$ 10 6 6 3 6 LIST OF PRIZES FOR 1821. For the best Latin Poem consisting of not less than fifty, nor more than eighty Hexameter, or alternate Hexameter and Pentameter verses, will be awarded the first medal, worth For the second best For the best Ode in Sapphic and Adonian measure of not more than thirty two verses. For the second best For the best theme in Latin prose on Dejanira's reproof to Hercules. Coepisti meliùs quàm desinis: ultima primis Ovid. For the best theme in English prose on the same subject. For the best English poem For the best Latin Version of the first Elegy of Turtaeus in the same measure. For the second best For the best recital from memory of Cicero's Oration for the Poet Archias. 4 4 For the best translation of the same Oration into English. For the best translation of Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe by a lad not higher than the third class. For the next best. For the best Declamation in English, Latin or Greek 426+ 2 The above prizes will be given in gold and silver medals, or in books, at the option of the receivers: provided nevertheless that there be no obligation to award a prize to a performance undeserving of it, merely because there is no other of the kind. The exercises must be presented for examination by the 15th of June 1821. |