GREEK.-PART I. (COMPOSITION.) Professor Tucker and Mr. Tubbs. The truth is, judges, that as I sat here while he accused me, and as I looked at him, I fancied myself nothing else than a prisoner at the bar of the Thirty. Suppose that I had been brought to trial in their time, who, think you, would have been my accuser? You must know as well as I, judges, that this fellow was constantly on the look-out for an opportunity to accuse me, and would certainly have invented one had I not bought him off with a large sum. You can easily imagine the manner in which he would have examined me. "Tell me, Andokides, did you go to Dekeleia, and strengthen the hostile garrison on your country's soil ?" "Not I." "What, then? You ravaged the territory, and plundered your fellow-citizens ?" "I have done none of these things." "None? And you think that because you did not chance to commit one of these crimes you are to escape with impunity the death which many others have suffered ?" LATIN.-PART I. (COMPOSITION.) When Xerxes heard this he replied with a laugh, "What talk is this, Demaretus, about a thousand men fighting all this army of mine? Come, now, you say that you yourself were once Are you, king of these same Lacedæmonians. then, willing to fight ten of my men at this moment? And yet, if all your citizens are such as you describe them to be, you, being their king, ought to be able to stand up against twice as many. I expect you therefore to be a match for twenty Persians, if you want to justify the statement you have made. For my part I believe that a merely equal number of Persians will offer a sufficiently difficult task for as many Greeks." Demaretus replied, "I knew very well, O King, that I should not please you by speaking the truth. I spoke it under compulsion. May things turn out as you wish." GREEK.-PART II. (COMPOSITION.) Therefore when I reflect on the wise and good constitution of this people among whom all things are so well governed and with so few laws: where virtue hath its due reward, and yet there is such an equality that every man lives in plenty : when I compare with them so many other nations that are still making new laws, and yet can never bring their constitution to a right regulation, where, notwithstanding every one has his property, yet all the laws that they can invent have not the power either to obtain or preserve it, or even to enable men certainly to distinguish what is their own from what is another's; of which the many lawsuits that every day break out give too plain a demonstration: when, I say, I balance all these things in my thoughts, I grow more favourable to Plato. I do not wonder that he resolved not to make any laws for such as would not submit to a community of all things. For so wise a man could not but foresee that the setting all upon a level was the only way to make a nation happy, which cannot be obtained so long as there is property. LATIN.-PART II. (COMPOSITION.) How slight that excitement is, even when it reaches its greatest height, and how little the Government has to fear from it, no person whose observation has been confined to European societies will readily believe. In this country the number of English residents is very small, and of that small number a great proportion are engaged in the service of the State, and are most deeply interested in the maintenance of existing institutions. Even those English settlers who are not in the service of the Government have a strong interest in its stability. They are few: they are thinly scattered among a vast population, with whom they have neither language, nor religion, nor morals, nor manners, nor colour in common: they feel that any convulsion which should overthrow the existing order of things would be ruinous to themselves. Particular acts of government are often angrily condemned by these persons. But every indigoplanter in Tirhoot, and every shopkeeper in Calcutta, is perfectly aware that the downfall of the Government would be attended with the destruction of his fortune, and with imminent hazard to his life. COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. Professor Tucker. A. To be omitted by candidates of Third Year in 1. State how far classification of the languages of the world has yet proceeded. Give in a tabular form the divisions and subdivisions of both the Semitic and the Indo-European family. Add to the several subdivisions the earliest dates from which we are acquainted with them. 2. (a) Make clear the process by which the genealogical affinity of languages to each other is determined. (b) Also make clear the process of disintegration of a homogeneous speech into distinct languages. 3. How do you arrive at the original I.-E. alphabet ? Apply your reasoning to the determination of (a) the original vowels, (b) the original gutturals, (c) the original nasals and liquids. Argue the question of the existence of v, j, kh, sonant z. B. For all candidates. 4. Give the correct statement of Grimm's Law and its qualifications. Illustrate it fully through out. 5. Explain and illustrate the operations of Sandhi, Ablaut, Compensatory Lengthening, Anaptyxis. 6. Detail the history in Greek of original q, k, s, ei; and in Latin of q, velar gh, a, eu. Give examples in all instances, with the cognates proving your derivations. 7. Explain fully the etymology of the following words, accounting for every change from the original form, and quoting cognate words from the same or other languages :-ἄζομαι, ἅμα, ἄττα, βάσις, γέγαμεν, έρεθρον (= βάραθρον), εἷμα, Ζῆνα, μείζων, νίφα, ὅς, ὅμμα, πρόφρασσα, arduus, bellus, coquo, lingua, facio, nix, sobrinus, stratus. 8. Discuss the origins of the spiritus asper in Greek. |