SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor FitzHugh.
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Mr. Barton.
Mr. Nelson.
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 entrance requirements, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Mather-Wheeler, Moulton-Collar).
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, and private and public life of
the Romans (Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Myers' Ancient History, Johnston's
Private Life of the Romans, Tighe's Roman Constitution).
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section 1, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 1-2; Section II, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell
Hall. Professor FitzHugh, Mr. Barton, Mr. Nelson.
Latin B1: Latin 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 and elegiac, Catullus'
Odes and the Elegiac Poets, with study of the lyric and elegiac 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 FitzHugh, Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Latin B2: Latin 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 descriptive, Livy's Hannibalic War
(Books XXI-XXII) and Tacitus' Germania—lyric, idyllic, and didactic,
Horace's Odes and Vergil's Bucolics and Georgics, with study of the meters
of lyric verse—critical and didactic, Cicero's De Claris Oratoribus and Quintilian's
Training of the Orator.
III. In Life: The art of the Romans (Reinach's Apollo, Tarbell's
History of Greek Art, Goodyear's Roman Art).
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12.
Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh, Adjunct Professor McLemore.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Latin C1: Latin B1 and 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 (Duff's Literary History
of Rome and Laing's Masterpieces of Latin Literature).
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
Latin C2: Latin B1 and B2, or the equivalent of both, prerequisite.
I. In Language: History of the Latin Language (Whitney's Life
and Growth of Language, Grandgent's Vulgar Latin), 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 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 (Mackail's Latin
Literature, 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,
Adjunct Professor McLemore.
For Graduates.
Latin D1: Latin C1 or 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 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 (Johnston, supplemented by Thompson), epigraphy (Lindsay,
supplemented by Egbert and Cagnat), numismatics (Gnecchi, supplemented
by Hill), topography and remains (Platner, Petersen, Huelsen,
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, Wissowa, Preller-Jordan, Springer-Michaelis
and Winter, Schanz, Windelband, Sandys).
Friday, Saturday, 12-2. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh, 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. 273.
