Calendar: 1860-1861 Page 506

WARNEFORD SCHOLARSHIPS 507 qui put empecher les injustices faites un plebeien Mais par une maladie eternelle des hommes les plebeiens qui avaient obtenu des tribuns pour se def'endre s'en servirent pour attaquer ils enlevferent peu peu toutes les prerogatives des patriciens cela produisit des contestations continuelles Le peuple etait soutenu ou plutot anime par ses tribuns et les patriciens etaient defendus par le senat qtii etait presque tout compose de patri- ciens qui etait plus porte pour les maximes anciennes et qui craignait que la populace n'elevat la tyrannie quelque tribun State briefly in French what were the privileges of the patricians referred to in the above extract Name the two great causes to which Montesquieu chiefly ascribes the decline of Rome Why is the participle past obtenu invariable whilst defendus is plural In the last sentence nelevdt means should raise why is the subjunctive mood used here and why the negative η Translate into French Even the Latin was giving way to younger rival France united at that time almost every species of ascendancy Her military glory was at the height She had vanquished mighty coalitions She bad dictated treaties She had subjugated great cities and provinces She had forced the Castilian pride to yield her the precedence She had summoned Italian princes to prostrate themselves at her footstool Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding from duel to minuet She determined how gentleman's coat must be cut how long his peruke must be whether his heels must be high or low and whether the lace on his hat must be broad or narrow In litera- ture she gave law to the world The fame of her great writers filled Europe No other country could produce tragic poet equal to Racine comic poet equal to Moliere trifler so agreeable as La Fontaine rhetorician so skilful as Bossuet The literary glory of Italy and of Spain had set that of Germany had not yet dawned The genius therefore of the eminent men who adorned Paris shone forth with splendour which was set off to full advantage by contrast France indeed had at that