Excerpt from New First Latin Reader
The prescription of work for Examination in Latin for Pass Matriculation for the years 1907, 1908, 1909, and for Junior Teachers' Certificates for the year 1907, and presumably for the years 1908-1909, is denned by the Calendar of 1906-1907 of the University of Toronto as follows: -
Translation at sight of passages of average difficulty from Caesar, upon which special stress will be laid.
Translation from a prescribed portion of Vergil's Aeneid, with questions thereon.
Questions on Latin accidence.
Translation into Latin of English sentences to illustrate the common rules of Latin syntax, upon which special stress will be laid. The vocabulary will be taken from the prescribed portion of Caesar.
Examination upon a short prescribed portion of Caesar, to test the candidate's knowledge of Latin syntax and his power of idiomatic translation, etc.
The following are the texts prescribed: -
Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, Book IV., chaps. 20-38, and Book V., chaps. 1-23; Vergil, Aeneid, Book II., vv. 1-505.
Two papers will be set: (1) Translation at sight, Vergil and accidence. (2) Translation into Latin, syntax, and idiomatic translation from prescribed Caesar, etc.
An examination of the present book will show that these requirements have been kept steadily in view.
This book contains: -
(1) Full introduction to the reading of Caesar.
(2) Text of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum prescribed, with vocabulary of the more difficult and unusual words at the bottom of each page.
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