following nouns :-cornu, gradus, pars, fulgur, vox, arundo, leo, miles, nauta, domus, lac?

7. What is the Latin for nine and nineteen ? ninth and nineteenth? nine a-piece, and nineteen a-piece? nine times, and nineteen times ? 8. Distinguish numerals in ginta, and in genti.

9. Write the full nominative of acer; compare atrox, and also atrociter. What is the positive degree of summus and of imus? 10. Distinguish

A. Hic, iste, ille.

Also accurately—

B. Quisque, quisquis, aliquis, quispiam.
And also-

C. Quivis, quidam, quincunque, quilibet.
D. Quivis, quisquam, ullus, aliquis, quidam.

11. What words answer to—

A. Qualis, quantus, quot?

And to

B. Ubi, illic, istic?

Distinguish also

C. Hic, huc, hinc, hâc.

12. What are impersonal verbs? What are deponent verbs?

A. Explain transitive as applied to verbs—

B. What is the exact meaning of verbs in -esco and in -ibo?

and what do you call such verbs?

13. Write the three tenses of the infinitive mood active and passive of—

A. Laudo.

B. Mordeo.

C. Scribo.

D. Haurio.

14. What is the imperfect tense of prosum, and what word do re and eo form? Write the imperative of→

A. Adsum, comedo, memini.

15. Write down the present, the perfect, and supine (if found), and the infinitive of the following verbs :

16. Also of

A. Do, juro, jubeo, arceo.

B. Tondeo, video, rumpo, peto.
C. Cado, sumo, sperno, uro.

D. Quæro, nosco, aperio, sentio.

A. Concupisco, concipio, adspicio, perlego.

B. Intelligo, cogo, occido, occido.

C. Desino.

D. Prætero, elicio.

E. Audeo, gaudeo, sequor, labor.

17. Explain laudatum iri; what is the passive of facio and conficio? 18. Name the imperative of-duco, dico, facio, fero.

3. ETYMOLOGY.

1. What do the prefixes ab- and ad- become with fero? Write the perfect, supine, and infinitive of these two compound verbs.

2. Show how these two prefixes are modified

A. Before n, s, t, p, r; giving an instance of each.

B. Modify also sub- before ƒ, p, r, giving instances.
C. Instance also modifications of cum.

3. Explain and give the exact meanings of the following words :A. Agricola, quamvis, quilibet.

B. Negotium, tectum, hodie.

C. Nonnunquam, exercitus, provincia.

D. Constat, quomodo, præsidium, magnopere.

4. Explain and distinguish, giving the exact meanings of— A. Magister, dominus, nerus, præceptor.

B. Terra, tellus, solum.

C. Mare, pontus, pelagus, æquor, marmor, vadum, fretum.
D. Consors, comes, socius, sodalis.

E. Peto, rogo, flagito, posco, postulo.

F. Quotidie, indies.