8. VARIATIONS IN CONSTRUCTION. 1. Mark off the following lines into feet, and the quantity of each and also write the English of the lines : syllable; A. Si tibi non est ces, es inops, et pinguia non es. B. Comas virgineas, hasta recurva, comas. C. Si vis esse comes mihi, mores indue comes. E. Fugere hi, fugere est melius, ne faste fugere. H. (1) Cernis triste malum, fractum jam turbine malum ? Illa sede sede nec side ubi sidere non est. K. Nil prosunt vires, ni probitate vires. 2. Put the following English into Latin verses : A. If you wish to cross the waves of the sea, make use of sails. B. The robber murders, but the balmy sun sets. C. Let the mark be known; the south is a wind; but a D. Strive, little boy, whoever you are that desire to shine. lishes a poem. F. This man trains whelps, that he may lead them out against wild boars. G. If you can avoid it, drink not very many cups. H. It is for our interest to know, what that good man is relating. 3. Translate the following Latin sentences:— A. Clava ferit, clavus firmat, clavisque recludit. C. Spondet vas (vădis) at vas (vāsis) continet escam. G. Consortes fortuna eadem : socios labor idem; sed caros faciunt schola, ludus, mensa sodales. H. Quod non est simulo, dissimuloque quod est. 4. Put the following English into Latin verses :— A. Old men are (so) by age; the ancients lived before us. B. You strike close at hand with a sword; you fall by a spear thrown from a distance. C. The prow is the front part of the ship, the stern the hind part, but the keel the lowest part. D. Merchandise is sold, and wages come being gained by labour. See Donaldson's Latin Grammar. 9. THE ROMAN POETS. 1. State reasons for dividing Latin poets into three classes-anteAugustan, Augustan, and post-Augustan. 2. Write a list of poets in each class— A. Ante-Augustan. B. Augustan. C. Post-Augustan. 3. Give some account of the life, character, and writings of the early Roman poets Ennius, Nævius, and Accius (or Attius), from the following quotations:— 66 Ennius, et sapiens et fortis, et alter Homerus Ut critici dicunt, leviter curare videtur, aufert Pacuvius docti famam senis. Accius alti." Hor. Ep. II. 1. 50. "Ennius arte carens, animosique Accius oris." Ovid. 4. Give some account of Cæcilius, Plautus, and Terentius, and their writings. 5. Describe the plot and give a general description of the following plays of Terence :— A. Andria. B. Heautontimorum enos. 6. Give a short account of the life and writings of Lucretius, and Catullus, and of Varro “Varronem primamque ratem quæ nesciat ætas Aureaque Esonio terga petita duci Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucretî 7. Between what two dates may be considered the Augustan age of Latin poetry? 8. Give some account of the birth, parentage, and early history of Horace, as related by himself. 9. Give some account, also, of Virgil; and the circumstances which led him to literary composition. 10. Name leading men at Rome, literary and otherwise, who patronized and befriended Horace and Virgil. 11. Give instances of the estimation in which these two poets were held by distinguished characters; with, if possible, quotations from their writings, in illustration. 12. Give some account of the works of Horace. 13. Explain Also, "Parios ego primus Iambos Ostendi Latio, numeros animosque secutus 66 age, dic Latinum Barbite carmen Lesbio primum modulate civi." 14. Name the three works of Virgil; with a short abstract of their contents. 15. Explain "Hos ego versiculos feci tulit alter honores. Sic vos non vobis, nidificatis aves, Sic vos non vobis, vellere fertis oves, Sic vos non vobis, fertis aratra boves." 16. Give some particulars of the life, exile, and death of Ovid. 17. Write a list of his works; and give some account of them. 18. Who were Gallus and Tibullus? from the following: "Donec erunt ignes arcusque Cupidinis arma Gallus et Hesperiis, et Gallus notus Eois Et sua cum Gallo nota Lycoris erit.” 19. Of the post-Augustan poets, give some account of the writings of the Satirists A. Juvenal. B. Persius. 20. Also of the writings of— A. Lucan. B. Silius Italicus. C. Martial. See "History of Roman Literature" in the "Encyclopædia Metropolitana.” 10. THE ROMAN PROSE WRITERS. 1. What is meant by the Golden and Silver Age of Latin composition? Name one or more writers in each. 2. Write a short life of Marcus Tullius Cicero A. His early life, studies, &c., up to his Consulship. 3. Write a list of his principal orations; if possible, in the order in which they were delivered. 4. Give, if possible, quotations from some of his speeches, in illustration of his style of eloquence. 5. Draw a comparison between Demosthenes and Cicero. 6. Write a list of the other works of Cicero 8. Name some of the most ancient Roman historians; and give som particulars of the works of Q. Fabius Pictor, and Marcus Porcius Cato. 9. Give some account of Sallust, and his two works, and the style in which they are composed. 10. What description of writings are those of Julius Cæsar? State in what respect they are, and in what they are not, to be relied upon as history. 11. Who is the great Roman historian of the Augustan age? What was the original size of his work, and how much of it remains? 12. Upon what grounds may he not be relied upon as a strict narrator of historical facts? Give instances from his writings. 13. Write a short abstract of the contents of his Twenty-first Book. 14. Who was Tacitus? Whom did he marry; and in whose reign did he flourish? 15. Name and describe the writings of Tacitus. 16. Give some account of the life and writings of the three biographers A. Cornelius Nepos. B. Suetonius. C. Plutarch. 17. Name any other Roman historians. 18. Give some account of the elder and younger Pliny, and their writings; with the date at which they flourished. 19. At what date did Quinctilian flourish; and what works did he write? See "History of Roman Literature" in the "Encyclopædia Metropolitana.” |