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(b.) Age nunc ad externa redeamus. Matrem Phalaridis scribit Ponticus Heraclides, doctus vir, auditor et discipulus Platonis, visam esse videre in somnis simulacra deorum, quae ipsa domi consecravisset: ex his Mercurium c patera, guam dextra manu teneret, sanguinem visum esse fundere gui quum terrain attigisset refervescere videretur sic, ut tota domus sanguine redundaret. Quod matris somnium immanis filii crudelitas comprobavit.—Cicero, de Div. I. xxiii. 46. (c.) Postea Piso in Citeriorem Hispaniam quaestor pro praetore missus est, adnitente Crasso, quod cum infestum inimicum Cn. Pompeio cognoverat. Neque tamen Senatus provinciam invitus dederat: quippe foedum hominem a republica procul esse volebat: simul quia boni complures praesidium in co putabant et jam turn potentia Cn. Pompeii formidolosa erat. Sed is Piso in provincia ab equitibus Hispanis, quos in exercitu ductabat, iter faciens occisus est. Sunt gui ita dicant, imperia ejus injusta, superba, crudelia, barbaros nequivisse pati: alii autem, equites illos, Cn. Pompeii veteres fldosque clientes, voluntate ejus Pisonem adgressos : nunquam Hispanos praeterea tale facinus fecisse, sed imperia saeva mul.ta antea perpessos. Nos earn rem in medio relinquemus. —Sallust, Catil. xix. 2. Translate into English prose : — (a.) Errans in silva spinam calcavit Leo ; mox ad Pastorem cauda venit blandiens. " Ne perturberis, imploro supplex opem, non praedam quaero." Ponit in gremio pedem homo sublatum, et eximens spinam gravi levat dolore. Eedit hinc in silvas Leo. Falso post tempus accusatus crimine Pastor damnatur, atque ludis proximis ieiunis proiici iubetur bestiis. Emissae dum discursitant passim ferae, agnovit hominem gui medicinam fecerat Leo, et sublatum rursus in gremio pedem Pastori ponit. Rex ut cognovit, statim silvis Leonem, et Pastorem reddit suis. —Phaedrus, Appendix, 15. Ad Chloen. (b.) Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Ghloe, Quaerenti pavidam montibus aviis Matrem non sine vano Aurarum et siluae metu. Nam seu mobilibus veris inhorruit Adventus foliis, seu virides rubum Dimovere lacertae, Et corde et genibus tremit. Atqui non ego te tigris ut aspera Gaetulusve leo frangere persequor: Tandem desine matrem Tempestiva sequi viro. —Horace, Carm. I. xxiii. 3. Translate into Latin :— (a.) The master commanded his slave to kill him. (b.) He returned to Italy and came to Borne with Caesar on the first of March. (c.) He sent messengers to the captives to announce to them that he was coming to kill them. (d.) Someone has said that he was unable to praise any one whose character had not been tested by adversity. (c.) So great an army did Spartacus raise that he was able for two years to resist the armies sent against him by the Senate. (/.) The general remained at Athens for the winter, not because he feared that he would be defeated, but because the roads were in bad repair, and because he wished to spare his men. 4. Parse the words underlined in the passages from Cicero and Sallust. 5. Decline the words underlined in the passage from Horace. 6. Write down the principal parts of the verbs used in the last six lines of the passage from Phaedrus. 7. " Sunt gui ita dicant." When is gui followed by the subjunctive ? Illustrate your answer by Latin sentences. 8. Give Latin sentences illustrating the expression of ideas expressed in English with the aid of the prepositions to, by, with, in, into, at, and from.

French. — For Class D, and for Civil Service Senior and Junior. Time allowed : 3 hours. [Note. —Candidates are advised to attempt all the questions. Great importance is attached to translation from and especially into French.] I. Translate into good English,— A la mort dv prince consort, la reine Victoria, frappee au cceur par la perte de son epoux, s'est refugiee dans sa douleur. Par la suite, on ne la vue qu'en de rares circonstances quitter la retraite severe ou elle s'etait confinee. De la, pour le prince de Galles,

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