Latin
Lines 1.6-1.25
Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals 1.6-25
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Bonus 1: Make pulchrior superlative. Pulcherriumus/a.
Bonus 2: I don't know whether little kids might say "suitable-er". I doubt it. I doubt Roman kids tried it either, though they might have. How did Roman adults say "more suitable"? Magis idoneus.
6. Responde Latine. Quis dixit "Speculum, speculum in muro. Quis pulcherrima omnium est?" Regina (mala in "Nivea").
Bonus 1: Yes, it was the queen in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves." Of those septem homunculi, who were Medicus, Laetus, et Somniculosus ? Doc, Happy, and Sleepy.
Bonus 2: What about "Querens ?" Grumpy.
7. Well, we'll move away from our modern mythology back to some ancient. If Clytemnestra had had a magic mirror and had asked it who was the fairest of them all in her day, what would the mirror have told her? Helen.
Bonus 1: In what two ways were Helen and Clytemnestra related? They were sisters and sisters-in-law.
Bonus 2: We don't know whether Clytemnestra was jealous of her sister, but she didn't take kindly to her husband's being gone at Troy for ten years and coming home with a Trojan princess. Who was the princess who was killed by this jealous wife? Cassandra.
8. The suicide of what wife of Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus led to the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome by Lucius Junius Brutus? Lucretia.
Bonus 1: What was the full name of the king that Brutus drove from Rome? Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.
Bonus 2: What Etruscan ruler did Tarquin the Proud enlist to help him retake Rome? Lars Porsenna.
9. What art-form, composed of tesserae and glue or cement, did the Romans perfect? Mosaics.
Bonus 1: In reference to the question above, what is a tessera ? A small piece of stone, wood, glass; tile.