University of Virginia Library

I.—ANTIENT LANGUAGES.

Professor Harrison.—In this school are taught the Latin and Greek
Languages, the Greek and Roman History, Geography, and Liturature,
and the Hebrew Language. The instruction, given by prelections and
examinations, comprises the following subjects.

1. The doctrine of primary and secondary significations of words, and
the method to be pursued in ascertaining them:—the Etymology, comprising
the laws which regulate the formation and composition of words:—
the doctrine of the inflection or grammatical forms of words, illustrated by
reference to the principles of the etymology:—the Syntax or doctrine of
the relations which the words in a sentence sustain to each other, and the

connection between different sentences and members of a sentence, as expressed
by connecting particles:—the principles of grammatical criticism,
and the idiomatic peculiarities of the language—the doctrine of the quantity
of syllables, and the metres.

2. The Greek and Roman History, Geography, and Literature, are
taught by prelections, and by commenting on portions of the text-books
appointed to be read. These form part of the studies of the senior classes.

3. The Hebrew Language.

The text-books are:

In the Junior Latin Class:—Horace, Cicero's Epistles ad Diversos,
Terence and Cæsar's Commentaries; the last chiefly with a view to the
written exercises. Zumpt's Latin Grammar is referred to. The student
should have Lempriere's Classical Dictionary, new edition by Anthon, in
two vols; Adams' Roman Antiquities: and the ancient, with the corresponding
modern maps, of the series published by the "Society for the Diffusion
of Useful Knowledge," or the "Æton Comparative Atlas.

In the Senior Latin Class:—Juvenal, Livy
and Tacitus. Of both Livy
and Tacitus the student should have the whole remaining works.

In the Junior Greek Class:—Xenophon's Anabasis, a play of Euripides,
or Æschylus, and Herodotus. Buttmann's Greek Grammar, is referred
to;—the "Larger" Grammar of Buttmann, by Robinson, is to be
preferred. Donnegan's Greek and English Lexicon, and Thiersch's
Greek Tables by Patton, are recommended.

In the Senior Greek Class:—Euripides, Sophocles, Thucydides, and
Homer. In the prelections to this class, it is attempted to introduce the
student into the higher departments of grammatical criticism; references
are made to the large Grammar of Matthiæ, and to the annotations of Porson,
Shæfer, Hermann, Erfurdt, Elmsley, &c.

The History of Rome in the Library of Useful Knowledge, or Niebuhr's
Roman History, translated by Hare and Thirlwell, and Ferguson's Roman
Republic. Besides the ancient authorities, the students are advised to
use Heeren's Manuel, and Montesquieu's "Grandeur et Decadence des
Romains." For the Roman Geography the Professor's printed notes from
the text-book.

In Grecian History, &c.:—The History of Greece published by the
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge is the text-book. Reference
is made to Mitford, Gillies, &c. The Professor's printed notes form
the text for the prelections on the Grecian Geography. In both Grecian
and Roman History, pains are taken to point out the ancient authorities.

In Hebrew;—Biblia Hebraica, edit: Van Der Hooght, by D'Allemand,
London; or the revised edition by Aug: Hahn, Leipsic, which is cheaper.
Stuart's Hebrew Grammar, 3d edition, and Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon,
by Gibbs: (not the abridgement.)

It is expected of the students of Latin and Greek, that they shall read
in their rooms such authors and parts of authors, prescribed by the Professor,
as cannot be read in the lecture room: e. g.: Cicero's Epistles to
Atticus, his Orations (selected,) and Treatise "de Republica;" Sallust, Virgil,
Terence, Plautus: Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes,
Demosthenes, Æschines, Thucydides, &c.

As an essential part of the plan of instruction, the students of each class
are required to furnish written exercises; which consist in the conversion
of Latin or Greek into English, and of English into Latin or Greek.

The exercises are examined by the Professor, and the errors marked: they
are then returned to the students, and the corrections stated and explained
in the presence of the class. For these exercises the classic authors are
used as the text.