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PRELIMINARY HONOURS.

GREEK.

1.

Translate: Xenophon, Anabasis, III, ch. 4, §§1, 2, 3, 4.

2. Make into Greek:

It is true, my lords, that I have, perhaps more than any other man in this country, struggled to maintain a state of peace. I have done So, because I thought it a duty to the people of this country, a duty to God and man, first to exhaust every possible measure to obtain peace before we engaged in war. I may own, though I trust my conscience acquits me of not having done the utmost, that I only regret not having done enough, or lest I may have lost some possible means of averting what I consider the greatest calamity that can befall a country. It has been said that my desire for peace unfits me to make war; but how and why do I wish to make war? I wish to make war in order to obtain peace, and no weapon that can be used in war can make the attainment of peace so sure and speedy, as to make that war with the utmost vigour and determination.

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Agamemnon, 810-828.

Oedipus Coloneus, 1181-1203.
Medea, 324-339.

4. Translate, with short explanatory notes:
Frogs, 302-315.

706-720.

1142-1150.

5. Translate:

Theocritus, Idyll, XV, 100-122.

FINAL HONOURS.

GREEK.

1. Translate: Phædo, 63 A, B, C.

2. Make into Greek:

The ambassador being present in the council when these matters were being discussed, told them that he thought it of far greater moment for them to consider what they were to do than what they were to say; for when their resolves were formed it would be easy to clothe them in fit words.' Now this was sound advice, and such as every prince and people should lay to heart. But not less mischievous than doubtful resolves are those which are late and tardy, especially when they have to be made on behalf of a friend. For from their lateness they help none, and hurt ourselves. Tardy resolves are due to want of spirit, or to the perversity of those who have to determine, who being moved by a secret desire to overthrow the government, or to carry out some selfish purpose of their own, no decision to be come to, but only thwart and hinder. Whereas, good citizens, even when they see the popular mind to be bent on dangerous courses, will never oppose the adoption of a fixed

suffer

plan, more

particularly in matters which do not brook delay.

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