ENGLISH-AFTERNOON. N. B.-The figures in the margin indicate full marks. REV. J. HECTOR, M. a. 1. (a.) Define a Noun. Distinguish between Abstract and Concrete nouns. (b.) Abstract nouns are derived from (1) Adjectives, (2) Verbs. Give three examples of each. (c.) Give three abstract nouns, that change their meaning, when in the plural number; and write three sentences to illustrate the exact meaning of the plurals. 2. The place of a noun may be taken by (1) a pronoun, (2) an adjective, (3) the infinitive of a verb, (4) an adverb, (5) a noun clause: Write a sentence to illustrate each. 3. (a) Define a Preposition. Some words are both prepositions and adverbs, others both prepositions and conjunctions. Write a sentence to illustrate each. (b. Write sentences to show that you understand the change in the meaning of the verbs, do, make, call, take, give, fall, when any one of the prepositions in, to, with. upon, up, for, is suffixed. 4. (a.) Define the terms voice, mood, tense. Define an auxiliary verb. How are auxiliary verbs used in the formation of voices, moods, and tenses ? Are auxiliary verbs used finitely? Give three examples. (b) State the mood of the italicised words in the following:"If you would but throw me into the water," said the gudgeon to the fisherman; "I should soon grow fatter and bigger, and then, whenever you wanted me, I would come and be caught." "If I could feel sure of that," replied the fisherman, " perhaps I might let you go." 5 3 8 6 5. (a.) Give the exact force of the following prefixes and 7 suffixes :-Thoroughfare, forbid, forenoon, gainsay, withdraw, bisect, counteract, retrograde, vice-chairman, proconsul, castle, maiden, blacken, clarify, lower, otherwise. (b.) Break up the following compound words into their component parts, and show in what relation these parts stand to each other in the several words : Steam engine, table-cover, man-servant, lamp-black, counterpoise, paper-cutter. 6. Write sentences to illustrate the literal and one figurative meaning of the following substantives: Dress, dawn, cradle, scourge, morning, sea. 7. Express the following idiomatically, as simple sentences:(1.) If you will think a little on the matter, you will find out where you are wrong. (2). When you have some leisure, tell me, what people are saying in the town. (3). The last time you and I met was in May, and this is December, eight months have passed. 8 (4). When a man lays out his plans for the future, he cannot tell how they will turn out. 8. Put the following together, as tersely as you can, in a 9 narrative style : Compound Compound Direct Direct Narration. A husbandman sowed some corn in his fields. The husbandman examined these nets. He did The husbandman cut the stork short. The husbandman ventured to say, that the LATIN POETRY-MORNING. N. B.-The figures in the margin indicate full marks. 1. Translate into English Me miseram quanti montes volvantur aquarum? Give the nominative and genitive cases singular, and the Nec vos, turba fere censu fraudata, magistri, Quique moves cælum, tabulamque coloribus uris; Mille Dea est operum: certe Dea Carminis illa est. 5 3. Translate and explain (a.) Trinacris a positu nomen adepta loci. (b.) Lituo pulcher trabeâque Quirinus. (c.) Nulla Sophocleo veniet jactura cothurno; Cum Sole et Lunâ semper Aratus erit. (d) Usibus e mediis soccus habendus erit. (e.) In cæno latuit Marius Cannâque palustri. 4. Fulmina post ausos cœlum adfectare Gigantas Sumta Jovi: primo tempore inermis erat. Translate these lines; scan them; and construct two new Elegiac couplets from any of the Latin words occurring in this paper 5. Curia, consilio quæ nunc dignissima tanto est, De stipula, Tatio regna tenente, fuit. Translate and explain these lines, and parse all the words. (a.) Ovid, having offended Augustus, was banished from (b.) He died at the age of 60. (c.) He was born at Sulmo and went to Athens to study. (d.) Cicero died the same year that Ovid was born. 7. Give examples of frequentative, desiderative, and inceptive verbs, with their meanings; also of the use of the cognate accusative. 8. Give the principal parts and the meanings of the following verbs-ulciscor, trado, patior, audeo, arcesso, parco, posco, disco, pono, fido, soleo 9. Distinguish between alius and alter, quisque and quisquam, quidam and quidem, vénit and venit. LATIN PROSE-AFTERNOON. N. B.-The figures in the margin indicate full marks. Examiner.-REV. J. EDWARDS, M. a. 1. Translate: Dum hæc Roma geruntur, C. Manlius ex suo numero ad Marcium Regem mittit, cum mandatis hujuscemodi : "Deos hominesque testamur, imperator, nos arma neque contra patriam cepisse, neque quo periculum aliis faceremus, sed uti corpora nostra ab injuria tuta forent; qui miseri, egentes, violentia atque crudelitate feneratorum, plerique patriæ, sed omnes fama atque fortunis, expertes sumus: neque cuiquam nostrum licuit, more majorum, lege uti, neque, amisso patrimonio, liberum corpus habere; tanta sævitia feneratorum atque prætoris fuit. Sæpe majores vestrum, miseriti plebis Romanæ, decretis suis inopia opitulati sunt: ac novissime, memoria nostra, propter magnitu. dinem æris alieni, volentibus omnibus bonis, argentum ære solutum est. Sæpe ipsa plebes, aut dominandi studio permota, aut superbia magistratuum, armata a patribus secessit. At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt; sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus, nisi cum anima simul, amittit. Te atque senatum obtestamur, consulatis miseris civibus; legis præsidium quod iniquitas prætoris eripuit, restituatis; neve eam nobis necessitudinem imponatis, ut quæramus, quonam modo ulti maxime sanguinem nostrum pereamus. (a.) Explain any historical allusions in the passage. (b.) What duty was entrusted to the prætor urbanus? (c.) Parse divitias. Give the corresponding adjective. Men tion other nouns like it in declension. (d.) Name and account for the case of Romæ, aliis, patriæ, fortunis, lege, plebis Romanæ, inopiæ, libertatem, civibus, and sanguinem. (e.) Parse fully, accounting for the Mood and Tense, and conjugate (giving the principal parts) faceremus, consulatis, restituatis, imponatis, quæramus, and pereamus. (f) Give the comparative and superlative forms of sæpe. What does maxime qualify? What is peculiar in its comparison? Give the parts or forms of comparison of those adverbs that resemble maxime and novissime respectively. (g.) Distinguish between the two forms of expression consulatis miseris civibus and consulotis miseros cives, and give an idiomatic English rendering of each of the forms. 2. Translate freely into idiomatic English : Sed, memoria mea, ingenti virtute, diversis moribus fuere viri duo, M. Cato, et C. Cæsar; quos, quoniam res obtulerat, silentio præterire non fuit consilium, quin utriusque naturam et mores, quantum ingenio possem, aperirem. Igitur his genus, ætas, eloquentia, prope æqualia fuere; magnitudo animi par, item gloria; sed alia alii. Cæsar beneficiis ac munificentia magnus habebatur; integritate vitæ Cato. Ille mansuetudine et misericordia clarus factus: huic severitas dignitatem addiderat. Cæsar dando, sublevando, ignoscendo; Cato nihil largiendo gloriam adeptus. In altero miseris perfugium; in altero malis pernicies: illius facilitas; hujus constantia laudabatur. Postremo, Cæsar in animum induxerat laborare, vigilare; negotiis amicorum intentus, sua negligere; nihil denegare, quod dono dignum esset; sibi magnum imperium, exercitum, novum bellum exoptabat, ubi virtus enitescere posset. At Catoni studium modestiæ, decoris, sed maxime severitatis erat. Non divitiis cum divite, neque factione, cum factioso; sed cum strenuo virtute, cum modesto pudore, cum innocente abstinentia certabat: esse, quam videri, bonus malebat: ita, quo minus gloriam petebat, eo magis sequebatur. (a.) Explain the syntax of alia alii. (b.) Decline through all their cases in the singular and in the plural hic and ille. Explain their usage, referring to the text. Explain also the usage of uterque and alter. (c.) Explain the syntax of the last sentence, quo minus gloriam petebat, eo magis sequebatur. Give, and explain the syntax of the corresponding Engl sh idiom. 3. (a) Decline in the singular and in the plural eadem domus. (b.) Give the comparative and superlative forms of fortis, liber, prudens, velox, malus, and parvus. 15 8 (c.) Write out the present and the imperfect indicative, and the imperfect subjunctive, of volo, nolo, and malo. 4. Translate into Latin prose : (a.) The senate decreed that the consuls should hold a levy ; that Antonius with an army should hasten in pursuit of Catiline, and that Cicero should protect the city. (b.) To this address Q. Marcius replied that, if they wished to make any petition to the senate, they must lay down their arms and proceed as suppliants to Rome. Examiners SANSKRIT-MORNING. PANDIT HARIŚCHANDRA KABIRATNA, {BANDIWAR ABIŚCHANDRA. (N .B.—The figures in the margin indicate full marks.) (a.) उदारचरितानान्तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ॥ (d) छिद्रेष्वनथी बहुलौभवन्ति ॥ (a.) Parse कुटुम्बकम् in the first line, and शत्रुणा and सविना in the fourth. 10 6 (b.) In the third line, why is the singular number ( एतत् ) used instead of the plura ( एतानि ) ? 2. Turn the following into simple prose : (a.) ते वयं बोधितास्तेन नित्यमस्मद्धि तैषिण 1 पिचा कनीयसा स्नेहादुबुद्धिमन्तोऽशिवं ग्टहम् । (b.) वायसं हृदयं नूनं तस्य दुष्कृतकर्म्मणः । यस्त्वां धर्म्मपरं ज्येष्ठं रूक्षाण्यश्रावयत्तदा ॥ (c.) दान्तं तच्च सभामध्ये आसनं रत्नभूषितम् । दृष्ट्वा कुशष चेमां शोको मां बन्धयन्यलम् ॥ (d.) तमिमं पुरुषव्याघ्रं पूजितं देवदानवैः । ध्यायन्तमर्जुनं दृष्ट्वा कस्माद्राजन्न कुप्यसि ॥ 3 6 |