Latin
Lines 1.1-1.17
Virginia Certamen Questions, All Four Rounds 1.1-17
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Round 4
1) Toss-Up: The shortest poem of Catullus is only two lines long and begins Odi et amo . Translate this phrase. "I HATE AND I LOVE"
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? FIO, FIERI, FACTUS SUM -"BE MADE, BECOME, HAPPEN"
2) Toss-Up: In Book II of Vergil's Aeneid ,Venus explains to Aeneas : Iam summas arces Tritonia, respice, Pallas/ insedit . Who is this Tritonia Pallas ? ATHENA/MINERVA
Bonus: Venus also tells: Neptunus muros magnoque emota tridenti/ fundamenta quatit . What power of Neptune is being shown? EARTHQUAKES
3) Toss-Up: What is the difference between salutatio and laudatio ?
SALUTATIO -"GREETING BY CLIENTS IN THE MORNING" and LAUDATIO -"PRAISE OF THE DECEASED AT A FUNERAL"
Bonus: What is the difference between conclamatio and lustratio ? CONCLAMATIO -"CALLING NAME OF THE DEAD AT FUNERAL" and LUSTRATIO -"CEREMONY AT WHICH CHILD RECEIVED NAME"
4) Toss-Up: On his deathbed, Vergil ordered the unfinished Aeneid to be destroyed, but, instead, Augustus ordered what two individuals to polish and publish it? VARIUS AND TUCCA
Bonus: What fourth century AD Latin grammarian published a vaulable commentary on the works of Vergil? DONATUS
5) Toss-up: What nymph on Mt. Ida foretold to Paris that he would leave her, abduct Helen, and destroy Troy? OENONE
Bonus: By what other name was Paris known? ALEXANDER or ALEXANDROS
6) Toss-Up: Identify the common bond: suavium ,basium ,osculum . WORDS FOR A KISS
Bonus: Identify the kissers and the kissed in the following lines: Tum pavidae tectis matres ingentibus errant,/ amplexaeque tenent postes atque oscula figunt. TROJAN WOMEN WERE KISSING COLUMNS
7) Toss-up: Distinguish between ludi and munera .