Optional Paper: Verse Composition or Additional Translation

Available to all Mods candidates.

This paper will consist of the following parts: you will be required to do (i) or (ii). (i) Passages for translation into Greek iambics and Latin elegiacs and hexameters, of which you will be required to translate one. (ii) Passages for translation into English from a range of authors chosen as being less easy and less central than those prescribed elsewhere in Mods, and a question on metre; you will be required to attempt either three passages of translation, or two passages and the metre question. The metre question will consist of five passages in Latin and five in Greek: the Greek passages will be drawn from the texts prescribed for translation in the Texts and Contexts paper; the Latin passages will be drawn from the texts prescribed for translation in the Texts and Contexts paper with the addition of Horace, Odes III.

You will be required to scan, on copies provided in the examination, any four passages, and to name the metres, in other words you will not be restricted only to either Latin or Greek passages.