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710 WARNEFORD SCHOLARSHIPS Translate into Greek When Ixion was King of Thessaly there was herd of wild bulls on Mount Pelion which rendered the other moun- If tains also unapproachable for these bulls descending upon the inhabited places used to destroy trees and crops and the tame cattle also Ixion therefore issued proclamation that he would give large sum of money to whoever should exter- minate the bulls Some young men from village called Nephele adopted the design of training horses for riding κβλης Ίππος for theretofore men never knew how to ride on horses but merely used them for chariots So mounting their horses they rode to where the bulls were and attacked the herd with their javelins Whenever they were pursued by the bulls the young men retreated for their horses were the swifter and when the bulls stopped they used to return to the attack In this way they exterminated them and thenceforth called themselves Centaurs because they wounded κατα ντ Ϊν the bulls VIII -algebra Multiply x3 3x2 4x by x2 2x and determine and so that in the product of x2 41 and xs -f ax2 bx the coefficients of and x3 may vanish Prove that cf bf Divide x12 y12 2x6y6 by x3 y3 and resolve the quotient into factors Simplify b2 c2 c2 a2 a2 b2 4- י 20 r2 27 20 273 15 r2 19 Vise1 Vix 6' Find and of 3X3 x2 and xi 2x3 Solve the equations 2x χ δ --- ס