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Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships
Scholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)
Rhodes scholarships
5. What is the Greek for—the same man, myself, upwards, as if, therefore,
thirty years?
6. Name all the prepositions which govern the dative case, and give their
meanings.
V AND VI. TRANSLATION FROM LATIN AND GREEK INTO ENGLISH.
V. TRANSLATION FROM LATIN INTO ENGLISH.
_The Paper contains the following Sections_:—
=1.= Passages from Authors not specially prescribed.
=2.= ” ” Caesar, De Bello Gallico I-IV.
=3.= ” ” Cicero, Philippics I, II.
=4.= ” ” Cicero, In Catilinam I-III, and In Verrem Actio I.
=5.= ” ” Cicero, Pro Murena and Pro Lege Manilia.
=6.= ” ” Cicero, De Senectute and De Amicitia.
=7.= ” ” Horace, Odes.
=8.= ” ” Horace, Satires.
=9.= ” ” Horace, Epistles.
=10.= ” ” Livy V, VI.
=11.= ” ” Virgil, Georgics.
=12.= ” ” Virgil, Bucolics and Aeneid I-VI.
N.B.—Candidates must select one and ONLY ONE of the Sections numbered
=1-12=.
VI. TRANSLATION FROM GREEK INTO ENGLISH.
_The Paper contains the following Sections_:—
=1.= Passages from Authors not specially prescribed.
=2.= ” ” Demosthenes, De Corona.
=3.= ” ” Euripides, (α) Hecuba, (β) Medea, (γ) Alcestis,
(δ) Bacchae.
=4.= ” ” Homer, Iliad I-VI.
=5.= ” ” Homer, Odyssey I-VI.
=6.= ” ” Plato, Apology, Crito.
=7.= ” ” Sophocles, Antigone and Ajax.
=8.= ” ” Xenophon, Anabasis I-V.
N.B.—Candidates must select one and ONLY ONE of the Sections numbered
=1-8=.
Each of the above Sections comprises from three to eight passages from
the Books or Sources mentioned, and the total amount of translation
required averages between fifty and sixty lines of ordinary text. No
questions on context or grammar are set; translation _only_.
APPENDIX IV
LIST OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AND LECTURERS
I. Literae Humaniores.
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