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For Undergraduates.

Course A1: The four units prescribed on page 71 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).

(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 1-2; Section II, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2, Cabell
Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Cowardin.

Course B1: Course A1 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).

(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore.

Course B2: Course A1 or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Either
Course B1 or Course B2 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 Hannibalic
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).

(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore.