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2. Translate into English:

Beip mo bennacht, bí dom péir,
Na dena féin frithbeirt frind;
Da tuca dún tend fri tend
Is depb lem dafaethais lind.
Na cocthaig pa Com na clepp,
Na cuir tress for slicht do sen,
Na-patpuibther im paind epích
Immap bith Capppe Nia Fep.

Cath Ruis na Rig, pp. 2, 54.

3. Translate into English :

a Deirdriu manderamas,
Diampa coemainech cloth-ban,
Cepppaitit Ulaid sed pe
A ingen find Fheilimche.
Cio cain lib in laechpad laind
Cengtha in Emain iap thoičim
Cilliu do chingdis ó taig

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Trí meic adlaechda Uisnig.

4. Translate into English:

Ised 00 lotar japum co hailill ocus co Meidb ar po feadatar isi lanamain fo do soelsat. Ocup ní bu cúl repce do Ultaib. Tricha cét pobe lín na loingsi co cend sé mbliadan déc. Ní po an gol na epith leo i n-Ultaib, acht gol ocus crith leo cech n-én aiżchi. bliadain disi tra i pail Conchobaip; ocup in bliadain ní tib gen gaire ocus ní doid a saith do bíud na collad, ocus ní tuasgaib a cend dia glúin. In tan do berdis na haipfitig is and asbered si in peigni-sea sip.- Uisnech. 5. Translate into English:

Ní taibre grád for nech causâ a pectha nó a chaingníma; ar biit alaili and sofinnatar a pecthe resíu docói grád forsu, alaili ip iapum pofinnatas; beris dano fri laa brátha.

Cia pudchualatar ilbélpe, ocup ce nuslabratar nipat ferr de; is follus didiu nan-máar bríg labrad lbélpe.-Glosses of Windisch's Gram.

6. Translate into English

Amal dotéit side do gabáil báiguil in tan nádnacastar ocus nád-forchluinter is amlid dosega Día do bráth in tain nád-tomnibther a thichtu. Fopcainrom hic servos obedire, ap na erbapat domini soptar iplithi ap moge dúun períu tired hipers, roptar aniplithi iarum; ní áil trá insin do epirt, ol sesom, ar ní do forcetul anirlatad dodechuid.—Ibid.

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7. Retranslate into the language of the old Glosses: I am not ashamed to preach the Gospel. Just is the reward of his labour to every one. It is through Him that our sins have been forgiven to us. Give thanks to God for every good that He does to you.

UNPRESCRIBED PASSAGES.

8. Translate into English:

Níl File Eireannaċ ar biċ ann d'ar cumao piaṁ feartlaoi as deise ná as binne ná an feartlaoi do scríob Donnčao puaò Mac Conmapa d'a caraid Tadz Gaebealac Ó Súilliubáin.

9. Translate into English:

Do fubalpainn an Mhumain leat

Ip bapp gaċ cnuic,

Map fúil 's go b-pagainn pún uait
Is cairdeas suilt;

A ¿paob cúmpa a dubairt liom

Go raib gráb agat dom,

A's tu plús na m-ban múinte,
Mo póir geal dub.

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2. Point out and explain any textual difficulties presented Note any emendations sugby the preceding passages. gested. Give in full the K'thibh and the Q'ri of the words marked by an asterisk.

3. How are the following expressions pointed in the Book

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6. How may nouns in Hebrew be determinate? Specify some cases in which the article is used in Hebrew where it would not be employed in English. What nouns in Hebrew never receive the article?

7. What may the Infinitive Construct with the preposition

.express ? Illustrate each case ל

8. Classify some of the more important methods of marking emphasis in Hebrew, and illustrate.

9. In what ways may the protasis of a conditional sentence be introduced? Give the exact force of each.

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