15.

Quinas hic capiti mercedes exsecat.

Hor. Sat. i. 2. 14.

Translate.

What was the usual rate of interest at Rome?

Mention some of the laws by which it was regulated.

16. Give the etymology of cænum, cærimonia, convicium, induciæ, pomarium, satira, sollemnis, sylva.

[Dean Ireland's Scholarship, 1844.]

To be translated into Latin Alcaics.

1.

The swallows in their torpid state

Compose their useless wing,

And bees in hives as idly wait

The call of early spring.

2.

The keenest frost that binds the stream,
The wildest wind that blows,

Are neither felt nor fear'd by them,

Secure of their repose.

3.

But man, all feeling and awake,

The gloomy scene surveys;

With present ills his heart must ache,

And pant for brighter days.

4.

Old Winter, halting o'er the mead,

Bids me and Mary mourn;

But lovely Spring peeps o'er his head,

And whispers your return.

5.

Then April, with her sister May,

Shall chase him from the bow'rs;

And weave fresh garlands every day,
To crown the smiling hours.

6.

And if a tear that speaks regret

Of happier times appear,

A glimpse of joy, that we have met,

Shall shine, and dry the tear.

Into Latin Elegiacs.

The sun, that walks his airy way,
To light the world and give the day;
The moon, that shines with borrow'd light;
The stars, that gild the gloomy night;
The seas, that roll unnumber'd waves;
The wood, that spreads its shady leaves;
The field, whose ears conceal the grain,
The yellow treasure of the plain;
All of these, and all I see,

Should be sung, and sung by me:
They speak their Maker as they can,
But want and ask the tongue of man.

[Dean Ireland's Scholarship, 1844.]