83. Q. Ovid’s verse in the “Metamorphoses” is the same as what? A. As that of Virgil and Homer, namely, the dactylic hexameter. 84. Q. What has the general agreement of thoughtful minds tended to affirm in regard to Julius Cæsar? A. The sentence of Brutus, as given by Shakspere, that he was “the foremost man of all this world.” 85. Q. What is the principal literary work of Cæsar that remains to us? A. His “Commentaries,” which is an account he wrote of his campaigns in Gaul. 86. Q. With the exception of a few instances, in what person does Cæsar write? A. In the third person. 87. Q. From whom did the ancient patrician family of Cæsar claim derivation? A. From Iulus, son of Trojan Æneas. 88. Q. The word Cæsar was made by Caius Julius a name so illustrious that it came afterward to be adopted by whom? A. By his successors in power at Rome, and finally thence to be transferred to the emperors of Germany, and to the autocrats of Russia, called respectively Kaiser and Czar. 89. Q. With whom was Cæsar associated in the first triumvirate? A. Pompey and Crassus. 90. Q. Out of the eight books comprised in Cæsar’s “Gallic Commentaries,” how many is the preparatory student usually required to read? A. Only four. 91. Q. With what two series of military operations on Cæsar’s part does the first book principally occupy itself? A. One directed against the Helvetians, and one against a body of Germans who had invaded Gaul. 92. Q. Of what is Cæsar’s tenth legion, that became famous in history, still a proverb? A. For loyalty, valor and effectiveness. 93. Q. In the second book Cæsar gives the history of his campaign against whom? A. The Belgians, made up of different tribes. 94. Q. Who were esteemed the most fierce and warlike of all the Belgian nations? A. The Nervians. 95. Q. After Cæsar’s successful campaign against the Belgian tribes, what was decreed for his victories? A. A thanksgiving of fifteen days, an unprecedented honor. 96. Q. In the third book an account is given of a naval warfare against whom? A. The Veneti. 97. Q. What is the first thing of commanding interest in the fourth book of Cæsar’s “Commentaries?” A. The case of alleged perfidy, with enormous undoubted cruelty, practiced by Cæsar against his German enemies. 98. Q. What famous feat on the part of Cæsar is narrated in the fourth book? A. That of throwing a bridge across the river Rhine. 99. Q. What were the dimensions of this bridge? A. It was fourteen hundred feet long, furnishing a solid roadway thirty or forty feet wide. 100. Q. With the relation of what enterprise does the fourth book close? A. The invasion by Cæsar of Great Britain. CHAUTAUQUA NORMAL COURSE. Season of 1884. LESSON VI.—BIBLE SECTION. _The Land of The Bible._ By REV. J. L. HURLBUT, D.D., AND R. S. HOLMES, A.M.