OXFORD EXAMINATION PAPERS.

RESPONSIONS.

I.

For Latin Prose.

The night was spent by some in busy preparation, by others in a state of discomfort and terror, which those only can conceive who have been suddenly awakened from a state of peacefulness to the miseries of civil war. Whole families, who but yesterday lived in comfort and even luxury, now deemed themselves fortunate if they could obtain the shelter of some narrow room, to shield them from the bitter night air, or some portion of coarse food to satisfy the cravings of nature. Children clung in terror to their parents, to whom they had hitherto looked for protection; and those parents were little able to console them, being themselves full of apprehension for what the morrow might bring. Alas! few eyes save those of the hardy soldier, accustomed to such scenes, were closed in sleep that fearful night.

II.

Grammar Paper.

1. Give the gen. and acc. sing. and dat. plur. of Oépos, μέλας, γεγώς, ἥσσων, Ζεύς, aer, seges, alius, celer, ales.

2. Give the comparative and superlative degrees of εὐγενής, καλῶς, βραδύς, egregius, graviter, and the positive and comparative of πρῶτος, μήκιστα, ἐλάχιστος, summus, benevolentissimus.

3. Write out in full

Pres. subj. act. of kowów,

1 Aor. subj. mid. of кρúπτш,
Imperat. act. of ĕdo,

and give the 2 pers. sing. 2 aor. act. in all moods of γιγνώσκω, ἔχω.

4. Parse πέπυσται, πεῖσαι, μεθεῖτο, ὑφίστη, ἐφύσω, venibat, concentum, perrexissent, decōri, contigit.

5. Write down:

3 Pers. sing. 1 aor. imperat. act. of σréλλw,
3 Pers. plur. paulo-post fut. indic. of kadéw,
Perf. infin. pass. of кaλúñτw,

3 Pers. sing. imperf. indic. mid. of őλλvμı,

2 Pers. dual pres. optat. act. of yeλáw.

6. Give the perf. and supine of promo, spargo, sancio, parco, diffindo, diffido, adolesco, ordior, reor, lacesso.

7. Translate into Latin, both Oratio Recta and Oratio Obliqua :

(1) Go forward, I will follow.

(2) Will you give them three books apiece?
(3) I hoped that he would have satisfied us.

8. Translate into Greek, using the words given :-
(1) The man is good, who did that.

κάθημαι

πέτρα

(2) The rest of the women were sitting on the rock

θεάομαι
gazing at the storm.

λαῖλαψ.

τάσσω

ἔξω

πρὸ

(3) The army was drawn up outside the city in front τάφρος πρός τείχισμα

of the ditch near the fort.

9. Translate into Latin and Greek :

Five thousand nine hundred and eighty.

Three hun

dred and fourth. Six hundred times. The men themselves.

So many soldiers. Which of the two boys?

10. Compound cum-motus, in-nosco, adquaero, sub-rego. Contract ξάν, τοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡμεῖς. Correct ἐτύπθη, ἔκδοος, infactus.

III.

Arithmetic.

1. How many paces will a man take in walking from Oxford to London, a distance of 56 miles, each pace being 2 ft. 4 in. ?

2. Required the difference between 162 qrs. 1 bush. 1 pk. and 127 qrs. 4 bush. 3 pks. 1 gal.

3. If a friend lends me 250l. for 3 months, how long ought I to lend him 1877. 10s., to return the obligation? 4. Find by Practice the poor-rate on 12107. 158. at 3s. 4 d. in the pound.

5. Find the G. C. M. of 3074 and 1653; and the L. C. M. of 14, 36, 84, 10%, 144.

8. Extract the square root of 1706.5161; and of 2 to 3 places of decimals.

9. If with a capital of 500l. a tradesman gain 50l. in 7 months, in what time will he gain 60l. Ios. with a capital of 3857.?

10. From 57. 148. take 4·1257.; and reduce the result to the fraction of five guineas.

11. How many persons can be accommodated in a concert room which is 117 ft. long and 90 ft. wide; allowing a space of 2 ft. 3 in. by 1 ft. 6 in. for each sitting, and a gangway 3 ft. wide the whole length of the

room?

12. If the Three per Cents are at 94, what sum must be invested to produce an annual income of 100l.?

IV.
Euclid.

[N.B. Two Propositions at least from the Second Book are required.]

1. Define-figure, semicircle, polygon, rhombus, trapezium. When are two magnitudes said to coincide? What name is given to a triangle which has three unequal sides?

2. On the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles having their sides which are terminated at one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated at the other extremity equal to one another.

3. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, is equal to the rectangle contained by the two parts, together with the square on the aforesaid part.

4. Make a triangle of which the sides shall be equal to three given straight lines, but any two whatever of these must be greater than the third.

5. If a straight line be divided into two equal, and also into two unequal parts, the squares on the two unequal parts are together double of the square on half the line and of the square on the line between the points of section.

6. If a straight line fall on two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another, and the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite angle on the same side; and also the two interior angles on the same side together equal to two right angles.