YALE COLLEGE.
EXAMINATION FOR ADMISSION.
June, 1889.
1. The Patricians and Plebeians: first causes of strife between them. Steps in the political progress of the Plebeians. Censors. Tribunes. Licinian Laws.
2. Greek influences on Roman life: what were they? In what ways and at what times introduced?
3. The Second Punic War: its causes. Hannibal's great march. Battles in Italy. Hasdrubal. Transference of the war. The result. Why did Hannibal fail?
4. Give some account of the members of the First Triumvirate.
5. Arrange in chronological order, with dates: Actium. The Gracchi. First Samnite War. Pharsálus Regulus. Teutones and Cimbri. Numantia. Capture of Rome by the Gauls. Cicero's first oration against Catiline.
1887.
(Time allowed, 30 minutes.)
1. What powers did Octavianus Augustus take to himself? What change did he make in the government of Rome? What changes did Constantine make?
2. The gradual extension of the right of Roman citizenship, the causes of each extension, and dates.
3. What were the possessions of Rome at the beginning of the Christian era? How were they acquired, and when?
4. Explain praetorian guards; provincia; colonia; tribunus plebis; comitia centuriata.
5. Allia, Beneventum, Saguntum, Metaurus, Pharsalia; where were they? what happened there, and when?
1886.
1. Describe the circumstances under which the tribunate was established.
2. When and where did the principal military events in the war between the Caesarians and Pompeians occur?
3. Sketch briefly the career of Pompeius.
4. What persons composed the Second Triumvirate? In what essential points did the Second Triumvirate differ from the First?
5. When and for what reasons was the right of citizenship given to the provinces?
6. What radical changes in the government were made by Diocletian?
June, 1885.
1. Give an account of the Second Punic War (with dates).
2. Explain tribunus plebis, censor, dictator, imperator.
3. How were the provinces governed under the Republic, and how under the Empire?
4. What were the causes of the Social War, and what the results?
5. When and where did the following events take place: the defeat of Varus; the first Roman naval victory; the decisive victory over Pyrrhus; the death of Brutus and Cassius; the conquest of the first Roman province?