Level 4 Flashcards by Eve O

The shortest poem of Catullus is only two lines long and begins Odi et amo.
Bonus: The whole poem reads: Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?/ Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. What are the principal parts and meaning of the verb from which fieri is derived?

“I HATE AND I LOVE”

FIO, FIERI, FACTUS SUM - “BE MADE, BECOME, HAPPEN”

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In Book II of Vergil’s Aeneid, Venus explains to Aeneas : Iam summas arces Tritonia, respice, Pallas/ insedit. Who is this Tritonia Pallas?
Bonus: Venus also tells: Neptunus muros magnoque emota tridenti/ fundamenta quatit. What power of Neptune is being shown?

ATHENA/MINERVA

EARTHQUAKES

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On his deathbed, Vergil ordered the unfinished Aeneid to be destroyed, but, instead, Augustus ordered what two individuals to polish and publish it?
Bonus: What fourth century AD Latin grammarian published a vaulable commentary on the works of Vergil?

VARIUS AND TUCCA

DONATUS

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What nymph on Mt. Ida foretold to Paris that he would leave her, abduct Helen, and destroy Troy?
Bonus: By what other name was Paris known?

OENONE

ALEXANDER or ALEXANDROS

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Identify the common bond: suavium, basium, osculum.
Bonus: Identify the kissers and the kissed in the following lines: Tum pavidae tectis matres ingentibus errant,/ amplexaeque tenent postes atque oscula figunt.

WORDS FOR A KISS

TROJAN WOMEN WERE KISSING COLUMNS

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Distinguish between ludi and munera.

Bonus: The munera gladiatorum seem to have originated from what civilization?

LUDI WERE GAMES OR SHOWS AND MUNERA WERE FUNERAL OFFERINGS

ETRUSCAN

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Who am I? I killed Pallas, the beloved son of Evander. My sister Juturna tried to save me and convince me to stop fighting, but I refused. I fought and was killed by Aeneas over the hand of Lavinia in marriage.
Bonus: Over what group was Turnus the king?

TURNUS

RUTULIANS

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Who was the first Christian emperor of Rome?
Bonus: After defeating Eugenius in the Battle of Aquileia in AD 394, what emperor secured the abolishment of pagan worship and became known as “The Destroyer of Paganism”?

CONSTANTINE (THE GREAT)

THEODOSIUS (THE GREAT or THE FIRST)

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What is the difference in meaning between gens and genus?

Bonus: What about mors and mos?

GENS - “CLAN, NATION” and GENUS - “RACE, KIND”

MORS - “DEATH” and MOS - “CUSTOM”

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Identify the common bond: Epidaurus, Delos, Delphi.

Bonus: Identify: Albunea, Almathea, Deiphobe.

ORACLES

SIBYLS

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What deity did Juno send to release Dido’s spirit?

Bonus: What did Iris do to release Dido’s spirit

IRIS

CUT A LOCK OF HER HAIR

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When a crack opened in the Roman Forum in 362 BC, an oracle said that Rome had to throw its most precious resource into it. Who leapt into the abyss to save Rome?
Bonus: Speaking of pits, what was the name of the pit dug by Romulus into which were thrown the first fruits and earth from each of the countries of his followers?

METTIUS CURTIUS

MUNDUS

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Literally speaking, what does it mean “to decimate”?

Bonus: Literally speaking, what does it mean “to obliterate”

TO REDUCE BY ONE-TENTH OF ORIGINAL SIZE

TO FORGET or CAUSE TO FORGET

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What is the Latin derived term in English which means “the most excellent example” or “the perfect embodiment”? Hint: The Latin is literally translated “the fifth element” or “the fifth essence”.
Bonus: Besides the “fifth element” which moved the objects in the heavens, what were the four basic elements which were identified by Greek philosophers?

QUINTESSENCE

AIR, EARTH, FIRE, WATER

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Some scholars have identified Catullus’ Lesbia as Clodia, the sister of what thorn in Cicero’s side?
Bonus: Who was Clodius’ husband at the time of Catullus’ affair?

PUBLIUS CLODIUS PULCHER

QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS CELER

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In what province did Catullus serve under Memmius?

Bonus: Why was Catullus angry with Memmius when he returned to Italy?

BITHYNIA

HE HAD NOT BEEN PAID VERY MUCH

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We hope that all of you will enjoy this competition. In that sentence the verb spero would normally be followed by what kind of construction?
Bonus: Please translate that sentence.

INDIRECT SPEECH

SPERAMUS (OMNES) VOS GAVISURUOS (ESSE) HOC CERTAMINE

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Distinguish between impero and impeto.

Bonus: Distinguish between latro and latro

COMMAND and ATTACK

BANDIT and TO BARK

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What sad news did Antilochus bring to Achilles?

Bonus: Who was the father of Antilochus?

THE DEATH OF PATROCLUS

NESTOR

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What was the mark of censure called in ancient Rome, placed next to a citizen’s name on the census lists by the censors?
Bonus: If you were a senator, the nota meant of course that you were removed from the Senate. But what did it mean if you were a private citizen?

NOTA

REMOVAL FROM YOUR TRIBE AND LOSS OF VOTING PRIVILEGES

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Lucius wants to become famous, so he joins one of the Circus factions, buys a biga and enters the next race. What exactly is a biga?
Bonus: Lucius has to finish how many laps in the Circus Maximus to complete the race?

TWO-HORSE CHARIOT

SEVEN

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What bad emperor was slanderously accused of having sexual relations with his three sisters?
Bonus: What great-grandmother of Caligula referred to him as “Ulysses in petticoats”?

CALIGULA

LIVIA

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“I saw you all walking down the hall.” Translate the participle in that sentence.
Bonus: Now translate the verb in the indirect speech clause of this sentence: “I knew that you would be walking down the hall”.

AMBULANTES

AMBULATUROS (ESSE)`]

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How do you translate this Latin idiom: ubinam gentium?

Bonus: How would you say “nowhere in the world”?

WHERE IN THE WORLD

NUMQUAM GENTIUM

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What ablative is seen in Vergil's phrase natus dea? | Bonus: With that ablative usage, say in Latin. Lucius was born to Caesar's daughter.

ABLATIVE OF ORIGIN | LUCIUS FILIA CAESARIS NATUS EST

The Appian Way was built in the late 4th cent. B.C. during a series of wars against what great confederation of tribes in central Italy? Bonus: The Via Appia originally was designed to secure communications with Campania, the area around the Bay of Naples, and ran to what city located in the Campanian plain, often referred to at the time as the "second city of Italy"?

THE SAMNITES | CAPUA

Sagittae aureae et plumbeae were contained in the pharetra of what deus amoris? Bonus: Quo nomine Cupido Graece notus est?

CUPID | EROS

What period of history does the 1st book of Livy cover? | Bonus: Livy became the greatest living historian of Rome and tutored what later emperor of Rome?

FALL OF TROY- END OF MONARCHY | CLAUDIUS

Suavium et basium verba sunt quae uno verbo anglice significare possunt. Quod verbum est? Bonus: If you ended your Latin love letter with the phrase complexus basiaque, what would you be writing?

KISS | HUGS AND KISSES

What son of Autonoe and Aristaeus, and student of the centaur Chiron, was changed into a stag by Artemis? Bonus: What crime had he committed?

ACTAEON | STUMBLING UPON ARTEMIS WHILE SHE WAS BATHING

What is the adverbial form of the adjective humanus? | Bonus: What two forms of adverbs exist for the adjective miser?

HUMANITER/HUMANE | MISERE, MISERITER

Distinguish in meaning between fauces and facies. | Bonus: Distinguish in meaning between solum and solium.

THROAT and FACE | GROUND and THRONE

The sentence: Non Cinnae, non Sullae longa dominatio is an example of what kind of rhetorical figure? Bonus: What figure of speech (other than ellipsis) is in this sentence: Longa tibi exsilia et vastum maris aequor arandum.

ELLIPSIS | ZEUGMA

Tiberius spend the years 12-9 B.C. putting down a great rebellion, celebrating a triumph for his effort. Over what people did he triumph in 9 B.C.? Bonus: Tiberius had a younger brother, with whom he also campaigned, until this brother died on the German frontier in 9 B.C. What was his name?

THE PANNONIANS | DRUSUS

What do the following having in common: far, flammeum, thalamus, nupta? Bonus: Thalamus is the name of the marriage bed. But it had another name as well. What was it?

RELATED TO A WEDDING | LECTUS GENIALIS

What region of Greece would you be in if Macedonia was to the north, Epirus to the west, and Aetolia to the south? Bonus: What great mountain, famous to the Greeks and known to all of you, lies between Thessaly and Macedonia?

THESSALY | MT. OLYMPUS

The Lex Hortensia of 287 B.C. Was marked the final stage of the struggle between the plebians and patricians for political and social equality. What did this law do? Bonus: The Lex Poetilia of 326 B.C. was also a landmark in Roman law and a milestone in the plebeians' struggle to free themselves from the domination of the patricians. What did the Lex Poetilia' do?

IT MADE LAWS PASSED BY THE PLEBEIANS BINDING ON THE ENTIRE ROMAN PEOPLE PROHIBITED IMPRISONMENT OF ROMAN CITIZENS FOR DEBT

Who am I? I was the daughter of Cadmus. Zeus was in love with me and told me that anything I asked of him, he would do. Foolishly, I told him that I wanted to see him in all his splendor. I didn't survive the experience. Bonus: My child, Dionysus, was saved by this god, who sewed him into Zeus' thigh until he was ready to be born.

SEMELE | HERMES

If we wanted to say in Latin "I ran in order that no one might catch me" we would use ne quis, a negative ut clause of purpose. But what would we use if we wanted to express in this sentence a negative ut clause of result? Bonus: Again, if we wanted to say in Latin "I was mean to them in order that they would never return" we would use ne umquam to express that negative clause of purpose. How about a negative result?

UT NEMO/NULLUS | UT NUMQUAM

We know about the major priesthoods of Rome: the pontifices, the augures, and the like. But Rome had during the republic a number of secondary religious groups charged with performing specific rituals. Name three of these groups.

FETIALES, SALII, LUPERCI, FRATRES ARVALES

A palladium was a miraculous guardian statue and almost every city had one. Who was depicted by the palladium of Troy, which they say had fallen from the sky and which safeguarded the city? Bonus: What two stories are told about the fate of Troy's palladium?

ATHENA | IT WAS CARRIED BY AENEAS TO ITALY and IT WAS STOLEN BY THE GREEKS

Translate this sentence: "Let's live in the country" | Bonus: Now make the sentence negative

VIVAMUS RURI | NE VIVAMUS RURI

Who am I? Zeus formed me from a cloud in order to trick Ixion, who wished to seduce Hera. After accomplishing that purpose, I became the wife of Athamus and had two children, Phrixus and Helle. Bonus: What creatures were the product of the union of Nephele and Ixion?

NEPHELE | THE CENTAURS

Distinguish in meaning between fistula and fibula. | Bonus: Now distinguish between vertex and vortex.

REED PIPE and BROOCH | PEAK and WHIRLPOOL

What am I? I was one of the more celebrated landmarks of ancient Rome and still stand today. I was commissioned by the Senate in 13 B.C. following Augustus' victories in Spain and consecrated on the Campus Martius in 9 B.C. I'm rectangular in shape and my south side is decorated with sculptures of Augustus and the imperial family. Bonus: That procession was led by two lictors, followed by Augustus between two consuls; then four Flaminian priests and the Flaminian lictor; and then Agrippa and his wife Julia. Between Agrippa and Julia is a young child, their son. What was his name?

THE ARA PACIS (ALTER OF PEACE) | GAIUS (IULIUS CAESAR)

Claudia, although born of a patrician family, is unfortunately not eligible to become a Vestal Virgin. What are two of the reasons that might disqualify her? Bonus:We know that the Vestal Virgins tended the undying fire of Rome, but what was their other main duty?

OLDER THAN 10, YOUNGER THAN 6, NOT A VIRGIN, HER MOTHER AND FATHER ARE DEAD, HAS A SPEECH OR BODILY DEFECT, HER SISTER HAS ALREADY BEEN CHOSEN AS A VESTAL VIRGIN TO PREPARE THE GRAIN FOR PUBLIC SACRIFICES

What epic poet of the empire, who wrote of the Civil War, was forced by Nero to commit suicide for his part in the Pisonian conspiracy of 65 A.D.? Bonus: His work, an epic in 10 books covering the years 49-48 B.C., was known as de bello civili. But by what other name was it known in the ancient world?

LUCAN | PHARSALIA

Catullus opens one of his poems with "Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire / et quod uides perisse perditum ducas." What advice is Catullus giving himself? Bonus: What is the basic meter of these lines?

TO STOP PLAYING THE FOOL AND TO CONSIDER WHAT HE SEES TO BE LOST AS LOST (LIMPING) IAMBIC

Paris, the son of Priam and Hecuba, had a lousy childhood. When his father Priam was warned by a soothsayer that his unborn son would be the destruction of Troy, what did Priam do? Bonus: The king's shepherd did as he was commanded, but when he returned to Mt. Ida five days later he found Paris still alive, being suckled by a wild animal. What kind of animal was that?

ORDERED THE INFANT TO BE EXPOSED ON MT. IDA | A WILD BEAR

Distinguish between appello, -are and appello, -ere | Bonus: Give me the third principal parts of both those verbs.

TO NAME and TO DRIVE/ STEER | APPELAVI, APPULI

Although the economic history of Rome is very murky to, 269 B.C. is generally regarded as the date the Romans first did what? Bonus: Prior to the introduction of coinage, what did the Romans typically use for exchange?

``` COINED THEIR OWN MONEY BRONZE BARS (AES SIGNATUM) ```

A participle, of course, is a verbal adjective. But give me the principal parts and meaning of the Latin verb from which our word "participle" derives. Bonus: Using a participle, say in Latin "Having delayed a little while, the soldiers left camp".

PARTIOR, -IRI, ITUS SUM and TO SHARE | PAULUM MORATI, MILITES E CASTRIS EXCESSERUNT

What did Philoctetes receive as a reward for lighting Hercules' funeral pyre? Bonus: Philoctetes sailed with the Greeks to Troy, but was marooned at Lemnos due to a rancid wound he had recieved from a snake bite. Later, when the Greeks begged him to rejoin them, he refused until Hercules, now a god, appeared and promised that he would be healed if he joined the Greeks and that with his arrows he would kill what Trojan?

HERCULES' BOW AND ARROW | PARIS

What right did Roman citizens have by virture of the ius honorum? Bonus: What right did they have by virtue of the ius imaginis?

THE RIGHT TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE | THE RIGHT TO PLACE THE DEATH MASKS OF THEIR ANCESTORS IN THEIR ATRIA AND CARRY THEM IN FUNERALS

What two major sources did Livy use for his account of the Hannibalic War? Bonus: It looks like Livy originally meant only to cover the history of Rome down to 43 B.C., when the liberty of the Roman people ended with the death of Cicero. But Livy lived on and so kept writing. With the events of what year did he finally finish his work?

FABIUS PICTOR AND POLYBIUS | 9 BC

Distinguish faveo and foveo. | Bonus: Distinguish malus and malus (long -a).

TO FAVOR and TO FOSTER/CHERISH | EVIL/BAD and MAST OF A SHIP

In Book IV of the Aeneid what does Vergil describe as rushing through the cities of Africa, a malum qua non aliud velocius ullum / mobilitate viget, viresque adquirit eundo, a monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui, quot sunt corpore plumae / tot vigiles oculi subter? Bonus: Please explain the grammar of eundo in that last line (repeat if necessary).

RUMOR | GERUND, ABLATIVE OF MEANS

Who am I? I was tribune in 57 B.C. and worked for Cicero's recall from exile. During the 50's I led a faction in the city riots while I rose through the curus honorum. In 52 B.C. I removed my chief enemy, but failed in my bid to become consul. I was brought to trial and, though Cicero defended, was convicted and went into exile at Massilia. Bonus: Milo did not die in Massilia. Describe the circumstances of his death.

(T. ANNIUS) MILO | HE RETURNED TO ITALY DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND WAS KILLED ATTEMPTING REVOLUTION

The "Proverbs of Seneca," an apocryphal collection from the Middle Ages, is full of good advice. Please translate this one: Bonum est non laudari, sed esse laudabilem. Bonus: Here's another: Bonis nocet qui malis parcit.

IT IS GOOD NOT TO BE PRAISED BUT TO BE PRAISEWORTHY | HE HARMS THE GOOD WHO SPARES THE EVIL

Many excavations of republican and imperial houses reveal cultic meeting places of an eastern god, some 35 known from Rome itself. Typically these meeting places had an altar on a young man was depicted plunging a dagger into the flank of a bull. Who was this young man, the center of the cult worship? Bonus: Mithraism was only one of the eastern religions that spread throughout the Roman Empire. What rival cult was centered around an Egyptian goddess, whose name means "mistress of the house of life"?

MITHRAS | ISIS

Translate and give me the use of the subjunctive in this sentence: Scio nonnullos esse qui mihi nocere temptaverint. Bonus: Translate and give me the use of the subjunctive in this sentence: Nemo satis scit quid speret aut timeat

I KNOW THAT SOME TRIED TO HARM ME AND SUBJUNCTIVE IN ORDINATE CLAUSE WITHIN INDIRECT SPEECH NO ONE SUFFICIENTLY KNOWS WHAT HE SHOULD HOPE OR FEAR AND SUBJUNCTIVE OF INDIRECT QUESTION

For whom were these verses written: Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem. / Non enim rumores ponebat ante salutem? Bonus: Who wrote these lines?

``` FABIUS MAXIMUS (CUNCTATOR) ENNIUS ```

Who am I? I was born a girl, but after being raped by Poseiden, he offered to grant me any wish. I wished to become a man and was granted that wish. Bonus:What other boon did Poseiden grant me?

CAENIS OR CAENEUS | INVULNERABILITY

Tiberius did not have a happy family. His sons died before they could suceed him, victims of what malicious praetorian prefect? Bonus: Sejanus wished to marry into the imperial family and did succeed in seducing what sister of Claudius and wife of Tiberius' son Drusus?

SEJANUS | LIVILLA

In how many declensions are both feminine and masculine nouns found? Bonus: What declensions have no neuter nouns?

ALL FIVE | FIRST AND FIFTH

Bacchus is not really the Roman name for Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. Bacchus, in fact, is simply another Greek name for Dionysus. With what purely Roman god was he associated? Bonus: Give me the name for this god's main festival and the month in which it occurs.

LIBER | LIBERALIA, MARCH

You're in the countryside, looking at a beautiful landscape. You say to your friend, Locus est amoenius. Now change that to the plural. Bonus: Now distinguish between the plural nominatives loca and loci.

LOCA SUNT AMOENIA | LOCA REFERS TO PLACES and LOCI REFERS TO PASSAGES IN A BOOK

What marshes, south of Rome along the coast, remained the haunt of highwaymen and robbers until well into the Empire? Bonus: What emperor of the 2nd century attempted in vain to have the Pomptine Marshes drained?

POMPTINE MARSHES | TRAJAN

Why people have double names in the ancient is a real puzzle. But, in any case, what were the names by which the son of Achilles was known? Bonus: What common circumstance did Neoptolemus share with Philoctetes?

PYRRHUS AND NEOPTOLEMUS | THE PROPHECY THAT TROY WOULD NOT FALL UNTIL NEOPTOLEMUS FOUGHT ON THE GREEK SIDE

Sometimes a Roman general was denied a triumph by the Senate and held one anyway, paid for out of his own pocket. Where were such triumphs usually held? Bonus: Sometimes a general was awarded a lesser form of triumph, in which he entered Rome not in a chariot but on horseback. What was this called?

ON THE ALBAN MOUNT | OVATION (OVATIO)

Welcome to the Upper Level Finals of the Ad Fontes Certamen. Participles yet again. We all know that the dative of agent is regularly used with the gerundie or the Future Passive Periphrastic construction. But with what participle is the dative of agent commonly seen? Bonus 1: Keeping that in mind, translate the following sentence, which might have come from the mouth of a tyrant or king: Mihi deliberatum et constitutum est. Bonus 2: In poetry, the use of the dative of agent was even more widely used, appearing commonly with what type of verb?

PERFECT PASSIVE PARTICIPLE IT HAS BEEN DECIDED AND DELIBERATED BY ME PASSIVE VERBS

When the Gauls attacked Rome in 390 B.C., who led the Roman garrison in repelling the attack on the citadel? Bonus 1: Who was appointed dictator to drive the Gauls out of Rome? Bonus 2: With what title was Camillus rewarded for this service to Rome?

M. MANLIUS CAPITOLINUS CAMILLUS THE SECOND FOUNDER OF ROME

Adrastus, Polynices, Tydeus, Capaneus, Parthenopaeus, Mecisteus, and Amphiaraus are all part of what group? Bonus 1: What Greek playwright immortalized this group by a play of the same name? Bonus 2: What poet of the Silver Age of Latin recounted the same story in his epic Thebaid?

THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES AESCHYLUS STATIUS

A comitia of course is an assembly of the Roman people, but what was the name of the place where the comitia normally met? Bonus 1: Tell me the names of the three comitia under the Republic. Bonus 2: Which of these had the duty of formally conferring imperium by means of a lex de imperio on the magistrates and later on the emperors?

COMITIUM COMITIA CURIATA, CENTURIATA, TRIBUTA COMITIA CURIATA

Translate this verse and tell me it's author: Exegi monumentum aere perennius. Bonus 1: In what work did Horace say this line? Bonus 2: In that same poem, what does Horace consider his greatest poetic achievement to be?

I HAVE BUILT A MONUMENT MORE LASTING THAN BRONZE and HORACE THE ODES TO HAVE ADAPTED GREEK METER INTO LATIN POETRY

The perfect tense tetuli makes its appearance in Plautus, but how would Cicero have written it? Bonus 1: If tetuli had survived it would have made fero what type of verb? Bonus 2: Petronius is famous for odd verb forms. How would Cicero have written his fellitus sum?

TULI A REDUPLICATIVE FALSUS SUM

The games that Aeneas held in Sicily were in honor of whom? Bonus 1: In which book of the Aeneid does these games occur? Bonus 2: Who was the Trojan king of Eryx who entertained Aeneas and his followers during their stay in Sicily?

ANCHISES 5 ACESTES

Who was the worshiper of the deus Sol invictus, an odd emperor of Rome who did himself no good with the conservative Roman establishment by instituting orgiastic ceremonies of his Syrian cult? Bonus 1: Elagabalus was actually related to the Severan dynasty. His mother Iulia Bassiana was niece to what powerful woman, the wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Caracalla and Geta? Bonus 2: When dynasties changed in Rome, new emperors often adopted the name of some predecessor by spurious adoption. Elagabalus was a Varius by birth, a Severan by maternal blood, but what was the gens name he adopted (as Caracalla had done before him) in his official nomenclature?

ELAGABUS IULIA DOMNA AURELIUS

A few unfortunates in the ancient world were marked out for special punishment in the Underworld. What was the crime and punishment of Ixion? Bonus: 1: How was Ixion tricked? Bonus 2: Ixion had once been the proud king of what region of Greece?

HE TRIED TO SEDUCE HERA and WAS TIED TO A TURNING WHEEL FOR ETERNITY ZEUS FORMED A CLOUD IN HERA'S LIKENESS THESSALY

Tombstone Latin is sometimes grim. Translate this inscription found on a Roman gravestone near a road: Viator, viator! Quod tu es, ego fui; quod nunc sum, et tu eris. Bonus 1: This fellow must have a delightful soul with a keen sense of humor. Translate his tomb inscripton: Vixi quem ad modum volui; quare mortuus sum, nescio. Bonus 2: This inscription, a common one, may have a Christian meaning: Ego cum eo eo eo.

TRAVELLER, TRAVELLER! WHAT YOU ARE, I WAS; WHAT I AM NOW, YOU ALSO WILL BE I LIVED HOW I WANTED, WHY I AM DEAD NOW, I DO NOT KNOW I AM GOING THERE WITH HIM

Who am I? I was a disciple of Plato and brought my master to Syracuse in 367. I was banished later by the tyrant of Syracuse, but then returned in 357, captured Syracuse and ruled there off and on until my assassination in 357. You all know so much about me because Plutarch wrote my biography. Bonus 1: Which Dionysius was this, the First or Second? Bonus 2: In his parallel lives, Plutarch matched this man with this historical figure, a man who also fought against tranny and created chaos in his homeland.

DION FIRST BRUTUS

What author established hexameter as the meter for Roman poetry? Bonus 1: Well, we don't have much poetry of Lucilius, but we have a number of Satires of Juvenal? In fact, how many have come down to us? Bonus 2: One of these Satires is a famous tirade against women. Which one was it?

LUCILIUS 16 SATIRE VI

If you saw a bottle that said q.i.d., you might be able to give me the Latin of abbreviation and tell me what it means. Bonus 1: What kind of number is quater? Bonus 2: Now give me the distributive of this number.

QUATER IN DIE and 4 TIMES A DAY NUMERICAL ADVERB QUATERNI

The earliest assembly at Rome was called the comitia curiata, instituted under the kings. It eventually lost its legislative and electoral functions to the comitia centuriata, but apart from passing the lex de imperio what function did it retain until late in the Empire? Bonus 1: What official probably presided over the meetings of the comitia curiata in the late Republic? Bonus 2: What momentous change was made concerning electoral assemblies during the reign of Tiberius?

THE VALIDATION OF WILLS/CONFIRMATION OF PRIESTS/CONFIRMATION OF ADOPTIONS THE PONTIFEX MAXIMUS THE ELECTION OF MAGISTRATES WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE SENATE

Who was the king of Thebes, talented at the lyre? Bonus 1: Who gave Amphion his lyre? Bonus 2: What task did Amphion accomplish with the lyre?

AMPHION HERMES HE PUT THE STONES OF THE CITY WALLS IN PLACE

Being completely alliterative say in Latin "I will dedicate the teeth of the dragons, gifts to the gods". Bonus 1: Say alliteratively: "Decius slept sweetly at home". Bonus 2: That was easy. But now say alliteratively: "Rabarius again looks back at the royal pyre".

DICABO DENTES DRACONUM DONA DEIS DECIUS DULCITER DORMIT DORMI RABIRIUS RURSUS RESPEXIT ROGUM REGIUM

What are the modern names of these ancient cities? Watch out - it starts easy, but gets harder! Londinium, Lugdunum, Augusta Treverorum. Bonus 1: How about these? Antium and Masillia. Bonus 2: Now what were these modern cities called by the Romans: Rhodes and Perugia?

LONDON, LYONS, TRIER ANZIO and MARSEILLE RHODOS and PERUSIA

What general lost his command by the lex Manilia? Bonus: Lucullus had invaded Armenia in pursuit of Mithridates and his army revolted and refused to march further. Who was the ringleader of this revolt? Bonus: At what new capital of Armenia being founded by Tigranes did this revolt occur?

LUCULLUS P. CLODIUS PULCHER TIGRANOCERTA

What is a noun called, such as domus, which varies between declensions? Bonus 1: How about a noun that varies in gender, like dies? Bonus 2: Some nouns are found in only one case. What are these nouns called?

HETEROCLITE HETEROGENOUS MONOPTOTES

When recognized, perform the following command: Sta et primam partem fabulae trium ursorum anglice narra mihi. Bonus: Now perform this command: State uno pede et cantate modo gallinae.

STAND AND SAY IN ENGLISH THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS STAND ON ONE FOOT AND SING LIKE A CHICKEN

Listen to the following passage. I will read it twice. Then answer the question concerning that passage. Coriolänus malus cïvis erat sed bonus mïles. Römänï nüllum frümentum habëbant et timëbant magnam famem. Iam rëx in Siciliä Römänïs multum frümentum dederat sed Coriolänus frümentum pauperibus nön dabat. Itaque pauperës Coriolänum ex urbe exturbävërunt. Why was Coriolanus driven from Rome? Bonus: From where had that grain come?

BECAUSE HE DID NOT SHARE THE GRAIN WITH THE POOR | FROM THE KING IN SICILY

Welcome to the Upper Level Finals of the Ad Fontes Certamen. Let's start with a little geography. In what region would you find the cities Utica, Cirta, and Zama? Bonus 1: Where would you find the cities Ilerda, Gades, and Corduba? Bonus 2: Where would you find the cities Pergamum, Smyrna, and Ephesus?

AFRICA SPAIN ASIA MINOR

With what great confederation of tribes did Rome fight a long series of war between 340 and 285 B.C. resulting in their conquest of the moutainous interior of Italy? Bonus 1: The Romans were not always successful. What was the name of the area where a Roman army was surrounded by the Samnites in 323 B.C. and forced to surrender? Bonus 2: When the Samnites wars were over, it wasn't long before the Romans faced a more dangerous antagonist in Southern Italy, who always defeated them but could never win the decisive victory. Who was he?

SAMNITES THE CAUDINE FOLKS PYRRHUS

Participles yet again. Listen carefully to this sentence: Ab oppido discessuri videmus hostes advenientes. What are the two tenses of the participles in that sentence? Bonus 1: Please translate that sentence. Bonus 2: Now make everything singular in that sentence.

FUTURE AND PRESENT WE, ABOUT TO LEAVE THE TOWN, SAW THE ENEMY ARRIVING AB OPPIDO DISCESSURUS, VIDEO HOSTIS ADVENIENTEM

Ancient warships weren't much for fighting. What was their standard weapon for sinking an enemy's ship? Bonus 1: The Romans improved on this by use of a corvus. What kind of device was this? Bonus 2: Much later the Romans developed a frightening weapon to defend Constantinople against the Arabs, a secret weapon that burned on water and could not be extinguished. What was it called?

RAM BOARDING PLANK GREEK FIRE

Being completely alliterative, say in Latin "Kings ruled at Rome". Bonus 1: Now the same for "The boys fought beautiful pigs". Bonus 2: Now the same for "Why does Crassus kill the swift stag".

REGES ROMAE REXERUNT PUERI PULCHROS PORCOS PUGNAVERUNT CUR CRASSUS CELEREM CERVUM CAEDIT

What is the central event of Book VI of the Aeneid? Bonus 1: What is the central event of Book V? Bonus 2: What is the central event of Book IV?

AENEAS' JOURNEY TO THE UNDERWORLD GAMES IN HONOR OF ANCHISES THE ROMANCE OF AENEAS AND DIDO, THE DEATH OF DIDO

It was certainly tragic, but had the virtue of being quick and often painless. By what means did two great enemies of Rome, Hannibal and Cleopatra, end their lives? Bonus 1: Hannibal was handy with snakes, too. By what means did he defeat the Roman fleet off Asia Minor in 190 B.C.? Bonus 2: Some of Rome's greatest enemies were not killed in battle, but captured and taken to Rome for execution. Who was the leader of the Gallic revolt of 52-51 who suffered this fate?

POISON JARS FULL OF VIPERS WERE CATAPULTED ONTO THE ROMAN SHIPS VERCINGETORIX

Women never fared well after the fall of a city. To whom was Cassandra given as a concubine? Bonus 1: To whom was Hecuba given as a slave? Bonus 2: To whom was Andromache given?

AGAMEMNON ODYSSEUS NEOPTOLEMUS (PYRRHUS)

Here's a word to the wise: Qui a multis timetur, multos timet. What does that mean? Bonus 1: How about this little nugget of wisdom: Quae sunt maximae divitiae? Non desiderare divitias. Bonus 2: Along the same lines: Est difficillimum se ipsum vincere.

HE WHO IS FEARED BY MANY, FEARS MANY WHAT IS THE GREATEST WEALTH? NOT TO DESIRE WEALTH THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IS TO CONQUER YOURSELF

Place these coins in order of value, from least to greatest: quadrans, denarius, sestertius. Bonus 1: What was the denarius minted from? Bonus 2: What is the literal meaning of quadrans?

QUADRANS, SESTERTIUS, DENARIUS SILVER A FOURTH PART

What early Roman writer, who might have been a freed slave, is well known for his comedy Pseudolus? Bonus 1: Another of Plautus' famous plays is Miles Gloriosus. Translate that title into English. Bonus 2: Plautus was followed by another Roman writer of comedies, more sophisticated and less well known. Who was he?

PLAUTUS THE BRAGGART SOLDIER TERENCE

If you saw a bottle with the abbreviation t.i.d., you might be able to give me the Latin of abbreviation and tell me what it means. Bonus 1: What kind of number is quater? Bonus 2: Now give me the distributive of this number.

TER IN DIE, THREE TIMES A DAY NUMERICAL ADVERB TERNI

At the Battle of Cynoscephalae in 197 B.C. T. Quinctius Flamininus utterly defeated what Macedonia king, who shared his name with the father of Alexander the Great? Bonus 1: Flaminius won that victory because his legions were more flexible than the rigid Macedonian battle formation. What was the Macedonian formation called? Bonus 2: After ending the war, Flaminius proclaimed the freedom of the Greeks at what Greek city?

PHILIP PHALANX CORINTH

Who resolved the dispute between Zeus and Hera about which gender, men or women, enjoys sex more? Bonus 1: What was Teiresias' answer? Bonus 2: Why would he know?

TEIRESIAS WOMEN HE HAD BEEN BOTH MAN AND WOMAN

What do the Latin nouns coma and crinis mean? Bonus 1: What is your frons? Bonus 2: What are your supercilia?

HAIR FRONS EYEBROWS

In what Roman province would you find the city Alesia? Bonus 1: In what province would you find Munda? Bonus 2: Where would you find Thapsus?

GAUL SPAIN AFRICA

What general took over the command against Mithridates by the lex Manilia? Bonus 1: From whom did he take it over? Bonus 2: What handsome Roman youth had led the mutiny against Lucullus as prelude to the loss of his command?

POMPEY LUCULLUS P. CLODIUS PULCHER

Why is humus an unusual noun? | Bonus 2: What other large category of 2nd declension nouns are feminine?

IT TAKES THE LOCATIVE AND IT'S FEMININE | THE NAMES OF TREES

When recognized, perform the following command: Sta et primam partem fabulae de tribus porcis parvis mihi narra. Bonus 1: Now perform this command: Sta et primam partem fabulae de Nivea et septem homunculis narra mihi. Bonus 2: Now perform this command: Sta et narra mihi primam partem fabulae de Auricoma et tribus ursis.

STAND AND SAY THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY ABOUT THE THREE PIGS STAND AND SAY THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY ABOUT SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES STAND AND SAY THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY ABOUT GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS

What English word derives from the Latin word that means “things that must be done”? “A-----” is just one of many future passive participles that have come to English unchanged. For your bonus, give these English words that are Latin future passive participles. Bonus 1: “Something that must be brought back (to the people)” Bonus 2: "Something that must be remembered”

AGENDA REFERENDUM MEMORANDUM

What was Dido’s dead husband’s name? Bonus 1: When Dido finally dies in the Aeneid, whom does Juno send to take a lock of her hair as an offering in the underworld? Bonus 2: Who was Dido’s evil brother?

SYCHAEUS IRIS PYGMALION

Translate “leader” in the following sentence: He knew that the leader would come to Rome. Bonus 1: From the same sentence, translate “would come.” Bonus 2: Make the phrase above a perfect infinitive.

DUCEM VENTURUM ESSE VENISSE

Give the Latin comparative adjective and meaning from which the English word “ameliorate” comes. Bonus 1: What is the comparative of “malus?” Bonus 2: Make the adjective above superlative.

MELIOR- BETTER PEIOR PESSIMUS

What woman with powers of sorcery helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece? Bonus 1: What Trojan woman had the power of prophecy? Bonus 2: What Greek king killed his father while trying to avoid a prophecy that said he’d do just that?

MEDEA CASSANDRA OEDIPUS

Use an ablative absolute to translate the subordinate clause in this sentence: “After dinner was prepared, everyone sat down to eat.” For your bonus, translate the subordinate clauses in the following sentences as ablative absolutes: Bonus 1: When Augustus was leader, Rome thrived. Bonus 2: If peace is made, all nations will rejoice.

CENA PARATA AUGUSTO DUCE PACE FACTA

What figurative device is evident in the first 3 words of the Aeneid? Bonus: What two poetic devices are used in the phrase: “magno cum murmure montis?”

METONYMY | ALLITERATION, ONOMATOPOEIA, PERSONIFCATION

What lyric meter has each line consist of eleven syllables? Bonus 1: What poet wrote this line of hendecasyllabic? “Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus.” Bonus 2: What Greek poet was the poet above honoring by naming his lover Lesbia?

HENDECASYLLABIC CATULLUS SAPPHO

What Roman orator was considered the best advocate of all? Bonus 1: His most famous oration was against which conspirator? Bonus 2: What rhetorical device is illustrated by his famous words: “O tempora, O mores!”

CICERO CATILINE APOSTROPHE

What ablative is illustrated in this sentence? “Miles erat fortior ullo homine.” Name the uses of ablative in the following sentences: Bonus 1: Caesar vir humili genere erat. Bonus 2: Captivus gladio interfectus est.

ABLATIVE OF COMPARISON ABLATIVE OF DESCRIPTION ABLATIVE OF MEANS

What case would “we” be in this sentence? We had to do the work. Bonus 1: Say in Latin: It had to be seen. Bonus 2: Translate “working” in this sentence: We did it by working hard.

DATIVE VIDENDUM ERAT LABORANDO

Who took Aeneas to the underworld? Bonus 1: Who was Aeneas’ faithful companion? Bonus 2: Whom did Aeneas have to defeat in Latium?

SIBYL ACHATES TURNUS

What Shakespearean tragedy would the Romans have called “Labor amoris amissus?” Bonus 1: What classic would this be? “ Fortis novus orbis terrarum” Bonus 2: How about this one? “Murum et hominum”

LOVE'S LABOR LOST BRAVE NEW WORLD OF MICE AND MEN

Give the genitive singular endings from 1st through 5th declension. Bonus 1: Now give the ablative singular endings. Bonus 2: Now give the genitive plural endings.

AE, I, IS, US, EI A, O, E, U, E ARUM, ORUM, UM, UUM, ERUM

What mythological father and son were the first to fly? | Bonus 1: What famous winged horse flew?

DAEDALUS and ICARUS | PEGASUS

What Roman holiday was similar to our Christmas? Bonus 1: To what deity was the holiday of Lupercalia dedicated? Bonus 2: What happened to some slaves during the Roman Christmas?

SATURNALIA FAUNUS THEY COULD EXCHANGE ROLES WITH THEIR MASTERS/BECOME FREE TEMPORARILY

What use of the subjunctive is illustrated in this sentence? Miratus est quid puellae in casa agerent. Bonus 1: Translate the above sentence. Bonus 2: Make “agerent” pluperfect.

INDIRECT QUESTION HE WONDERED WHAT THE GIRLS WERE DOING IN THE HOUSE EGISSENT

What do the verbs obliviscor and memini have in common? Bonus 1: What else is special about “obliviscor?” Bonus 2: Give 3 deponent verbs that take the ablative case.

BOTH TAKE THE GENITIVE CASE IT IS A DEPONENT VERB UTOR, FRUOR, FUNGOR, POTIOR, VESCOR

Where would you be if you were floating down the river Phlegethon? Bonus: What river were souls who had not received proper burial forbidden to cross?

THE UNDERWORLD | STYX

This round is over, but don’t shout for joy! Say in Latin “Don’t shout.” Bonus 1: Say in Latin “Come, my son.” Bonus 2: What command in Latin is the first person sg. personal pronoun in English?

NOLI CLAMARE/NOLITE CLAMARE VENI, MI FILI I

Translate "not to go" in the following sentence. He persuaded us not to go. Bonus 1: Translate the subjunctive verb in this sentence: He asked me where I was going. Bonus 2: Translate the subjunctive verb in this sentence: I will urge him to follow.

NE IREMUS IREM SEQUATUR

What Roman king is said to have laid out the Circus Maximus for chariot racing? Bonus 1: How were the factiones identified? Bonus 2: During the Empire, there were four factiones identified by what colors?

TARQUINIUS PRISCUS BY COLOR BLUE, GREEN, RED, WHITE

In 667 B.C. Alba Longa and Rome decided to settle a matter of power with a duel. What two families participated in the duel? Bonus 1: Which family fought for Rome? Bonus 2: How many of this families' brothers were killed?

HORATII AND CURIATII HORATII TWO

Complete this analogy. Astyanax : _____ : : Ascanius : Aeneas. Bonus 1: _____ : the man above : : Creusa : Aeneas Bonus 2: the first man above : _____ : : Aeneas : Anchises

HECTOR ANROMACHE PRIAM

Which of the following metrical feet is NOT used in dactylic hexameter: dactyl, iamb, spondee, or trochee? Bonus 1: A trochee will be used - if at all - only in one foot of a line of dactylic hexameter. Which one? Bonus 2: How many dactyls are in the first line of the Aeneid?

IAMB THE SIXTH (OR LAST) THREE

What deponent verb is a synonym for tempto? Bonus 1: Give the gerund of conor in the genitive case. Bonus 2: Give the present imperative plural of conor.

CONOR CONANDI CONAMINI

Give the nomen of the famous Roman whose praenomen was Marcus and whose cognomen was Cicero. Bonus 1: Give the cognomen of the author whose name begins Publius Ovidius. Bonus 2: Give the praenomen of the author whose name finishes Vergilius Maro.

TULLIUS NASO PUBLIUS

What Latin phrase signified a man who was the first in his family to achieve senatorial rank? Bonus 1: What phrase signified the regular order of offices that formed the Roman political ladder? Bonus 2: What phrase was used by Cicero to address the Senate?

NOVUS HOMO CURSUS HONORUM PATRES CONSCRIPTI

Who in mythology killed a series of bandits, including Procrustes, on his way to see his father? Bonus 1: To what city was Theseus going? Bonus 2: Who was Theseus' father, the king of Athens?

THESEUS ATHENS AEGEUS

What genre of literature often begins in medias res? Bonus 1: What epic begins with the wrath of Achilles? Bonus 2: What epic begins with the wrath of Juno?

EPIC POETRY THE ILLIAD THE AENEID

In the phrase mirabile dictu, what grammatical form is dictu? Bonus 1: Translate mirabile dictu. Bonus 2: Translate the supine in the phrase "awful to see."

SUPINE WONDROUS TO SAY VISU

What member of Rome’s First Triumvirate ran the fire brigade? Bonus 1: Who was the wealthiest member of the First Triumvirate? Bonus 2: Who was the first member of the triumvirate to die?

CRASSUS (x3)

Give the meaning of the idiom res novae. Bonus 1: Give the idiom using res that means "accomplishments." Bonus 2: Who wrote a book named with the idiom above, in which he bragged about finding Rome a city of brick and leaving it a city of marble?

REVOLUTION RES GESTAE AUGUSTUS

Take the number of the Muses, add the number of the Graces, and give the total in Latin. Bonus 1: Take the number of children Rhea Silvia had, multiply by the number of children Leto had, and add the number of sons Niobe had. Give your answer in Latin. Bonus 2: Responde Latine. Quot sorores Iupiter habebat?

DUODECIM DUODEVIGINTI TRES

What literary device is illustrated in this line from Ovid? Sonuerunt cymbala toto litore et attonita tympana pulsa manu. Bonus 1: What literary device is defined as "the use of the conjunction to add each member in a series"? Example: et color et Theseus et vox. Bonus 2: What literary device is defined as "the omission of the conjunction in a series"?

ONOMATOPOEIA/CONSONANCE POLYSYNDETON ASYNDETON

What particular Latin verbal construction is illustrated by the following sentence? Hoc est faciendum mihi. Bonus 1: Translate hoc est faciendum mihi. Bonus 2: Use a passive periphrastic to say in Latin, "We must do that."

PASSIVE PERIPHRASTIC/FUTURE PASSIVE PARTICIPLE PLUS THE VERB “TO BE” I MUST DO THIS/THIS MUST BE DONE BY ME ILLUD (ID) FACIENDUM/AGENDUM NOBIS

One famous Roman author died and another was born in the year 43 B.C. Name them both. Bonus 1: Who was responsible for this author's death? Bonus 2: After this author's death, how did Marc Antony get revenge on him for the Philippics?

CICERO DIED AND OVID WAS BORN SECOND TRIUMVIRATE (MARC ANTONY) HE HAD CICERO'S HEAD AND HANDS CUT OFF AND DISPLAYED ON THE ROSTRA

Translate the following line. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus. Bonus 1: "Lesbia" was the pseudonym for what Roman woman? Bonus 2: What kind of animal was Lesbia's pet?

LET US LIVE, MY LESBIA, AND LET US LOVE. CLODIA SPARROW

Of the mythological women Alcmene, Amphitrite, Demeter, and Semele, which one did not bear a child of Zeus? Bonus 1: Of these women, which one was the mother of Heracles? Bonus 2: In what form did Zeus appear to Semele, and what was the result?

AMPHITRITE ALCMENE AS HIS TRUE FORM, AND IT KILLED HER

In Book I of the Aeneid, who says these words? Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Bonus 1: In the same book, who says "dux femina facti"? Bonus 2: Who says, "O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt"?

AENEAS VENUS AENEAS

What is the nomen of the author of poems to Lesbia? Bonus 1: What is his praenomen? Bonus 2: In what city was Gaius Valerius Catullus born?

VALERIUS GAIUS VERONA

After what mythological characters are mosaics named? | Bonus: Who was the muse of epic poetry?

THE MUSES | CALLIOPE

Translate this sentence into Latin: he hated me. Bonus 1: Try this one: He will hate me. Bonus 2: And this one: He carried it away today. (Using aufero)

ODERAT ME ODERIT ME ABSTULIT HODIE

We are all familiar with the famous Latin phrase, “seize the day.” Please make both words in this phrase plural. Bonus 1: Now make the phrase “Beware of the dog” plural. Bonus 2: Do the same for “That is.”

CARPITE DIES CAVETE CANES EA SUNT

What wildly popular series of books would the ancient Romans have called: “Figulus Pilosus”? Bonus 1: Professor Severus Snape is Harry’s least favorite teacher. What is the meaning of Professor Snape’s first name? Bonus 2: One of the passwords to the Gryffindor tower is “Caput Draconis.” Please translate this phrase.

HARRY POTTER GRAVE, STRICT, STERN HEAD OF A DRAGON

Who was the first Etruscan king of Rome? Bonus 1: Who was his wife? Bonus 2: With what special power is this king generally associated?

(LUCIUS) TARQUINIUS PRISCUS TANAQUIL PROPHECY

What structures might one find lining the Via Appia outside of the city walls? Bonus 1: What did the Romans call the line that demarcated the sacred boundaries of the city? Bonus 2: What road, lined with temples, ran through the Forum Romanum?

TOMBS POMERIUM VIA SACRA

The paint for frescoes was applied on top of what white substance? Bonus 1: What Pompeiian house includes brilliantly colored frescoes depicting unidentifiable religious practices? Bonus 2: One Pompeiian fresco depicts a figure with an extremely large phallus. This figure is so proud of his phallus that he is weighing it. Who is he?

PLASTER VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES PRIAPUS

In Latin, instruct Marcus to speak! Bonus 1: Now instruct Cornelius to do it! Bonus 2: Now tell Marcella to lead!

MARCE, DIC CORNELI, FAC MARCELLA, DUC

Give the 1st person singular present active subjunctive form of “esse." Bonus 1: Make “sim” imperfect. Bonus 2: Make “essem” indicative.

SIM ESSEM ERAM

What rhetorical device is evident in the sentence, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”? Bonus 1: The repetition of the “p” sound could indicate what other rhetorical device? Bonus 2: What is the repetition of vowel sounds known as?

ALLITERATION/CONSONANCE CONSONANCE/ALLITERATION ASSONANCE

Imagine that you are a diehard Certamen player from a powerhouse Certamen school. You live, breathe, and eat Certamen. You practice Certamen for 3-hours a day after school. You only date fellow Certamen players. You cry like a baby when you lose Certamen matches. You want to be married in your Latin teacher’s room, so that your Certamen trophies will surround you. To what goddess would you undoubtedly have prayed prior to this competition, in order to ensure that you will be victorious? Bonus 1: Say in Latin, “I cry like a baby when I am conquered in Certamen.” Bonus 2: Say in Latin, “I wish to be married in my Latin teacher’s classroom.”

NIKE FLEO UT INFANS CUM VINCAR IN CERTAMINE VOLO IUNGERI IN CAMERA MAGISTRI/MAGISTRAE LINGUAE LATINAE

There is a painting by Goya in the Museo del Prado in Madrid that depicts a Roman god consuming a headless, bloody child. This painting shares its name with what god? Bonus 1: Which child survived the filial cannibalism of Saturn? Bonus 2: How did he survive Saturn?

SATURN JUPITER HIS MOTHER WRAPPED A ROCK IN BLANKETS AND GAVE THE ROCK TO SATURN, WHO ATE IT THINKING THAT IT WAS JUPITER

In what meter is Vergil’s Aeneid written? Bonus 1: In what meter is much of Catullus poetry, including the poem that begins with the word “Vivamus.” Bonus 2: Please parse the word “vivamus.”

DACTYLIC HEXAMETER HENDECASYLLABIC 1ST PLURAL PRESENT ACTIVE SUBJUNCTIVE

Catullus uses the word “Vivamus” in his fifth poem. What type of subjunctive does this word employ? Bonus 1: Say in Latin, “May y’all hear me.” Bonus 2: Now say in Latin, “Let me love!”

VOLITIVE/JUSSIVE ME AUDIATIS AMEM

Name the mythological hottie who fell in love with his own reflection. Bonus 1: Which nymph, clearly interested only in looks, pined away for this dude? Bonus 2: Into what kind of flower was Narcissus transformed?

NARCISSUS ECHO NARCISSUS

Which Roman Emperor, who ruled from 193-211 AD, was from Africa? Bonus 1: What dynasty of emperors did this emperor found? Bonus 2: What emperor, who built a complex of baths in Rome, succeeded the above emperor?

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS SEVERANS ANTONINUS/CARACALLA

Who ignored Aeneas when he attempted to visit her in the Underworld? Bonus 1: Who was the sister of this woman? Bonus 2: What Latin phrase, recited by Cato, urged the demise of Carthage?

DIDO ANNA CARTHAGO DELENDA EST

Who received the agnomen “Africanus” for his defeat of Hannibal? Bonus 1: From what island in the Mediterranean did Africanus invade Africa? Bonus 2: In what battle did he defeat the Carthaginian general Hannibal?

(PUBLIUS CORNELIUS) SCIPIO SICILY ZAMA

What famous Egyptian queen did Marc Antony fancy? Bonus 1: In what city, famous for its library and lighthouse, was Cleopatra born? Bonus 2: At what battle were Antony and this queen defeated?

CLEOPATRA (VII) ALEXANDRIA ACTIUM

Translate the relative clause in the following sentence with a participial phrase. “We saw the men who were coming to the forum.” Bonus 1: Translate the participle now: “We saw the men who were about to come to the forum.” Bonus 2: Now use a relative clause and translate the whole sentence. “We saw the men who were coming out of the forum.”

VENIENTES AD FORUM VENTUROS VIROS VIDEBAMUS QUI EX FORO VENIEBANT

Which Roman king founded a settlement on the Palatine Hill? Bonus 1: Which of the seven kings of Rome was, as a child, the slave of a king? Bonus 2: Which Roman king was the first to take a census?

ROMULUS SERVIUS TULLIUS SERVIUS TULLIUS

What Shakespearean play would the Romans have called Somnium Mediae Noctis? Bonus 1: In the play-within-a-play in the play above, a mythological love story is performed. Who are the lovers in this story, which features a dangerous lioness and a mulberry bush? Bonus 2: Another Shakespearean play draws from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe for its entire plot. Name this play.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM PYRAMUS AND THISBE ROMEO AND JULIET

Quid est? It was a mythological creature whose blood was toxic. It lived in Lernea. Juno sent a crab to try to keep anyone from killing it; the crab was defeated but became the constellation Cancer. Every time one of its nine heads was cut off, another two grew back. Bonus 1: Killing the creature above was Heracles' second labor. What was his first? Bonus 2: Who gave Heracles his labors?

HYDRA KILLING THE NEMEAN LION EURYSTHEUS

Name Ovid's most famous work. Bonus 1: For what literary form is Martial best known? Bonus 2: During what age of literature did Ovid write?

METAMORPHOSES EPIGRAMS GOLDEN AGE/AUGUSTAN AGE

Use an ablative construction to say in Latin, "The son is taller than the father." Bonus 1: Translate the sentence again, without an ablative. Bonus 2: Now use an ablative to say, "The mothers are smaller than the daughters."

FILIUS ALTIOR PATRE EST FILIUS EST ALTIOR QUAM PATER MATRES MINORES FILIABUS SUNT

What is DCI plus DCI in Roman numerals? Bonus 1: What is DCI minus CXC? Bonus 2: What is CDXI plus CDIV?

MCCII CDXI DCCCXV

What emperor succeeded Marcus Aurelius? Bonus 1: Who succeeded the man above? Bonus 2: Who succeeded the man above?

COMMODUS PERTINAX DIDIUS JULIANUS

Where in the Underworld did heroes and good people go after death? Bonus 1: Where were sinners punished? Bonus 2: Who ferried dead souls across the river into the Underworld, and what was the name of that river?

ELYSIUM OR THE ELYSIAN FIELDS TARTARUS CHARON, THE STYX

"Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas . . ." is an example of which of the following literary devices: alliteration, anaphora, antithesis, or hyperbole? Bonus 1: The Latin word velut introduces which of the following literary devices: antithesis, chiasmus, litotes, or simile? Bonus 2: Name the literary device found in the phrase “Quos ego...”

ANAPHORA SIMILE APOSIEOPESIS

Translate into English: Cuius libris uteris? Bonus 1: Give the principal parts of the verb in that sentence. Bonus 2: Give the principal parts of the verb fungor.

WHOSE BOOKS ARE YOU USING? UTOR, UTI, USUS SUM FUNGOR, FUNGI, FUNCTUS SUM

What dynasty of emperors ruled Rome from 69 to 96? Bonus 1: Which of the Flavian emperors began the construction of the Colosseum? Bonus 2: Which of the Flavians was emperor when Pompeii was destroyed?

FLAVIANS VESPASIAN TITUS

Name the room in a Roman house which was furnished with a mensa and tres lecti. Bonus: What were the mappae or lintea used at a Roman cena?

TRICLINIUM | NAPKINS

Who was the youngest of the Olympian gods, whose followers are known as the Maenads or "frenzied ones"? Bonus 1: The mother of the god above was the daughter of the founder of Thebes. Name this paternal grandfather of Dionysus. Bonus 2: What Latin adjective was also a Roman name for the god whose followers were the Maenads?

DIONYSUS CADMUS LIBER

Which two of the following people were Roman historians? Livy, Martial, Plautus, Tacitus, Thucydides Bonus 1: Which two of the following were poets? Horace, Lucretius, Plato, Pliny, Terence Bonus 2: Which of the following is a comedic playwright? Caesar, Petronius, Plautus, Seneca, Vergil

LIVY AND TACITUS HORACE AND LUCRETIUS PLAUTUS

What use of the dative is illustrated in the following sentence? Duas legiones praesidio reliquit. Bonus 1: What dative construction is "Caesar" in the following sentence? “Duas legiones praesidio Caesari reliquit.” Bonus 2: What term is used for this pair of constructions?

PURPOSE REFERENCE DOUBLE DATIVE

What was Appius Claudius' office at the time that he built aqueducts in Rome as well as a major road leading southeast? Bonus: To what town did the Via Appia, designed by Appius Claudius, originally lead?

CENSOR | CAPUA

What were Eurus, Notus, and Zephyrus? Bonus 1: Who was the king of the winds? Bonus 2: To what sailor did Aeolus give a bag of winds, to help this sailor get home from the Trojan War?

WINDS AEOLUS ODYSSEUS

Give the nominative, genitive, and gender of the fifth declension noun from which "diet" and "diary" are derived. Bonus 1: What judicial term means "to not set a date"? Bonus 2: Give a phrase using dies that can be used to refer to a daily allowance or payment.

DIES, DIEI, M. SINE DIE PER DIEM

How many elisions are in the following line from the Aeneid? “litora multum ille et terris iactatus et alto” Bonus 1: How many spondees are in that line? Bonus 2: The line that follows is: “multa quoque et bello passus dum conderet urbem.” What is the Latin name of the urbem mentioned?

TWO FOUR ROMA

Which one of the following does not belong and why: Canis, corpus, caput, cubiculum? Bonus: Amor, of course, is a noun and means love. But what other part of speech, with what meaning, can it be?

CANIS, NOT NEUTER | VERB, I AM LOVED

Which of the following does not belong, and why: Captus, locutus, visus, lectus? Bonus: What's out of place here and why: Ars, meta, auriga, nox?

LOCUTUS, PERFECT ACTIVE PARTICIPLE | AURIGA, MASCULINE

What use of the ablative is seen in this sentence: Marcus altior Lucio est? Bonus: Say that sentence without using an ablative.

COMPARISON | MARCUS ALTIOR QUAM LUCIUS EST

Make celeris manus accusative. | Bonus: Now make it genitive plural.

CELEREM MANUM | CELERIUM MANUUM

In the sentence "He thinks he has enough money", how would you say in Latin "enough money". Bonus: Give me the one that doesn't belong, along with its gender and meaning: tempus, vulgus, quercus, pelagus.

SATIS PECUNIAE | QUERCUS, FEMININE, OAK

Polybius, the Greek historian, was sent to Rome as hostage after the victory of Paulus over the Macedonia king at what battle in 168 B.C.? Bonus: Who was the Macedonian king whom Paulus defeated?

PYDNA | PERSEUS

Coram, prae, and palam are prepositions that govern what case? Bonus: Each of these words can also be used as what other part of speech?

ABLATIVE | ADVERB

In the sentence "I came as an aid for my son" translate "as an aid to my son". Bonus: In the sentence, "Carthago Romanis delenda est", what is the case and constructoin of Romanis?

AUXILIO FILIO | ABLATIVE OF AGENCY

What Greek herald at Troy had a loud, brazen voice? His name gives us the English word for extremely loud or booming, particularly in a voice? Bonus: Who was the ugliest of the Greeks at Troy? He dared to speak against and ridicule Agamemnon. His name gives us the English word for loud, abusive, and scurrilous.

STENTOR | THERSITES

The mascot for the University of Virginia is the Cavalier, which is derived from the Latin word caballus, which means what? Bonus: We must give equal time to Virginia Tech, whose motto is the Fighting Gobbler. The Romans didn’t know about turkeys, but they did have peacocks. What is the Latin word for peacock?

HORSE | BUBO

Who was the maiden who was sacrificed by her father so that the Greek fleet could set sail for Troy? Bonus: Who was this maiden’s mother who later conspired with her lover to kill Agamemnon when he returned home from the war?

IPHIGENIA | CLYTEMNESTRA

The subsititution of Vulcanus for ignis is an example of what poetic device? Bonus: The phrase magno cum murmure montis represents what two poetic devices?

METONYMY | ALLITERATION AND ONOMATOPOEIA

Catullus writes in Carmen 49 that he is tanto pessimus omnium poeta/ quanto pessimus omnium patronus. Who is this patron to whom Catullus refers? Bonus: Catullus also writes in Carmen 93 that he doesn’t care to know utrum sis albus an ater homo. To whom is he speaking in this poem?

CICERO | JULIUS CAESAR

What mythological figure does Catullus describe in his lines: tam gratum est mihi quam ferunt puellae/ pernici aureolum fuisse malum? Bonus: What figure of speech is found in the next line when that golden apple zonam soluit diu ligatam?

ATLANTA | EUPHEMISM (FOR LOSS OF VIRGINITY)

After what battle did Vergil lose his family farm in northern Italy when it was confiscated to provide land for soldiers? Bonus: What Roman historian, literary patron, statesman, and supporter of the emperor Augustus was responsible for interceding on Vergil’s behalf to help him retrieve his property?

PHILIPPI | (GAIUS ASINIUS) POLLIO

Ovid writes in his Ars Amatoria that girls spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae. According to this line, why is the Circus Maximus a goodplace to find girls? Bonus: In the line spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae, what form is spectatum?

BECAUSE GIRLS COME TO SEE AND BE SEEN | SUPINE

What in ancient Rome was a naumachia? | Bonus: What was a naufragium?

A MOCK NAVAL BATTLE | SHIPWRECK

What two reasons in Latin does Ovid give for his exile from Rome? Bonus: Ovid was exiled to a bleak outpost on the Black Sea called Tomi. In what modern country was Tomi, now called Costanza, located?

CARMEN ET ERROR | BULGARIA

Odysseus made a journey to the Underworld in order to seek advice on how to get home. While there, much to his dismay, he ran into Anticlea. Who was she? Bonus: Odysseus also ran into this Greek hero who refused to speak to him because he was still upset over losing Achilles’ armor to him. Who was this hero?

HIS MOTHER | AJAX

Complete the following analogy- tetigi : tango :: _____ : parco. Bonus: Complete this analogy- tetigi : tango :: _____ : consisto.

PEPERCI | CONSTITI

In the Aeneid, Vergil writes, una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis/ Africus. Generally speaking, what are Eurus, Notus, and Africus? Bonus: A few lines later, Vergil writes that these things, fluctusque ad sidera tollit. What figure of speech does this phrase illustrate?

WINDS | HYPERBOLE

Which river in the Underworld was the river of lamentation and woe? Bonus: Which was the river of fire?

COCYTUS | (PERI)PHLEGETHON

What mythological creature was half-horse, half-fish? | Bonus: What half-man, half-fish son of Poseidon typically rode this creature?

HIPPOCAMPUS | TRITON

What is the term in Latin poetry for the avoidance of an elision at a point where it would normally occur? Bonus: What is the term used to describe the special type of elision in Latin poetry in which words ending in a vowel plus an “M” are elided with words beginning with a vowel or an “H”?

HIATUS | ECTHLIPSIS

Name the building being described: At one point, probably the largest free-standing building of its type in the world. By the use of barrel vaults and arches four stories high, concentric rings lead into the arena. Bonus: In what year was this building opened by the Emperor Titus?

COLOSSEUM | AD 80

Which emperor tried to have his annoying, busy-body mother killed by building a collapsible boat? Bonus: What was the name of this mother?

NERO | AGRIPPINA (THE YOUNGER)

What figure of speech is illustrated in this line from Vergil’s Aeneid: Post mihi non simili poena commissa luetis? Bonus: Identify one figure of speech illustrated in Martial’s line "Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus es idem"?

LITOTES | OXYMORON, PARADOX, ASYNDETON

What Republican poet was the author of De Rerum Natura? | Bonus: De Rerum Natura espouses what philosophy?

LUCRETIUS | EPICUREANISM

In Book I of the Aeneid, Vergil writes dux femina facti. To whom does this statement refer? Bonus: Who speaks the words dux femina facti and whom is the speaker addressing?

DIDO/ELISSA | VENUS IS ADDRESSING AENEAS (and ACHATES)

What emperor’s dying words in translation were “Oh my, I think that I am turning into a god!” Bonus: Name this emperor’s two sons who also were to become emperor.

VESPASIAN | TITUS AND DOMITIAN

Catullus writes in Carmen 27, Minister vetuli puer Falerni,/ inger mi calices amariores. What is this Falerni? Bonus: The poem continues, ut lex Postumiae iubet magistrae. What function is Postumia performing at this drinking party?

A TYPE OF WINE | MAGISTER (-A) BIBENDI

About the head of which king of Rome did flames appear when he was a child? Bonus: Who, in the Aeneid, had a similar experience?

SERVIUS TULLIUS | ASCANIUS/IULUS

What is the Latin word for the fresh juice pressed from grapes? Bonus: What is the Latin word for spoiled wine, which was often used as vinegar or given to slaves?

MUSTUM | ACETUM

What Latin poet was the author of the phrase Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit? Bonus: Translate this phrase into English.

VERGIL | PERHAPS ONE DAY IT WILL HELP TO REMEMBER EVEN THESE THINGS

Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is described here? It’s dedicatory inscription reads: “To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set up this bronze statue reaching to Olympus when they had pacified the waves of war and crowned their city with the spoils taken from the enemy. Not only over the seas but also on land did they kindle the lovely torch of freedom.” Bonus: Which of the Seven Wonders is described here? Pausanias writes, “In his right hand a figure of Victory made from ivory and gold. In his left hand, his scepter inlaid with all metals, and an eagle perched on the sceptre. The sandals of the god are made of gold, as is his robe.”

COLOSSUS OF RHODES | TEMPLE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA

What was the name of the Greek who was left behind at Troy to convince the Trojans to take the horse into the city? Bonus: What was the name of the Trojan priest who tried to convince the Trojans not to take the horse into the city and exclaimed “I fear Greeks, even those bearing gifts”?

SINON | LAOCOON

What is the 3rd person singular, imperfect active subjunctive of the Latin verb from which we get the English word “tractor”? Bonus: Change this to the pluperfect tense, keeping all else the same.

TRAHERET | TRAXISSET

Horace wrote, exegi monumentum aere perennius. What was this monument more lasting than bronze? Bonus: What is the meaning of Horace’s phrase aurea mediocritas?

HIS POETRY | THE GOLDEN MEAN

What Roman poet claimed exegi monumentum aere perennius? | Bonus: Who was this poet's literary patron?

HORACE | MAECENAS

In Carmen 8, Catullus asks, seemingly with a broken heart: Cui videberis bella? Translate this sentence into English. Bonus: Two lines later Catullus asks: Cui labella mordebis? Translate this sentence.

TO WHOM WILL YOU SEEM BEAUTIFUL? | WHOSE LITTLE LIPS WILL YOU NIBBLE?

Identify the common bond: Eurus, Notus, Boreas, and Zephyr. | Bonus: Which one of the winds was the father of two of the Argonauts?

WINDS | BOREAS

Does the English word “pelagic” refer to land, germs, skin, sea, or fear? Bonus: Does the English word “sidereal” refer to star, sun, moon, giant, or sand?

SEA | STAR

What is the first person singular pluperfect active indicative of amo? Bonus 1: How can this form be translated into English? Bonus 2: Give the future perfect form, keeping person, mood and voice the same.

AMAVERAM I HAD LOVED AMAVERO

What prominent Roman, a contemporary of Julius Caesar, was married to Terentia? Bonus 1: What is the meaning of the cognomen of this man? Bonus 2: In what year did this Roman die?

(MARCUS TULLIUS) CICERO CHICKPEA 43 BC

In the sentence “deo volente, Brutus mox aderit” what is the name for the construction of “deo volente”? Bonus 1: What form of participle is “volente” (give tense and voice)? Bonus 2: Change “volente” to the plural, keeping the case the same.

ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE PRESENT ACTIVE VOLENTIBUS

Of what was Thalia the muse? | Bonus: Who was the mother of the Muses?

COMEDY | MNEMOSYNE

What poetic device is illustrated by the words “magno cum murmure montis”? Bonus 1: These words come from the Aeneid. What is the name for the meter of that poem? Bonus 2: Give the full name of the poet.

ALLITERATION, ONOMATOPOEIA DACTYLIC HEXAMETER PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS NASO

What Roman writer, renowned for his letters, witnessed the destruction of Pompeii? Bonus 1: In what year did this event occur? Bonus 2: Name the famous volcano on the island of Sicily.

PLINY THE YOUNGER 79 AD MT. ETNA

Who wrote a poem beginning “vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus”? Bonus 1: In what meter is it written? Bonus 2: Give the person, tense and mood of “vivamus.”

CATULLUS HENDECASYLLABICS FIRST PERSON PLURAL PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE

What is the genitive singular of “mater bona”? | Bonus: What English word meaning “motherly” comes from mater?

MATRIS BONAE | MATERNAL

Name Hercules’ first wife. Bonus 1: What terrible fate befell her? Bonus 2: Who was his second wife?

MEGARA HERCULES KILLED HER IN A FIT OF MADNESS DEIANEIRA

Translate into Latin: The bad sailor sleeps. Bonus 1: Give the imperfect of sleep (same person, mood). Bonus 2: How would you say “Let us sleep” in Latin?

NAUTUS MALUS DORMIT DORMIEBAT DORMIAMUS

What culinary delights were called “glires” in Latin? Bonus 1: What Latin noun is the root of “culinary” and what does the noun mean? Bonus 2: What would be the genitive of glires?

DORMICE CULINA- KITCHEN GLIRUM

Give the perfect passive participle (masculine singular) of audio. Bonus 1: How would you translate “vox magistri auditus erat”? Bonus 2: How would you give this command in Latin: “Listen, Claudius!”

AUDITUS THE TEACHER'S VOICE HAD BEEN HEARD AUDI, CLAUDI!

What was the name of the man who got into the rites of the Good Goddess disguised as a woman? Bonus 1: At whose house did this event take place? Bonus 2: Caesar famously divorced his wife after the event. Whom did he marry next?

CLODIUS PULCHER JULIUS CAESAR'S CALPURNIA

What is the meaning of the expression “ceteris paribus”? | Bonus: Which of the following numbers might be described as “par”: tres, quinque, octo?

OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL | OCTO (PAR- EVEN)

Translate into Latin: "We use swords". Bonus 1: Change this to “We can use swords”. Bonus 2: Change that to the future.

GLADIIS ULTIMUR GLADIIS UTI POSSUMUS GLADIIS UTI POTERIMUS

What was the name of Dido’s first husband? Bonus 1: Who killed him? Bonus 2: What was the name of Dido’s sister?

SYCHAEUS (HER BROTHER) PYGMALION ANNA

Which emperor succeeded Tiberius? | Bonus: What was the name of his favorite racehorse?

CALIGULA | INCITATUS

What is the name of the official who interprets the entrails of birds? Bonus 1: On what hill were the Sacred Geese kept? Bonus 2: The Sacred Geese achieved their status originally by warning the city of attackers. Who were these attackers?

HARUSPEX CAPITOLINE GAULS

St. Augustine heard the voice of a child saying “Tolle, lege.” What does that mean? Bonus 1: What are the principal parts of tollo? Bonus 2: What is the gerundive of tollo? (give the nominative singular masculine)

PICK UP AND READ TOLLO, TOLLERE, SUSTULI, SUBLATUM/US TOLLENDUS

On the subject of gerundives, what is the meaning of Carthago delenda est? Bonus 1: Who said Carthago delenda est? Bonus 2: When was this demand carried out?

CARTHAGE MUST BE DESTROYED (MARCUS) CATO THE ELDER 146 BC

What is the plural of omne cornu? | Bonus: Which declension does cornu belong to?

OMNIA CORNUA | THE 4TH

Who was the fourth of the Seven Kings of Rome? Bonus 1: In what century is he traditionally said to have lived? Bonus 2: Who succeeded him?

ANCUS MARCIUS 7TH BC TARQUINIUS PRISCUS

What officials were empowered to remove members of the Senate for bad behavior? Bonus 1: How many censors were there at any one time? Bonus 2: What toga were they entitled to wear?

CENSORS TWO TOGA PRATEXTA

Rewrite the following sentence in passive form: porcae monstrum timebant. Bonus 1: What is the present passive infinitive of timeo? Bonus 2: Using the passive voice in English, translate the sentence passive sentence.

MONSTRUM A PORCIS TIMEBATUR TIMERI THE MONSTER WAS FEARED BY THE PIGS

Who was the brother of Prometheus who was married Pandora? | Bonus: What remained in Pandora’s box when all the griefs and troubles had been let out?

EPIMETHEUS | HOPE

What form of participle is found in the expression “et iterum venturus est”? Bonus 1: In Latin, express the simple future, “He will come.” Bonus 2: Now express the future perfect, “He will have come.” venerit.

FUTURE ACTIVE VENIET VENERIT

Listen to the Latin description. Who is being described? Give the Latin name. dea magna est, filia Iovis; avis eius bubo est; dea sapientiae est. Bonus 1: She is said to have sprung from Jupiter’s head. What was she wearing at the time? Bonus 2: She was one of the goddesses at the Judgment of Paris. Who were the other two?

MINERVA ARMOR JUNO and VENUS

Answer in English. Cuius filius Cupido est? Bonus 1: Translate “He is Venus’s son” into Latin. Bonus 2: What is the Greek name equivalent to Cupid?

VENUS FILIUS VENERIS EST EROS

What city in England was known to the Romans as Aquae Sulis? Bonus 1: What was the Roman name for London? Bonus 2: What Queen of the Iceni led a revolt against Roman rule?

BATH LONDINIUM BOUDICCA/BOADICEA

Identify the tense, mood and voice of the verb: ab omnibus laudaretur. Bonus 1: Translate: si pecuniam daret, ab omnibus laudaretur. If he gave money, he would be praised by everybody. Bonus 2: What would be the Latin form for “he would have been praised”?

IMPERFECT SUBJUNCTIVE PASSIVE IF HE GAVE MONET, HE WOULD BE PRAISED BY EVERYBODY LAUDATUS EST

Identify the verse form of the following two lines: non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare/ hoc tantum possum dicere: non amo te Bonus 1: Who is the author of these lines? Bonus 2: Translate the first line.

ELEGIAC COUPLET MARTIAL I DO NOT LOVE YOU, SABIDIUS, AND I AM NOT ABLE TO SAY WHY

A medieval song begins, “Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus.” What is the tense and mood of gaudeamus? Bonus 1: The principal parts of gaudeo are gaudeo, gaudere, gavisus sum. What do you call this kind of verb with a mixture of active and passive forms? semideponent verb. Bonus 2: If we add a –b- to gaudeamus and get gaudebamus, now what tense and mood do we have?

PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE SEMIDEPONENT VERB IMPERFECT INDICATIVE

A Roman dining room was designed for how many people to eat together? Bonus 1: What was the Latin name for this room? Bonus 2: A complete feast in Roman times was said to run “ab ovo ad ...” what? Give the Latin word.

NINE TRICLINIUM MALUM/MALA

What emperor was originally named L. Domitius Ahenobarbus? Bonus 1: What emperor adopted this person? Bonus 2: What daughter of the person from 1 did the first person marry only to divorce her later and have her put to death?

NERO CLAUDIUS OCTAVIA

What is the meaning of the expression “caveat emptor”? Bonus 1: What is the case and number of emptor? Bonus 2: Rewrite the sentence in the plural.

LET THE BUYER BEWARE NOMINATIVE SINGULAR CAVEANT EMPTORES

What relative pronoun should be used in translating the sentence “This is the woman to whom he gave the poison”? Bonus 1: What would be the plural of whom (same case)? Bonus 2: What is the difference between the interrogative pronoun and the relative pronoun in the masculine nominative singular?

CUI QUIBUS QUIS, QUI

What is the perfect active infinitive of rideo? Bonus 1: What English word meaning “laughable” comes from rideo? Bonus 2: What English word meaning “laughable” comes from the Latin word for game or entertainment?

RISISSE RIDICULOUS LUDICROUS

What woman was turned into a cow by Hera and guarded by Argus? Bonus: What god managed to get Argus to close all 100 eyes?

IO | HERMES/MERCURY

The motto of St. John’s College in Annapolis is “facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque.” What are two meanings of liberi? Bonus 1: What sort of ablative is used in libris libraque? Bonus 2: What is the meaning of libris libraque?

FREE MEN, CHILDREN MEANS BY MEANS OF BOOKS AND A SCALE

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, what god pursues Daphne? Bonus 1: What kind of being is Daphne’s father? Bonus 2: How is Daphne saved from the first god’s unwelcome advances?

APOLLO A RIVER/RIVER GOD SHE BECOMES A TREE

What is the case and number of the word dictu in mirabile dictu? Bonus: Mirabile dictu means “wonderful to say.” How would you render “wonderful to see” in Latin, using the same construction?

ABLATIVE SINGULAR | MIRABILE VISU

In the line of Cleopatras in Egypt, what was the number of the one who was involved with Julius Caesar? In other words,she was known as Cleopatra the Howmanyeth? Bonus 1: What was the name of her brother? Bonus 2: What was the name of the child claimed to be hers and Caesar’s?

SEVENTH PTOLEMY CAESARION

What book by Charles Darwin contains a word derived from the Latin word for “appearance” or “particular sort”? Bonus 1: What would be the genitive plural of species in Latin? Bonus 2: What seven-letter English adjective is derived from this noun?

ORIGIN OF SPECIES SPECIERUM SPECIAL

In what profession was the groma a useful tool? Bonus 1: What was the name of the curved implement used to scrape down after working out in the gymnasium? Bonus 2: What implement was used to write on a wax tablet?

SURVEYING, ROADBUILDING, ARMY STRIGIL STILUS

What building in Rome had a Greek name referring to “all the gods”? Bonus 1: What was the Latin word for the round opening at the top of the this building? Bonus 2: What was the triangular structure above the columns in the front called?

PANTHEON OCULUS PEDIMENT

Rewrite this sentence in the pluperfect: Troia magna est. Bonus 1: Translate the pluperfect. Bonus 2: Rewrite the pluperfect in the future perfect.

TROIA MAGNA FUERAT TROY HAD BEEN GRAT TROIA MAGNA FUERIT

Finish the following translation of “Clodia said that she did not love Catullus.” Clodia dixit se ... Bonus 1: Change the form of love to make the sentence mean “Clodia said that she had not loved Catullus.” Bonus 2: What is the form of the verb " she had not loved"?

CATULLUM NON AMARE AMAVISSE PERFECT ACTIVE INFINITVE

What princess did Perseus rescue from a sea dragon? Bonus 1: Who was Perseus’s mother? Bonus 2: What did Perseus do with the Gorgon’s head once he had cut it off?

ANDROMEDA DANAE GAVE IT TO ATHENA/MINERVA

“corruptio optimi pessima” What is the degree of the adjectives in this saying? Bonus 1: Replace optimi with the comparative degree in the same case. Bonus 2: What English verb meaning “to make better, to improve” derives from the comparative of optimi?

SUPERLATIVE MELIORIS AMELIORATE

Who said “Vare, redde legiones!” Bonus 1: What disastrous Roman defeat prompted his words? Bonus 2: What was the year?

AUGUSTUS BATTLE OF TEUTONURGEN FOREST 9 AD

What Roman fighting formation was named after an animal? Bonus 1: What was the task of the signifer? Bonus 2: What was the military rank of the primipilus?

TESTUDO TO CARRY THE STANDARD CENTURION

What mountain range runs up and down the “spine” of Italy? Bonus 1: What mountain was the traditional home of the major gods? Bonus 2: What mountain was the traditional home of the Muses?

THE APPENINES MT. OLYMPUS MT. HELICON

The motto of Hogwarts School is “Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.” What is the form of the word titillandus? Bonus 1: According to this motto, what should one not do to a sleeping dragon? Bonus 2: Change draco dormiens to the accusative singular.

GERUNDIVE TICKLE IT DRACONEM DORMIENTEM

Why was Styx rewarded by being made a river by which the gods swear unbreakable oaths? Bonus: Who was the father of Styx?

HE CAME TO ZEUS' AID WHEN THE TITANS ATTACKED | OCEANUS

In the Roman calendar, what were the nundinae? | Bonus: How often did they occur?

MARKET DAYS | EVERY EIGHT DAYS

What rhetorical device is illustrated by the repetitions in “quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus”? Bonus 1: What Greek term is used for understatement, such as “Hercules was not a very weak man”? Bonus 2: What about the reverse, exaggeration, such as “I have told you a million times not to snort during class”?

ANAPHORA LITOTES HYPERBOLE

The Romans have provided us with many fine words to suggest that people resemble animals. What Latin-based English word mean “piglike”? Bonus: What about “donkeylike” and “sheeplike”?

PORCINE/SUINE | ASININE and OVINE

What torture would Procrustes inflict upon unwitting passers-by? Bonus: Who finally put Procrustes out of business?

STRETCH THEM OUT OR CHOP THEM UP TO FIT HIS BED | THESEUS

What use of the genitive is illustrated by the expression “satis vini”? Bonus 1: What does “satis vini” mean? Bonus 2: Similarly, how would you say “more wine” in Latin?

THE WHOLE ENOUGH WINE PLUS VINI

What is the ablative singular of res publica? Bonus 1: What declension does res belong to? Bonus 2: What is the genitive plural of res publica?

RE PUBLICA THE FIFTH RERUM PUBLICARUM

What kind of objects were a quadrans and a sestertius? Bonus 1: What was a denarius made of? Bonus 2: What coin was made of gold, as its name indicates?

COINS SILVER AUREUS

What Republican era poet wrote a lengthy poem called De Rerum Natura? Bonus 1: What philosophical school did this poem and poet espouse? Bonus 2: What did he describe as the smallest components of all matter?

LUCRETIUS EPICUREAN ATOMS

What do you call a sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards, like “MUS NON SUM” Bonus 1: What does "mus non sum" mean? Bonus 2: What verb meaning “he holds” is also a palindrome?

PALINDROME I AM NOT A MOUSE TENET

What was the Latin name of the shrine for the household gods? Bonus 1: What did they call the offering of wine poured out on the ground?

LARARIUM | LIBATION

What son of the emperor led the troops for the seige on Masada? What festival celebrated on April 21st was intended to secure the health and safety of the flocks?

TITUS | PARILIA

Describe the physical appearance of the Sirens. | Bonus: Who punished the Sirens by taking away their wings?

BODIES OF WOMEN AND THE WINGS AND LEGS OF BIRDS | THE MUSES

Rewrite in the active voice (same tense): Caesar a multis viris occisus est. Bonus 1: What is the underlying Latin verb from which occiderunt, “they struck down”, is derived? Bonus 2: What about the verb “occido” with a short i? What verb is it derived from?

MULTI VIRI CAESAREM OCCIDERUNT CAEDO CADO

How would you say (using just one Latin word) “she used to be carried”? Bonus: Give the principal parts of porto.

FEREBATUR/PORTABATUR | PORTO, PORTARE, PORTAVI, PORTATUM/US

What was the priestess of Apollo called? Bonus 1: What animal was associated with Apollo? Bonus 2: Where was Apollo born?

PYTHIA PYTHON DELOS

Answer in Latin: Divide the number of tablets of Roman law by the number of Graces and add this to the number of years a consul served in office. Bonus: What is fifty and fiftieth?

QUINQUE | QUINDECIM and QUINTUS DECIMUS

What English noun comes from the present participle of the verb ago? Bonus 1: Name an English noun derived from the perfect passive participle of ago? Bonus 2: Name an English noun derived from the future passive participle of ago.

AGENT ACT, ACTION, ACTIVITY, ETC. AGENDA

In the sentence “veni huc quam celerrime” translate the phrase quam celerrime. Bonus 1: How would you say in Latin “more quickly”? Bonus 2: Give the masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular of the positive adj. on which this adverb is based.

AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE CELERIUS CELER, CELERIS, CELERE

What man survived Zeus' nine day flood and repopulated the Earth with men by casting stones over his shoulder? Bonus 1: Who was this man's wife, who repopulated the Earth with women the same way? Bonus 2: This man was warned of the flood by his father who had the ability to see into the future. Who was this father?

DEUCALION PYRRHA PROMETHEUS

When Dido finally dies in the Aeneid whom does Juno send to take a lock of her hair as an offering in the underworld? Bonus: Speaking of Dido, what was her dead husband’s name and who was her evil brother who killed him?

IRIS | SYCHAEUS and PYGMALION

Translate “leader” in the following sentence: He knew that the leader would come to Rome. Bonus 1: From the same sentence, translate “would come.” Bonus 2: Make “would come” a perfect infinitve.

DUCEM VENTURUM ESSE VENISSE

Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc / Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. What epic poet is believed to have dictated this epitaph in 19 BC from his deathbed in Brundisium? Bonus: Duces refers to this poet's Aeneid. To what other works of this poet do the words pascua and rura refer?

VERGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO) | ECLOGUES (BUCOLICS) AND GEORGICS

What name is common to Odysseus’ faithful dog, the all-seeing guardian of Io, and the builder of Jason’s famous ship? Bonus: What name is common to the Muse of comedy and the “graceful” sister of Aglaea and Euphrosyne?

ARGUS | THALIA

In the first poem of Book I of the Amores, Ovid writes Par erat inferior versus; risisse Cupido / dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem. According to this couplet, what is Cupid said to have stolen? Bonus: According to this couplet, what besides stealing is Cupid said to have done?

ONE FOOT | LAUGHED

Which tense of the participle is often used in poetry to show purpose, intention or readiness? Bonus: Using a future active participle, say in Latin: “the dog comes to the kitchen with the intention of eating the food”.

FUTURE ACTIVE | CANIS CIBUM CONSUMPTURUS AD CULINAM VENIT

Ptolemy Philadelphus, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene are the three children of what ambitious couple, one a Roman triumvir, the other an Egyptian queen? Bonus: What son did Cleopatra bear from a previous relationship with Gaius Julius Caesar?

``` MARCUS ANTONIUS (MARC ANTONY) AND CLEOPATRA VIII CAESARION/PTOLEMY CAESAR ```

What current movie, based on a gritty comic book, might have its title translated into Latin as Urbs Peccati? Bonus: A pistor can be either a baker or what other profession related to wheat and grain? The word for this profession also happens to be the last name of the author of the Urbs Peccati comic books.

SIN CITY | MILLER

Using the deponent verb sequor, say (in Latin) to one person, “Follow me.” Bonus: Now, using the verb capiō say in Latin, “Do not take the toga away from me, girls!”

SEQUERE ME | A ME, PUELLAE, TOGAM CAPERE NOLITE!

What nephew of Toxeus and Plexippus fought with his uncles after killing the Calydonian Boar because he insisted on giving its precious hide to Atlanta? Bonus: The dispute with his uncles ended badly, with this nephew ultimately killing them both. Althea, this nephew’s mother, however, did not take this news of death well. Specifically, how did Althaea avenge the death of her slain brothers?

MELEAGER SHE TOSSED THE LOG THAT WAS TIED TO MELEAGER'S LIFE INTO A FIRE, CAUSING HIS DEATH (WHEN MELEAGER WAS A NEWBORN, THE FATES HAD APPEARED TO ALTHAEA AND REVEALED THAT A CERTAIN LOG WAS THE KEY TO HER SON'S LIFE

In what narrow mountain pass did Gavius Pontius and the Samnites trap the Roman army in 321 BC, during the Second Samnite War? Bonus: When the Roman army was forced to surrender, what humiliation did the soldiers have to suffer?

CAUDINE FORKS/FURCULAE CAUDINAE | PASSING UNDER A "YOKE" (OF SAMNITE SPEARS), STRIPPED OF THEIR ARMS AND WEAPONS

If you win this round you will probably leap out of your chair in exultation. The English noun exultation, as well as its cognate verb exult, derive from the Latin preposition ex and what verb meaning “to jump or leap”? Bonus: If you were exultantly proud and joyful, you would be elated; but please, try not to get too carried away by your glee. Both the English adjective elated and its cognate noun elation derive from the Latin preposition ex and what verb meaning “to bear or carry”?

SALIO (SALIRE, SALII/SALUI, SALTUS | FERO (FERRE, TULI/TETULI, LATUS)

What genre did the following authors write in common: Ammianus Marcellinus, Cornelius Nepos, Sallust, Tacitus and Livy? Bonus: What genre do these writers have in common: Perseus, Juvenal and Horace?

HISTORY | SATIRE

Who am I? I am the hero who gave the thugs Periphetes and Sciron (among others) a taste of their own medicine. After those adventures, I arrived in Athens and captured the Bull of Marathon. Luckily my father Aegeus recognized me soon after and saved me from drinking Medea’s poison. Eventually, I became his successor to the throne of Athens. Who am I?

THESEUS

Later in my life, I (Theseus) concocted a rather foolish plan with my pal Pirithous. We decided that each of us would marry a daughter of Zeus. What daughter of Zeus and Leda, who was raised in Sparta, did we kidnap when she was only 12? Another fellow would also carry this girl away several years later because she was considered the most beautiful woman in the world.

HELEN

What was the primary job function of a lanista? Bonus: Hopefully, the lanista did their job particularly well when training the fighters known as andabatae. What specific disadvantage did an andabata have to overcome when fighting?

TO TRAIN GLADIATORS (FOR FIGHTNING IN THE GLADIATORIAL GAMES) THE FIGHTER COULD NOT SEE/HAD TO FIGHT WHILE BLIND-FOLDED

At various times, Coronis, Marpessa, Cyrene, Hyacinthus, Cassandra and Daphne were all objects of what Olympian deity’s affection? Bonus: This god's love affair with Coronis ended disastrously when the crow tattled on her affair with a mortal man. In a jealous rage, this god killed Coronis but snatched their unborn infant son from her body. Who was this boy who ultimately became the world’s greatest physician and the god of medicine?

PHOEBUS APOLLO | ASCLEPIUS/AESCULAPIUS

Which of the following phrases is an example of the ablative of “time within which” construction: prima aestate, tribus diebus, multos annos, postera hora? Bonus: Now translate into English the other three time-related expressions listed above.

TRIBUS DIEBUS- IN THREE DAYS PRIMA AESTATE- EARLY IN THE SUMMER/AT THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER, MULTOS ANNOS- FOR MANY YEARS, POSTERA HORA- IN THE FOLLOWING HOUR

What Olympian goddess lent a chariot drawn by winged dragons to a man named Triptolemus, who flew through the air sewing corn and teaching people how to cultivate the fields? Bonus: This goddess helped Triptolemus and several other mortals when she wandered the earth after Persephone’s abduction. What city in particular showed her great hospitality and became famous throughout the ancient world as the site of her mysteries?

DEMETER/CERES | ELEUSIS

Wealthy Roman men had a type of slave who would walk behind the master and quietly prompt him in case he had forgotten the name of anyone who greeted him. What is the name for such a slave? Bonus: To our eyes, Roman masters must have resembled NBA superstars with their constant posse of attendants accompanying their every move in public. What was the name for the posse of slaves who cleared the way in front of their master if he chose to travel by foot that day?

NOMENCLATOR | ANTEAMBULO

Translate the following Latin sentence into English: Est mirabile auditu! Bonus: Now translate this sentence into Latin, using only FOUR alliterative words: “Vitellius came to see the cow.”

IT IS WONDERFUL TO HEAR! | VITELLIUS VACCAM VISUM VENIT

Who am I? I am a gentleman of Verona, and an accomplished Neoteric lyric poet. While I enjoy sitting around writing clever little lines of poetry with my buddy Licinius Calvus, nothing brings me greater joy (or anguish) than my girlfriend Clodia. Who am I? Bonus: Scholars classify the above poet as an Alexandrian or Neoteric poet because of his short but learned and elegant writing style. What librarian and poet, whose poems this poet mentions translating in Carmen 65 for his friend Hortalus, is the “father” of the Alexandrian school of poetry?

(GAIUS VALERIUS) CATULLUS | CALLIMACHUS/BATTIADES (AN ALTERNATE, LITERARY NAME FOR CALLIMACHUS DERIVED FROM THE NAME OF CYRENE'S FOUNDER, BATTUS)

The motto of South Carolina is "While I breathe, I hope". What is it's Latin form? Bonus: What is the Latin motto of North Carolina, which translates into English as “to be rather than to seem”?

DUM SPIRO, SPERO | ESSE QUAM VIDERI

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