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 Cambridge JOHN DEIGHTON LONDON GEORGE BELL FLEET STREET M.DCCC.LII. 260 f. 27. Longum est iter per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla. TAL Cambridge: Printed at the Maiversity Press. SENECA, Epist. vi. ST BARTHOLOMEW, Massacre of, 96 CESAR, JULIUS, state of feeling at Rome upon his CARTHAGE, NEW, description of, 46 Cardinal WOLSEY, 136 CHARLES II, his march from Shrewsbury, 88 his concealment in an oak, 15, 143 CORTES, appointed commander of an expedition, 210 FRENCH invasion of Italy, 21 HOTHAM, SIR JOHN, his interview with LORD DIGBY, 98 LONDON, great tumult in, 226 LORENZO DE MEDICI, his death, 206 LOUISE, Regent of France, 244 MAJORIAN, 101 MARIE ANTOINETTE, 201 MARY, Queen of Scots, her valediction to France, 237 SICILIAN Expedition, 232 SOCRATES, his death, 309 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 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 |