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The Fourth Year of the High School.

4. Vergil Course.—For teachers in high schools and academies,
for college preparation, and for students of Latin at large.

This course involves Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI with collateral
readings in Ovid's Metamorphoses; the principles of Latin versification
with scansion of the dactylic hexameter; the mythology of the
Greeks and Romans. The study of the author will be grammatical,
literary and culture-historical. Constant practice in sight reading.
High school grammar concluded, with accompanying prose composition.

(a) Grammar and Prose Composition: High school grammar and
prose composition.

Tuesday and Thursday. Professor Montgomery.

(b) Literature and Life: Vergil, varied with Ovid; the mythology
of the Greeks and Romans.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Professor Fitzhugh.

Daily, from 9:45 to 10:45. Cabell Hall, Room 1.

Text-Books.—Bennett's Latin Grammar and Latin Composition; Vergil's
Aeneid; Ovid's Metamorphoses (Miller); Fairbank's Mythology of
Greece and Rome; Bulfinch's Age of Fable.