5. Explain and, where possible, illustrate the construction of the following sentences:

(a)

Hyperboreae plaustrum glaciale sub Vrsae .

Si fortuna ferat, rerum nos summa sequetur
Imperiumque comes.

(b) Iure sed incerto mundi subsidere regnum
Chalcidos Euboicae vana spe rapte parabas.
Si iussa secutus
Me vehis Hesperiam, non ultra cuncta carinae
Debebis manibusque inopem duxisse senectam.

(c)

6. Discuss the reading of the following passage:
Occurrit gelidus boreas pelagusque retundit,
Et dubium pendet, vento cui concidat, aequor.

7. Explain briefly:

(a) Conditus Inarimes aeterna mole Typhoeus.
(b) Regnaque ad ultores iterum redeuntia Brutos.

GREEK.

PRELIMINARY HONOURS.

§1. Thucydides and Plutarch.

1. Translate, with short notes:

Thucydides, Book II, ch. 11, §§1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
ch. 84, §3.

2. Translate, with short notes:

2.

§2. Oedipus Tyrannus.

Translate 11. 4291444

11. 957-975.

Write notes on the characters of Oedipus, Jocasta and

Creon.

PRELIMINARY HONOURS.

GREEK.

§ 1. Sophocles and Euripides.

1. Translate, with short explanatory notes:
Oedipus Tyrannus, 429-446.

1071-1085.

2. What are the most striking merits of this play?

3.

Give some account of the growth of tragedy in Greece down to Sophocles.

4.

1.

Translate with short notes:

Bacchae, 197-209.

628-641.

§2. History and Antiquities.

What are the principal events of the Peloponnesian

War?

or

2.

Sketch the life and policy of Pericles.

Write short notes on Ephor, Helot, Dicasteries, The

Parthenon.