University of Virginia Library

I.—LATIN.

PROFESSOR HARRISON.

The subjects of instruction are the Latin Language and the
Roman History and Literature. It is endeavored to make the
practical study of the language more thorough and more profitable,
by connecting it with the scientific investigation of the doctrines
of the grammar and of the etymology. The latter involves
a regard to comparative etymology.

To the Roman History and Literature, with the related subjects,
so much attention is given as is found to be compatible
with the duty, more urgent as yet, of meeting the actual wants
of students in regard to the practical knowledge of the language,
and to a just theory of it. They occupy, however, as
heretofore they have done, one-third of the time allotted to the
Senior Class.

Text Books.—In the Junior Class: Zumpt's Latin Grammar,
the Professor's Exposition, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition,
Virgil, Horace, Terence, Cæsar's Commentarii, Cicero's Orations,
and his Epistolæ ad Diversos, (Familiares,) Freund's Lexicon,
abridged by Andrews, and Riddle's English Latin Lexicon.

In the Senior Class: the same Grammar and Lexicons, the
Professor's Exposition, Horace, Juvenal, Livy, Tacitus, and
Cicero's Epistolæ ad Diversos, (Familiares.) Other authors, and
parts of authors, are recommended to be read privately by the
student, both for exercise in the language, and for the acquisition

of the only knowledge of the literature that is comparatively of
much profit; e. g. Cicero de Officiis, de Republica, &c., Terence,
Plautus, &c.

In the Roman History and Literature, Arnold's History of
Rome, Niebuhr's Roman History, the History of Rome published
by U. Kn. Soc., Long's Ancient Atlas, Smith's Dictionary of
Greek and Roman Antiquities, (2d ed.,) and Browne's History
of Roman Literature, are recommended.

The students of both classes are required to furnish written
exercises, chiefly translations from English into Latin.

In the examination of candidates for degrees, the passages
given for the written translations are selected, not from the portions
of authors which have been read and explained in the lecture-room,
but from the classic writers at will.