OXFORD EXAMINATION PAPERS. RESPONSIONS. I. Latin Prose. If it is the part of a good general, not only to make a proper use of the present, but also to form the best judgement of things to come, it must be allowed that Pericles both foresaw and foretold what success the Athenians would have in the war; namely, that they would ruin themselves by grasping too much. But it was entirely against the advice of Fabius, that the Romans sent Scipio into Africa, and yet they were victorious there; not by the favour of fortune, but by the courage and conduct of their general. So that the misfortunes of his country bore witness to the sagacity of Pericles; while from the glorious success of the Romans, it appeared that Fabius was utterly mistaken. And, indeed, it is an equal fault in a commander, to lose an advantage through diffidence, as to fall into danger from want of foresight. II. Grammar Paper. 1. Parse—προὐτρέψω, ὄλοιο, ἐξῆν, εἰδείη, ὤτοιν, ἀφεθῆναι, γενοῦ, ἔλῃς, ἀναῤῥήξει, πρέσβεις, fugent, sospitem, sublato, enixus, emisti. 2. Decline in full—κύων, δόξα, πόλις, βοῦς, ἀνήρ, domus, nix, vetus, tres, hic. 3. Give the first person singular of the future, perfect, and first or second aorist active of κατέχω, τέμνω, ἐλαύνω, ἄγω, μανθάνω, στέλλω, and the nominative singular of the perfect participle passive of ἀνίημι, ῥίπτω, δοκέω, γιγνώσκω, ἀποστερέω. 4. Give the perfect, supine, and present infinitive of verto, lacesso, cubo, haurio, labor, and the first person singular of the present and imperfect subjunctive of fero, audio, fio, obsto. 5. Give the genitive and accusative singular and plural οἱ ὅστις, ὑγιής, γόνυ, μέγας, δεδορκώς, locuples, mulier, quivis, anceps, mare. 6. Distinguish between οὗτος, αὐτὸς, αὑτος—πόσος, ποῖος, пóτερоs—ñой, поî, пóbeν-is, ille, iste-alius, alter, ceteri -quisque, quisquis, quisquam. 7. Explain attraction, protasis, final clause, oratio obliqua, frequentative verb, reflexive pronoun, gerund, gerundive, locative case, ordinal numbers. 8. What cases are constructed with the following words, χρῆσθαι, αἰσθάνεσθαι, κρατεῖν, ἀντί, noceo, fruor, obeo, memini, tenus, instar? What is the meaning of the prepositions in λόγος κατὰ Δημοσθένους, μεταπέμπομαι τὸν παΐδα ? 9. Write out in full: Present optative active of δράω. Pluperfect indicative active of δίδωμι. Perfect subjunctive of cresco. Future indicative passive of juvo. 10. Explain the difference between :- scio quod scis-scio quid scias. si roges respondeam—si rogares responderem. What is the difference in Greek between the aorist and the perfect? 11. Translate into Latin : (1) He sent ambassadors to sue for peace. (2) There is no reason why we should fear him. (3) The consul was persuaded to withdraw his forces without attacking the enemy. (4) He promised to tell me what he felt about the death of Cæsar. (5) I do not doubt that you will soon. find what you are looking for. III. Arithmetic. 1 Find by Practice the cost of 5 acres 3 roods 18 poles of land at 1257. per acre. 3. Divide 15351 by 3.57, and verify the result by Multiplication. 4. Find the number of hours, minutes, and seconds in 043125 of a week; and express 78. 6d. as the decimal of 4l. 4 65 5. Reduce to a decimal fraction; and express ∙10538461 as a vulgar fraction in its lowest terms. 6. A bankrupt's debts are 3840l. and his net assets 8287.; what dividend in the pound will the creditors receive? 7. If three horses eat a bushel of oats in 12 days, how many bushels would 240 horses eat in 21 days? 8. Find the cost of colouring the walls of a room 12 feet high, 25 feet 9 inches long, and 14 feet 3 inches broad, at 1d. per square foot. 9. The water in a tank 7 yards long by 3 yards wide is 10 feet deep; find the number of cubic yards of water in the tank. Find also the weight of the water, knowing that a cubic foot of water weighs 1000 oz. avoirdupois. 10. Obtain the square roots of 137641, 61, and 0169. 11. What is the present worth of 2160l. due two years hence, at 4 per cent. simple interest? and what is the amount of 4000l. for 3 years at 5 per cent. compound interest? 12. Determine the annual income arising from the investment of 1900l. in the Five per Cents. at 95. If the stock be sold when the price has fallen to 81, and the proceeds reinvested in the Six per Cents. at 108, what will then be the annual income? IV. [N. B. Two Propositions at least from the Second Book are required.] 1. Define a superficies, a segment of a circle, an oblong, a parallelogram, a gnomon, parallel straight lines; and explain the terms-postulate, theorem, axiom, pro blem. 2. If a straight line falling on two other straight lines, make the alternate angles equal to one another, the two straight lines shall be parallel to one another. 3. If a straight line be bisected, and produced to any point, the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced, and the part of it produced, together with the square on half the line bisected, is equal to the square on the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced. 4. If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, but the angle contained by the two sides of one of them greater than the angle contained by the two sides equal to them, of the other, the base of that which has the greater angle shall be greater than the base of the other. 5. If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle be equal to the squares described on the other two sides of it, the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle. |