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Eagerly awaiting results from this year’s Spivey Essay Prize

On Monday, 40 Sixth Form pupils sat the annual Spivey Essay Prize Paper.聽This competition is run under the aegis of the Classics Department but is open to all Sixth Form pupils. It is named in honour of Old 51吃瓜ian, Dr Nigel Spivey, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

This year, those taking part, chose to write on one of these three quotations –

• 蟿峥喯� 纬峤跋� 峒�蟻蔚蟿峥喯� 蟿峤� 魏伪位峤� 蟺蟻维蟿蟿蔚喂谓 渭峋段晃晃课� 峒� 蟿峤� 伪峒跋兿囅佱桨 渭峤� 蟺蟻维蟿蟿蔚喂谓.
  Virtue is displayed more in performing noble acts than in avoiding evil ones.

聽聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Aristotle,聽Nic Ethics聽IV.1.7

• Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.聽
  It was fear first created gods in the world.

聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Petronius, 贵谤补驳尘别苍迟听XXVII

• 蟽蟿峤毕兾瓜� 纬峤跋� 峒斘枷喯呂晃肯� 蟺慰位峤澄嘉肯� 峤佄嘉肯喯佄课结匠慰谓蟿慰蟼 蟿慰蟽慰峤幌勧砍 魏峤蔽何刮课� 峒愊兿勧蕉 峤呄冡砍 蟺峤刮晃滴嘉肯� 蔚峒跋佱降谓畏蟼.

聽 聽 For civil strife is as much worse than united war as war is worse than peace.聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽

聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Herodotus, 贬颈蝉迟辞谤颈别蝉听VIII.3

My thanks go to Dr Scott and Mr Owen for their help in compiling the paper.

We now await with bated breath the results鈥�