Foliorum Centuriae SELECTIONS FOR TRANSLATION INTO LATIN AND GREEK PROSE CHIEFLY FROM The University and College Examination Papers BY THE REV. HUBERT ASHTON HOLDEN M.A. FELLOW AND CLASSICAL LECTURER OF TRINITY COLLEGE EDITOR OF ARISTOPHANES Longum est iter per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla. SENECA, Epist. vi. Cambridge : TABLE OF CONTENTS. N.B. The numbers refer to the pages. CHARACTERS, 83, 90, 131, 158, 164: CICERO (Merivale), 214, 134 (Middleton), 160 ST BARTHOLOMEW, Massacre of, 96 death, 5; his passage of the Rubicon, 165, 166 CARTHAGE, New, description of, 46 Cardinal WOLSEY, 136 his concealment in an oak, 15, 143 CHARLES V, his resignation of his dominions, 215, 172 Cortes, appointed commander of an expedition, 210 mutiny against, 148 CROMWELL, his sense of danger, 126 DARIUS attacked by Scythians, 333 exhortation to the Conspirators, 203 FRENCH invasion of Italy, 21 sadors, 288 NAPOLEON, dispersion of his ships, 52 PERKIN WARBECK, 279; his design upon Kent, 358 RICHARD, King, disturbance in England during his SICILIAN Expedition, 232 his absolving the ten generals, 243 TEMPLE appointed ambassador to Holland, 167 TIBERIUS, change in his character, 31 Titus, his destruction of Jerusalem, 34 ZARAGOZA, description of, 223 AMERICANS, their Progenitors, 250 Ambition, ultimate result of, 31, 181 Antiquity often reverenced from prejudice, 324 Armies, their number of little import, 114 Art cannot give the rules that make an art, 108; the inventors of the arts worshipped in early ages, 21; all arts the reliques of an intellect defaced with sin Astronomy, 116; does not excite admiration in the ATHENIANS, prouder of their warlike achievements than Avarice, twofold, 6; often connected with Luxury, 20; how it becomes a general public mischief, 276 BARBARIANS, character of those with whom the Romans fought, 132 |