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II. Latin
No student will be admitted to this course who has had 2 years of high-school
Latin.
Latin A1: For Beginners: Elementary grammar, oral and written
composition, graded selections from Caesar, Nepos, and other representative
authors. Five hours a week. (Credit, 1 course for those who have offered
less than 2 units of Latin for entrance, and only upon completion of Latin A2.)
Professor Montgomery, Professor Lehman and Mr. Thompson.
No student will be admitted to this course who has had 4 years of high-school
Latin.
Latin A2: Latin A1, or Latin 2 of the entrance requirements prerequisite.—Cicero's
Orations (6), with grammar, composition and Roman Life;
Vergil's Æneid, Books I-VI, with grammar, composition, and parallel readings.
Five hours weekly. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 1 course.) Open only to students completing
A1, or offering two entrance units in Latin.)
Professor Montgomery, Professor Lehman and Mr. Thompson.
Latin B1: Latin A1 and A2, or Latin 4 of the entrance requirements
prerequisite.—In Language: General grammar, with oral and written exercises.
II. In Literature: Sallust, Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline;
The Elegiac Poets; Selected Letters of Cicero. III. In Life: The public and
private life of the Romans. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 1 course.)
Professor Montgomery, Professor Lehman and Mr. Thompson.
Latin B2: Latin B1 prerequisite.—I. In Language: General grammar, with
oral and written exercises. II. In Literature: Livy, Book I and Tacitus, Ger-
III. In Life: The Literature and Art of the Romans. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
1 course.)
Professor Lehman and Mr. Thompson.
Latin B3: Latin B1 prerequisite.—I. In Language: General grammar, with
oral and written exercises. II. In Literature: Livy, Books XXI and XXII, and
Tacitus, Agricola; Horace, Odes Books I-IV, and Epistles; Plautus, Miles
Gloriosus and Suetonius, Octavius. III. In Life: The Religion of the Romans.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 1 course.)
Professor Montgomery and Mr. Thompson.
Latin C: Two B courses prerequisite.—Courses leading to the degree of
Master of Arts. The requirements lie only in the School of Ancient Languages.
If the candidate's major work be in Latin, Greek B1 and B2 are the minimum
requirements.
Latin C1: Latin B1 and B2 or B3 prerequisite.—I. In Language: Advanced
prose composition. II. In Literature: Tacitus, Annals; Pliny, Letters and
Petronius, Satiricon; Juvenal, Satires and selections from other satirists. III. In
Life: The economic life of the Romans. (M.A. credit, 1 course.) Given in alternate
years with Latin C3. (Not offered in 1936-37.)
Professor Lehman and Mr. Constantine.
Latin C2: Latin B1 and B2, or B3 prerequisite.—I. In Language: Advanced
prose composition. II. In Literature: Tacitus, Histories; selections from
Cicero's Philosophical Works;; Lucretius, De Rerum Natura. III. In Life: The
philosophical thought of the Romans. (M.A. credit, 1 course.) Given in alternate
years with Latin C4. (Not offered in 1936-37.)
Professor Montgomery.
Latin C3: Latin B1 and B2, or B3 prerequisite.—I. In Language: Advanced
prose composition. II. In Literature:: Latin Literature from the fifth century on,
with special emphasis on the Latin of the Middle Ages. III. In life: The literary
life of the Romans in the Silver Age. (M.A. credit, 1 course.) Given in alternate
years with Latin C1.
Professor Lehman and Mr. Constantine.
Latin C4: Latin B1 and B2, or B3 prerequisite.—I. In Language: Advanced
prose composition. II. In Literature: Selections from Patristic Literature from
Tertullian to Gregory the Great. III. In Life: The literary life of the Romans
through the Golden Age. (M.A. credit, 1 course.) Given in alternate years
with Latin C2.
Professor Montgomery and Mr. Constantine.
Latin D: All C courses prerequisite.—A course leading to the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy. The requirements lie only in the School of Ancient Languages.
If the candidate's major work be in Greek, the completion of two
courses in Latin C will be the minimum requirement. If in Latin, the completion
of Greek C1 will be the minimum requirement.
It is the purpose of this course to prepare the candidate for independent
investigation of the sources of knowledge of the language, the monuments (literary
and objective), and the life of the Romans. The following is an outline
of the course:
Latin D1: Early Roman Comedy, Plautus, and Terence: Two hours
weekly, each term.
Professor Montgomery.
Latin D2: The History of Latin Satire, with Readings from Representative
Authors: Two hours weekly, each term.
Professor Lehman.
Latin D3: The Roman Historians: Two hours weekly, each term.
Professor Lehman.
Latin D4: The Roman Epic: Two hours weekly, each term.
Professor Montgomery.
Latin D5: Latin Epigraphy: Three hours weekly, each term.
Associate Professor Fraser.
Latin D6: Latin Palaeography: One hour weekly, for two terms.
Professor Lehman.
Latin D7: Historical Latin Grammar and Vulgar Latin: Two hours
weekly for one term, and one hour weekly for two terms.
Professor Montgomery.
Latin D8: Comparative Philology: Two hours weekly for one term.
Professor Lehman.
Sandys' History of Classical Philology will be required throughout the entire
D course.
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