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Old 3rd Aug 2004, 14:26
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BEagle
 
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Mortuus quam mortissime?

I note that, many years ago, I was sitting an Entrance Scholarship for my school; this included 2 Latin papers.

Paper 1 (Composition) included such gems as:
2. (a) Give the nominative singular masculine of all the participles of the following verbs, and then translate the participles into English: facio, credo, patior.

Whilst Paper 2 (Translation) required the translation of a section from Pliny, then 4 lines from Ovid's Fasti - including a requirement to "...scan the first 2 lines, marking quantities, feet and main caesuras"!

That's what some of us had to do at the age of 13! But was it worth it...not sure. I do rather doubt it somehow. But I'm pretty certain that the slouching indolent digi-yoof of today would merely exclaim "Nah - 'snovair. 'S dooin me'ed in" if presented with such a paper.

Not much to do with JagFCs - sorry!
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