SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Fitz-Hugh.
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Mr. Bishop.
Mr. Barton.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: Latin A,
B, C, and D of the general entrance requirements, p. 81.
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 Romœ), 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 culture, 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 the Latin language, 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.
Latin A1: Latin A, B, C, and D of the general entrance requirements,
p. 81.
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. Barton.
Latin 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 (Book I) 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, Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Latin 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 (Book XXI) 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, Adjunct Professor McLemore.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Latin C1: Course B1 and Course B2 or the equivalent of both, prerequisite.
I. In Language: History of the Latin Language (Whitney's
Language and the Study of Language, Bennett's Latin Language), 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
Phormio, and Horace's Satires and Epistles, with study of the
meters of the drama—critical, Cicero's De Oratore and Orator, 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 Fitz-Hugh,
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Latin C2: Course B1 and Course B2 or the equivalent of both,
prerequisite.—Either Course C1 or Course C2 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: History of the Latin Language (Whitney's
Life and Growth of Language, Grandgent's Vulgar Latin), with oral and
written exercises (Mocre, Bennett, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Histories
and Pliny's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Mostellaria, Terence's
Andria, 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
Fitz-Hugh, Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Primarily for Graduates.
Latin D1: Course C1 or Course C2 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, Adjunct Professor
McLemore.
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.
For summer-school courses in Latin on which college-credit is
allowed, see p. 278.
