🛌 Culture 3

Question 1

What is the Latin term for a wholesale slave dealer?

Answer 1

mango

Question 2

Who was the first emperor to wear a beard?

Answer 2

Hadrian

Question 3

Who oversaw the mixing of wine at a comissātiō?

Answer 3

Magister Bibendi / Rex Bibendi / Arbiter Bibendi

Question 4

Which toga was often worn by triumphant generals?

Answer 4

toga picta

Question 5

Which toga was customarily adorned by boys at the age of 16 during their liberalia?

Answer 5

toga virilis

Question 6

What was the woolen mantle worn to protect against dust or sudden showers?

Answer 6

lacerna

Question 7

What type of toga was worn by those called sordidātī, who were mourning the loss of a loved one?

Answer 7

toga pulla

Question 8

What term classifies garments which are wrapped around the body instead of draped over the shoulders?

Answer 8

amictus

Question 9

What tasty snack would the Romans refer to as malum persicum?

Answer 9

peach

Question 10

What piece of clothing might be considered the ‘uniform’ of a Roman citizen?

Answer 10

toga

Question 11

What is the term for the heavy wool wrap worn outside the toga?

Answer 11

paenula

Question 12

What is the term for the first, watery, dark and bitter flow of olive oil?

Answer 12

amurca

Question 13

What is the term for a dinner party?

Answer 13

convivium

Question 14

What is the malum armeniacum?

Answer 14

apricot

Question 15

What is the Latin term for the footwear which Roman women wore indoors?

Answer 15

soleae

Question 16

What is the Latin term for a coarse wrap, older than the lacerna, and made of wool, leather, or fur?

Answer 16

paenula

Question 17

What is another term for the toga splendēns?

Answer 17

toga candida

Question 18

What is another term for gustus?

Answer 18

antecena

Question 19

What drink was made of water and honey?

Answer 19

mulsa

Question 20

What delicacy was known to the Romans as “glis”?

Answer 20

doormouse

Question 21

What by-product was made by fermenting the intestines and other waste parts of fish?

Answer 21

garum / liquamen

Question 22

Sea urchins, asparagus, sliced eggs, lettuce, and onions are examples of what part of the meal that might be served before the cēna?

Answer 22

gustus

Question 23

What is the Latin term for a pomegranate?

Answer 23

malam Punicum

Question 24

What is the Latin term for a peach?

Answer 24

malum Persicum

Question 25

In terms of meals, what is the meaning of secunda mēnsa?

Answer 25

dessert

Question 26

If you were walking down a Roman street and you saw a man dressed in purple with his face painted red, whom would you most likely be looking at?

Answer 26

triumphant general

Question 27

Ientāculum, prandium, and cēna are all terms for what?

Answer 27

meals

Question 28

Give the Latin terms for the two major categories into which Roman clothing fell depending on whether they were wrapped or pulled over the head.

Answer 28

amictus & indutus (respectively)

Question 29

Due to its great length, a stola was always worn with what accessory?

Answer 29

zona