20. Q. Where were the second and third delivered? A. In the Forum, to the popular assembly of citizens. 21. Q. What English clergyman and author has written a tragedy entitled “Catiline”? A. George Croly. 22. Q. What is the subject of the fourth speech delivered in the Senate? A. The disposal of the conspirators then in custody. 23. Q. By what name are fourteen of Cicero’s other orations known? A. The “Philipics.” 24. Q. Against whom were the “Philipics” directed? A. Mark Antony. 25. Q. What was the fate of Cicero? A. He was assassinated by the command of Antony. 26. Q. Next to the “Iliad” of Homer, and hardly second to that, what is the most famous of poems? A. The “Æneid” of Virgil. 27. Q. When and where was Virgil born? A. In 70 B. C., at Andes, near Mantau, northern Italy. 28. Q. What is the first of the three classes of poems of which Virgil’s works consist? A. Bucolics or Eclogues—pastoral poems. 29. Q. What is the most celebrated of these minor poems? A. Pollio, supposed to have been the poet’s friend in need. 30. Q. What famous imitation of the Pollio did Pope write in English? A. “Messiah,” a sacred Eclogue. 31. Q. What is the second class of Virgil’s poems? A. Georgics, or poems on farming. 32. Q. Whom does our author consider in many important respects the best of all of Virgil’s English metrical translators? A. The late Professor John Conington, of Oxford, England. 33. Q. Name two other English translators of the “Æneid”? A. John Dryden and William Morris. 34. Q. Name two American translators of the “Æneid”? A. C. P. Cranch and John D. Long. 35. Q. Of what set deliberate purpose is the “Æneid”? A. A Roman national epic in the strictest sense. 36. Q. Who was Æneas? A. The son of Venus by the Trojan shepherd Anchises. 37. Q. Seven years after the fall of Troy for what purpose did Æneas and his companions embark from Sicily? A. To found a new Troy in the west. 38. Q. In the first book of the “Æneid,” where was the fleet conveying Æneas and his companions driven? A. To the coast of Carthage. 39. Q. By whom were the Trojans received with generous hospitality? A. Dido, the Carthaginian queen. 40. Q. With what are the third and fourth books of the “Æneid” principally occupied? A. With the relation by Æneas to Queen Dido of his previous adventures and wanderings, including an account of the siege and fall of Troy. 41. Q. To what is the fourth book devoted? A. To the sad tale of Dido and her fatal passion for her guest. 42. Q. What is the course of Æneas in this affair? A. He ruins Dido, and under the cover of night deserts Carthage with his ships. 43. Q. What is the fate of Dido? A. She commits suicide, ending her sorrow on the funeral pyre. 44. Q. With what is the fifth book largely occupied? A. With an elaborate account of games celebrated by the Trojans on the hospitable shores of Sicily, in honor of the anniversary of the death of Anchises, the father of Æneas.