CLASSICAL TRIPOS PART IA

Paper 6

MODERN AND MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES TRIPOS Part IA

Paper GL 6

Tuesday 19 April 2016 1.30 to 4.30

GREEK PROSE AND VERSE COMPOSITION

Attempt one section only.

Section B may be attempted only by candidates who have offered Paper 2/Paper GL 2,
Alternative Greek Translation.

Credit will be given for knowledge of the basic principles of Greek accentuation.

Write your number (not your name) on the cover of the booklet.

Candidates who do not write legibly may find themselves at a grave disadvantage.

STATIONERY REQUIREMENTS SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

8 Page Booklet x 1 None
Rough Work Pad x 1

You may not start to read the questions

printed on the subsequent pages of this
question paper until instructed that you
may do so by the Invigilator
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SECTION A

Either (a) For GREEK PROSE:

These people have done everything in a lawful and reasonable fashion: they are seen not to
have committed any offences, but have had the greatest respect for justice. Because these
men are behaving unjustly, I was reasonably annoyed, in the belief that life was organised
on a principle of hurting one’s enemies and benefiting one’s friends. I should be far more
grieved, however, if I were to be deprived of justice at your hands, because I shall be seen
as having suffered this evil not because of enmity but because of some wickedness in the
city. I am on trial nominally over this charge, but in reality over my citizenship. If I obtain
justice—and I am trusting in your verdict—I would remain in the city. If, however, I were
to be unjustly convicted after being brought before you by these people, I should run
away. For what hope would there be to encourage me to share in the citizenship?

LYSIAS 9.19-21 (trans. S. C. Todd)

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Or (b) For GREEK PROSE:

SOCRATES: Let us then look at the life of pleasure and the life of wisdom separately and
consider and judge them.
PROTARCHUS: How do you mean?
SOCRATES: Let there be no wisdom in the life of pleasure and no pleasure in the life of
wisdom. For if either of them is good, it cannot have need of anything else;
and if either is found to need anything, we can no longer regard it as our
true good.
PROTARCHUS: No, of course not.
SOCRATES: Shall we then undertake to test them through you?
PROTARCHUS: By all means.
SOCRATES: Then answer.
PROTARCHUS: Ask.
SOCRATES: Would you, Protarchus, be willing to live your whole life in the enjoyment
of the greatest pleasures?
PROTARCHUS: Of course I should.
SOCRATES: Would you think you needed anything further, if you were in complete
possession of that enjoyment?
PROTARCHUS: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: But consider whether you would not have some need of wisdom and
intelligence and power of calculating your wants and the like.
PROTARCHUS: Why should I? If I have enjoyment, I have everything.

PLATO Philebus 20e-21b (trans. H. N. Fowler)

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Or (c) For GREEK IAMBICS:

MENELAUS
Woman, these are but trifles, all unworthy
of my royal state, as you say, and of Greece.
Yet know that, when one has set his heart on aught,
This is more to him than to take Troy.
I stand my daughter’s champion, for I count
it no trifle, the robbery of marriage-right.
Nought else a wife may suffer matches this.
Losing her husband, she does lose her life.

EURIPIDES

Or (d) For GREEK ELEGIACS:

And now, when angry heaven would

Behold a spectacle of blood,
Fortune and he are called to play
At sharp before it all the day:
And tyrant Love his breast does ply
With all his winged artillery,
Whilst he, betwixt the flames and waves,
Like Ajax, the mad tempest braves.

ANDREW MARVELL
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SECTION B

Only candidates who have offered Paper 2/GL 2, Alternative Greek Translation,
may attempt this section.

For GREEK PROSE:

Please consider this point as well, gentlemen. They say that, on the night in question, I sent
my maid to find the young man. Now as far as I am concerned, gentlemen, it would have
been just to capture the man who had corrupted my wife in any way that I could. If I had
sent her to summon him when words alone had been spoken but no act had been
committed, then I would have been acting unlawfully. If however I had captured him when
he had already achieved all he wanted and had repeatedly entered my house, then I would
have thought that I was acting justly, whatever methods I used to capture him. But
consider the possibility that they are lying about this point as well. You can see this easily
from what follows. As I told you before, gentlemen, Sostratos is a close friend of mine.

LYSIAS 1.37-39

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SECTION C

Candidates should attempt two passages, at least one of which should be verse.

(a) For GREEK PROSE:

These people have done everything in a lawful and reasonable fashion: they are seen not to
have committed any offences, but have had the greatest respect for justice. Because these
men are behaving unjustly, I was reasonably annoyed, in the belief that life was organised
on a principle of hurting one’s enemies and benefiting one’s friends. I should be far more
grieved, however, if I were to be deprived of justice at your hands.

LYSIAS 9.19-20 (trans. S. C. Todd)

(b) For GREEK PROSE:

SOCRATES: Let there be no wisdom in the life of pleasure and no pleasure in the life of
wisdom. For if either of them is good, it cannot have need of anything else;
and if either is found to need anything, we can no longer regard it as our
true good.
PROTARCHUS: No, of course not.
SOCRATES: Shall we then undertake to test them through you?
PROTARCHUS: By all means.
SOCRATES: Then answer.
PROTARCHUS: Ask.
SOCRATES: Would you, Protarchus, be willing to live your whole life in the enjoyment
of the greatest pleasures?
PROTARCHUS: Of course I should.

PLATO Philebus 20e-21a (trans. H. N. Fowler)

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(c) For GREEK IAMBICS:

MENELAUS
Woman, these are but trifles, all unworthy
of my royal state, as you say, and of Greece.
I stand my daughter’s champion, for I count
it no trifle, the robbery of marriage-right.

EURIPIDES

(d) For GREEK ELEGIACS:

And tyrant Love his breast does ply

With all his winged artillery,
Whilst he, betwixt the flames and waves,
Like Ajax, the mad tempest braves.

ANDREW MARVELL

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