# Finals 1.1-4

Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals, Lines 1.1-1.4. Latin.

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Bonus 1:Give the word in its nominative and genitive plural along with its plural meaning. Fines, finium / country, territory, land.
Bonus 2:Give another Latin word with the meaning "territory." Ager, agri; regio, regionis.
2. I was a legate during the year 109 during the Jurgurthine War. Two years later I became consul. I abolished the property qualification for the army, thus recruiting volunteers. I captured Jurgurtha, but am perhaps even better know for my conflict with the man who was then my senior legate, Sulla. Marius
Bonus 1:Marius was helped in achieving the consulship in that he had married advantageously a patrician named Julia. What relation was this woman to Julius Caesar? His aunt.
Bonus 2:What famous comment did Sulla once make about Caesar that pertained to his uncle by marriage? "I see many a Marius in him".
3. What Roman magistrate was assigned the task of keeping the streets clean. Additionally he had to entertain the public and host annual games? Aedile.
Bonus 1:If a politician skipped the aedileship, what next office in the cursus honorum did he seek? Praetorship.
Bonus 2:What are the three traditional offices of the cursus honorum ? Quaestor, praetor, consul.
4. What beast of mythology is, according to Homer, "lion in front, snake behind, and she-goat in the middle"? Chimaera.
Bonus 1:What creature often associated with Egypt had the body of a lion and the head of a human and sometimes wings? The Sphinx.
Bonus 2:After answering her question correctly, who killed the sphinx that was tormenting Thebes? Oedipus.
5. In America, it's usually only little children who say the word "beautifuler," but that was not the case in Rome. What perfectly correct Latin word conveys the same idea? Pulchrior/pulchrius.

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