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SCHOOL OF LATIN.

Professor Fitz-Hugh.

Mr. McLemore.

Mr. Bishop.

Mr. Cowardin.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The four units
prescribed on page 69 for admission to Latin 1A.

Preparation.—The Latin work of the university finds its logical
place in the public school system as the continuation of the Latin work
of the High School. It presupposes accordingly four years of competent
instruction in Latin, with daily recitations of at least forty minutes
each, and it implies the use of the Roman pronunciation, the habitual
observance of quantity and accent, regular drill in grammar and prose
composition through all preparatory years, elementary reading (Viri
Romæ), Nepos (the Roman Lives), Cæsar's Gallic War, Cicero's easier
Orations, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Vergil's Æneid. If the preparation
of the student justifies it, he will be admitted to advanced standing, with
due credit for all work done elsewhere by him.

Attention is specially invited to the importance of beginning Greek
and at least one Romanic language for all who wish to reap the full
cultural benefit of the university courses in Latin. The Greek illumines
incomparably all parts of Latin study, which bears in turn a like relation
to the Romanic.

General Statement.—The first five courses in Latin are devoted to the
broad cultural study of the language, literature, and life of the Romans.
The culture we enjoy to-day has its source in the culture of the Greeks and
Romans. Greece is the fountain head of civilization, and Rome its universalizer
and transmitter to the modern world: thus Greek culture is
the ultimate, Roman the immediate source of all modern culture. In the
course of the instruction, therefore, the effort is made to exhibit as far
as possible the relation of Roman civilization to the Greek, on the one
hand, and to the Romanic and modern, on the other, and thus to emphasize
the unity and continuity of all human culture. Hence the importance
of the study of Greek and of at least one Romanic language is specially
commended to the student of Latin.

The work is organized in all years as follows:

• I. In Language: Systematic study of Latin grammar, with oral
  and written exercises in prose composition. One hour a week.

• II. In Literature: Reading of authors in culture-historical series.
  Two hours a week.

• III. In Life: Systematic study of Roman culture-history in English,
  hand in hand with the study of the Latin authors.

Students may enter any of the courses in Latin at the beginning
of any term of the session, and will receive full credit for the course
on completing subsequently the work of the remaining term or terms of
the course in question.

For Undergraduates.

Course 1A: The four units prescribed on page 69 for admission to
the School of Latin, prerequisite.

I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Moulton-Collar, Mather-Wheeler).

II. In Literature: Historical, Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy
of Catiline—epic, Vergil's Æneid (Books VII-XII), and Ovid's
Metamorphoses (Books XIII-XIV), with study of the hexameter—philosophic,
Cicero's Friendship and Old Age, and his Tusculan Disputations
and Dream of Scipio.

III. In Life: The geography, history, private, and public life of
the Romans (Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Abbott's Short History of Rome,
Johnston's Private Life of the Romans, Tighe's Roman Constitution).

Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1-2; Section II, Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 1-2, Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. Bishop,
Mr. Cowardin.

Course 2B: Course 1A or its equivalent, prerequisite.

I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Nutting, Gildersleeve-Lodge, Bennett).

II. In Literature: Historical and biographic, Livy's Early History
of Rome (Books I-II) and Tacitus' Agricola—lyric, idyllic, and didactic,
Catullus' Odes and Vergil's Bucolics and Georgics, with study of the
lyric meters—philosophic, Cicero's De Officiis and Seneca's Moral Essays.

III. In Life: The religion and mythology of the Romans (Carter's
Religion of Numa, Fairbank's Mythology of Greece and Rome).

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.

Course 3B: Course 1A or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Either Course
2B or Course 3B may be offered as the elective from Group I, and the
other may be offered as an elective-at-large.

I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Nutting, Gildersleeve-Lodge, Bennett).

II. In Literature: Historical and descriptive, Livy's Hannibali
War (Books XXI-XXII) and Tacitus' Germania—lyric and elegiac,
Horace's Odes and The Roman Elegiac Poets, with study of the meters
of lyric and elegiac verse—critical and didactic, Cicero's De Claris
Oratoribus and Quintilian's Training of the Orator.

III. In Life: The art of the Romans (Tarbell's History of Greek
Art, Goodyear's Roman Art).

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course 4C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either,
prerequisite.

I. In Language: History of the Latin Language (Bennett, Grandgent),
with oral and written exercises (Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).

II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Annals and
Cicero's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Captivi, Terence's
Andria, and Horace's Satires and Epistles, with study of the meters of
the drama—critical, Cicero's De Oratore and Tacitus' Dialogue on the
Orators.

III. In Life: The literary life of the Romans (Mackail's Latin
Literature and Laing's Masterpiece of Latin Literature).

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.

Course 5C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either, prerequisite.—Either
Course 4C or Course 5C may be offered as one of
the three distinct subjects required for the M. A. degree, and the other
may be offered as the fourth, or elective-at-large.

I. In Language: Science of Language and Methods of Syntax (Whitney,
Morris), with oral and written exercises (Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).

II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Histories
and Pliny's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Mostellaria, Terence's
Phormio, and Juvenal's Satires, with study of the meters of the
drama—philosophic, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura and Cicero's De Natura
Deorum.

III. In Life: The philosophic life of the Romans (Mayor's History
of Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero and Pater's Marius the
Epicurean.

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.

Primarily for Graduates.

Course 6D: Course 4C or Course 5C or the equivalent of either,
prerequisite.—This course extends through three years and is intended
for those who desire to specialize for one, two, or three years in classical
philology. It contemplates especially the needs of those who choose
Latin as their major elective for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Roman civilization is the vital link between the Hellenic and the Romanic,
and hence Latin philology, which is the science of Roman civilization,
has vital points of contact with Greek philology on the one hand and with
Romanic on the other. If the candidate's major elective be Latin, a respectable
familiarity with Greek is required, since the language, literature,
and life of the Romans are saturated with Greek influence. If the
candidate's major elective be Romanic, the technical Greek requirement
is waived as far as practically possible, and he is guided into the history
of the Roman popular vernacular, the common source of the Romanic
tongues, and into an acquaintance with the authors illustrating the Vulgar
Latin in literature.

Plan of Work.—It is the aim of this course, as far as the teaching
force and the resources of the School permit, to prepare the candidate
to investigate independently the sources of our knowledge of the language,
monuments (literary and objective), and life of the Romans. The
following is therefore an outline of the course:

I. In Language: Elements of comparative grammar (Giles, supplemented
by Hirt and Sommer on Sounds and Inflections and by Brugmann
and Schmalz on Syntax)—introduction to Latin historical grammar
(Lindsay, supplemented by Landgraf)—systematic grammar (Kühner)
with stylistic exercises, oral and written, in conjunction with Cicero's
De Oratore—reading of epigraphic and literary monuments illustrating
the history of the Latin Language.

II. In the Literary and Objective Monuments of the Romans: Reading
of authors in groups systematically planned to illustrate the literary
life of the Romans—history and interpretation of texts—elements of
palæography (Johnson, supplemented by Thompson), epigraphy (Lindsay,
supplemented by Egbert and Cagnat), numismatics (Gnecchi, supplemented
by Hill), topography and remains (Platner, Peterson, Huelson, Mau,
Strack, Furtwængler).

III. In Roman Life: Constructive study of Roman culture-history—
reading of authors illustrating the development of Roman civilization—
study of modern authorities in Roman culture-history (Philippson, Nissen,
Mommsen, Marquardt-Mommsen, Preller-Jordon, Springer-Michaelis and
Winter, Schanz, Windelband).

Friday, Saturday, 12-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh.

Aids.—For the sake of first-hand access to important modern authorities
in Latin philology, the candidate is urged to acquire a good reading
knowledge of German, French, and Italian. Such a mastery of German
and French is imperative.