OXFORD EXAMINATION PAPERS, RESPONSIONS. I. For Latin Prose. While the King lay in his blood, a noise and tumult arose in the town, and Tanaquil ordered the gates of the royal house to be shut, to keep out the people. And she spoke to them out of an upper window, and said that the king was not dead, but only wounded, and had ordered that Servius should reign in his stead until he had recovered. Therefore Servius filled the king's place, and sat as judge on the royal throne, conducting all affairs as the king himself was wont to do. But when it became known, after some days, that Tarquinius had died, Servius did not resign the royal power, but continued to rule for a time, without being appointed by the people and without the consent of the Senate. Then after he had won over a large number of the people by all kinds of promises and by grants of land, he held an assembly and persuaded the people to choose him for their king. II. Grammar. 1. Explain the meaning of — adjective, indicative, impersonal, transitive, historic tense. 2. Decline in all numbers-πήχυς, χαρίεις, γεγώς, quercus, iter. 3. Compare-σοφός, μάκαρ, πλησίος, ἅρπαξ, καλῶς, pauper, frugi, providus, diu, amans. 4. Parseἀφῆκεν, ἀπέσβη, κρυφθῆτον, γεγράψεται, πολίτα, йTTш, satus, obsitus, sutus, partus, experrectus, abito, festinem, moremini, sunto. 5. Express in Greek and Latin :— Once, twofold, thirteen, hundredth, how many, both. 6. Write out in full: imperf. of eiu (ibo). 2 aor. imper. act. of didou. 7. Resolve the following Crases :— οὑμός, τοὔργον, τἄνδον, ταὐτά, τοἔμπαλιν. 8. Give the 1st pres. sing. of the and perf. and supine of-lavo, tondeo, fallo, com- 9. Distinguish between-εἰς, εἷς; ὄψ, ὤψ; κάρα, χαρά; πράξαι, πρᾶξαι; ἀνίστην, ἀνέστην; plus, magis; quotidie, indies; agmen, acies; sõles, sõles; păret, pāret. 10. Translate into Latin: (1) He feared Caesar would not promise to come. (2) Cicero ordered him to give the barbarians one gown apiece. (3) Why and whither are you hurrying so fast? (4) Many slaves are said to have been captured. (5) He left Rome on the 14 March, and died while staying at Athens on the 3rd January the following year. 11. Give the meanings of-sum, eo, dico, when compounded each with ad, in, inter; and state what cases the following prepositions govern, with what meanings in each instance:-κará, diá, ταρá, ob, praeter, coram, intra. 12. Turn into Oratio Obliqua : Ad vos vestramque fidem supplices confugimus; nihil nostra interest utrum sub illo legato Locros esse sinatis, an irato Hannibali ad supplicium dedatis. Non postulamus ut extemplo nobis, ut de absente, credatis. Si quidquam sceleris, quod homo in homines edere potest, in nos praetermisit; non recusamus quin et nos omnia eadem iterum, si pati possumus, patiamur, et ille omni divino humanoque liberetur scelere. III. Arithmetic. 1. Add together,, and; subtract from ; and divide 3 by 21. 2. Multiply 572-147 by 1.02; divide 16.3925 by 8.3. 4. Find the square root of 137641 and of 2.9929. 15 5. Express as a decimal and 916 as a vulgar fraction in its lowest terms. 6. Find the value of 525 of 17., and reduce the result to the decimal of 1l. 48. 7. Find (1) the simple interest, (2) the compound interest, on 250l. for 3 years at 5 per cent. 8. If by investing 13,500l. you have an income of 6077. 108., what per cent. do you obtain on your capital? 9. What is the area of a rectangular court 30 yards 2 ft. long and 26 yards broad? Find the cost of paving it at three farthings per square foot. 10. A bankrupt who pays 78. 6d. in the pound divides among his creditors. 15757. What do his debts amount to ? 11. 3 men working 8 hours a day can reap 15 acres in 8 days; how many men working 12 hours a day can reap 30 acres in 4 days? 12. Find the cost of papering a square room 22 feet long and 18 feet high with paper 2 feet wide, at 8d. a yard. IV. Euclid. [Two propositions at least from the Second Book are required.] 1. Define: A segment of a circle-a plane angle-a gnomon-an acute-angled triangle-a polygon-parallel straight lines. 2. Bisect a given rectilineal angle. 3. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square on the whole line is equal to the squares on the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts. 4. The complements of the parallelograms which are about the diameter of any parallelogram are equal to one another. 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. 6. 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. 7. Divide a given straight line into two parts so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square on the other part. 8. Describe a square that shall be equal to a given rectilineal figure. 9. Parallelograms on equal bases and between the same parallels are equal to one another. 10. Shew that (1) Every equilateral triangle is also equiangular. |