University of Virginia Library

I.—Ancient Languages.

PROFESSOR HARRISON.

ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN, EDWARD S. JOYNES.
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR IN GREEK, WM. DINWIDDIE.

In this school are taught the Latin and Greek Languages;
the Greek and Roman History, Geography, and Literature;
and the Hebrew Language. The instruction is given partly
by lectures and examinations, and partly by comments on
portions of the text-books appointed to be read by the students.

In Latin there are two classes, a Junior and a Senior; and
so in Greek.

The text-books used in the several classes are chiefly the
following:

1. In the Junior Latin Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar,
the Professor's "Exposition of some of the Laws of the
Latin Language," Virgil, Horace, Cicero's Orations, and
his Epistolæ ad Diversos, Terence, and Cæsar's Commentaries;
the last chiefly with a view to the written exercises.

2. In the Senior Latin Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar,
the Professor's Exposition, Horace, Juvenal, Livy, and
Tacitus.

3. In the Junior Greek Class: Kuhner's Elementary
Greek Grammar, Xenophon's Anabasis, an oration of Demosthenes,
Herodotus, and a play of Euripides or Æschylus.
The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is that
preferred.

4. In the Senior Greek Class: Kuhner's Larger Greek
Grammar, Euripides, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Homer

5. For the Roman History, studied in the Senior Latin
Class, Arnold's History of Rome is used as a text-book.
Niebuhr's History of Rome, and the History of Rome published
by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,
and the maps of ancient Italy published by the Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or Findlay's Ancient
Atlas, are recommended.

6. For the Ancient History of Greece, studied in the Senior
Greek Class, Smith's History of Greece, or Thirlwall's,
or Grote's History of Greece, and the maps published by the
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or Findlay's
Ancient Atlas, are recommended.

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, Plato, &c.

As an essential part of the plan of instruction, the students
of each class are required to furnish written exercises.
These 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.

7. Hebrew: The text-books are Biblia Hebraica, Nordheimer's
or Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, and Gesenii Lexicon
Manuale Hebr. et Chald., or Sauerwein's edition of Rehkopf's
Lex. Hebr. Chald.

In the written translations required as a test of the qualifications
of candidates for degrees, the passages used are selected
by the committee of examination, not from the portions
of authors which have been read and explained in the
lecture-room, but at will from the classic writers generally.