Greeks or settled by Greeks, and point out the situation of each. 6. The conquest of Greece by the Romans. Why were the Romans more successful than the Persians had been? 7. Themistocles and Pericles. 8. Pausanias and Lysander.

XXIV.

1. "Interfectus est propter quasdam seditionum suspiciones C. Gracchus." (Cicero.) Translate and explain. 2. "Etenim recordamini, Quirites, omnes civiles dissensiones, neque (solum) eas quas audistis, sed et has quas vosmetipsi meministis et vidistis." (Cicero.) Translate and explain. 3. "Majores vestri cum Antiocho, cum Philippo, cum Pœnis bella gesserunt." (Cicero.) Translate and explain. 4. Brundisium, Caieta, Ostia, Gallia Cisalpina, Samos, Cilicia, Pontus (the country). (Cicero.) Give the position of each. "Classes æratas, Actia bella,

5.

Cernere erat; totumque instructo Marte videres
Fervere Leucaten (auroque), effulgere fluctus.

Regina in mediis patrio (vocat) agmina sistro,

Necdum etiam geminos a tergo respicit angues.” (Virgil.) Translate and explain. 6. Olympia and the Olympic Games. The Olympiads. 7. Describe the battle of Marathon and the battle of Salamis. 8. The character, policy, and works of Pericles. 9. Name the principal events which mark the decline and fall of the Athenian power. 10. The most brilliant period and the most noted men in the history of Thebes. Mention two battles, give the geographical site of each, and date one of them. 11. Demosthenes. 12. Alexander's empire, and the kingdoms into which it broke up. Date his death.

XXV.

1. "Hæc (sc. Italia) genus acre virûm, Marsosque, pubemque Sabellam,

Adsuetumque malo Ligurem, Volscosque verutos Extulit; hæc Decios, Marios, magnosque Camillos, Scipiadas duros bello, et te, maxime Cæsar." (Virgil.) 2. "Nos, quorum majores Antiochum regem classe Persenque superarunt, omnibusque navalibus pugnis Carthaginienses

. . vicerunt, ii nullo in loco jam prædonibus pares esse poteramus." (Cicero.) (Ii may be rendered, imperfectly, by even we.) 3. “Ego enim sic existimo: Maximo, Marcello, Scipioni, Mario, et ceteris magnis imperatoribus, non solum propter virtutem, sed etiam propter fortunam, sæpius imperia mandata atque exercitus esse commissos." (Cicero.) With this passage, take the following from Virgil:"Tu Maximus ille es,

Unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem."

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4. Describe the city of Athens. 5. Name and describe some important places and events which are associated with the rivalry between Athens and Sparta. 6. What were the causes of the fall of the Athenian power? 7. The first Darius and the last Darius: how were they connected with Grecian history? 8. Name some of the Greek islands, and give their situation, with anything memorable in their history. 9. The rise and fall of the Achæan League. 10. What Romans gained great victories over Greeks? when, and where? 11. Name the sections or provinces of the Peloponnesus, and point out places of historical importance. (Draw a map, if you choose.)

XXVI.

1. By a single map (or otherwise) illustrate the following quotations from Caesar, without writing a translation of them: Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit. - Sequanos a Provincia nostra Rhodanus dividit. - Extremum oppidum Allobrogum est proximumque Helvetiorum finibus Geneva. Ex eo oppido pons ad Helvetios pertinet. Give the modern names of the rivers. 2. By means of a map, or a description in words, show the situation, relatively to Rome, of the Italian districts named in the following passage from one of Cicero's orations against Catiline, without writing a translation of the passage: Video, cui Apulia sit attributa, qui habeat Etruriam, qui agrum Picenum, qui Gallicum, qui sibi has urbanas insidias caedis atque incendiorum depoposcerit. 3. Write explanatory notes on the following lines from the prophecy of Anchises in the sixth book of the Aeneid: Ille triumphata Capitolia ad alta Corintho

Victor aget currum caesis insignis Achivis. Eruet ille Argos Agamemnoniasque Mycenas, Ipsumque Aeaciden, genus armipotentis Achilli, Ultus avos Trojae templa et temerata Minervae. 4. Name (and date, as far 4. The Aryan settlement as you can) the chief occa- of Europe. 5. Forms of govsions which brought Greeks ernment in Greece. 6. Philinto contact with Persians. ip and Alexander; the results Give the situation of places. of the conquests of the latter. 5. Themistocles and Aris- 7. The increase of the dotides. 6. The causes and minion of Rome during and results of the Peloponnesian in consequence of the Punic War.

7. What objects Wars. 8. The Claudian,

would an Athenian be most | Flavian, and "Good" emperName them, and give

likely to point out to a stran-ors.

ger visiting Athens ?

De- some account of one emperor

scribe some of them. 8. from each class. 9. DioName some turning-points or cletian and Constantine. critical periods in the history

of Athens. What made them

such?

XXVII.

1. Cicero mentions, in his account of the depredations of the pirates, Cnidus, Colophon, Samos, Misenum. Where were they? 2. In what part of Gaul was the territory of the Aedui? that of the Sequani? that of the Arverni? that of the Treviri? Describe the course of the Rhodanus, the Arar, and the Rhenus, and give the modern names of these rivers. 3. Write explanatory notes on the following lines from the third book of the Aeneid:

Linquimus Ortygiae portus, pelagoque volamus.
Bacchatamque jugis Naxon viridemque Donusam,
Olearon, niveamque Paron, sparsasque per aequor
Cycladas, et crebris legimus freta consita terris.
Nauticus exoritur vario certamine clamor ;

Hortantur socii, Cretam proavosque petamus.

4. Name several of the 4. Compare the geographrivers or mountains in Greece ical character of Greece with which are noted in mythol- that of Italy. 5. B. C. 490, ogy or history. 5. Name 480, 431-404, 334-323: to some places of historical in- what events in the history terest in the Peloponnesus, of Greece do these dates and give the position of each. point? 6. The relations of

6. Represent by a map, or the Italian States to Rome. describe otherwise, the course 7. The Roman civil wars. of the expedition of Cyrus 8. The extent of the Roman the Younger, and of that of Empire. 9. The English Alexander of Macedon. 7. conquest of Britain. The Roman Conquest of

Greece. 8. B. C. 490, 480, 431 - 404, 334 – 323 : to what events in the history of Greece do these dates point? 9. Give the situation of each of the following places, and connect an event with each: Marathon, Thermopylae, Plataea, Leuctra, Syracuse, Chaeronea.