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Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals 1.18-44
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11. We all know the phrase cave canem . Now make that phrase plural. Cavete canes.
Bonus 1: Four verbs have irregular singular imperatives. Give me the forms, singular and plural, of two of those irregular imperatives. Fer, fac, duc, dic.
Bonus 2: Give me and other two.
12. Most everyone rejoiced when Domitian was slain. What great historian of that age hated Domitian for poisoning his father-in-law? Tacitus.
Bonus 1: Who was Tacitus' father-in-law, about whom he wrote a short biography? Agricola.
Bonus 2: Tacitus also wrote a short description of what people, with whom the Romans waged many wars during his lifetime? Germans.
13. How would you translate the participle in the following sentence: Haec locutae, feminae domo exierunt. Having spoken (said).
Bonus: Translate the participle in this sentence: Hoc facto Lucius ad villam rediit. (Having been) done.
Bonus 2: Translate the participle in this sentence: Femina virum necatura gladium sumpsit. About the kill, who was about to kill, etc.
14. We call them lawyers or attorneys. What did the Romans call the people that spoke on your behalf when you were called to court? Advocati .
Bonus 1: The fee that advocati could charge was regulated by law under the Republic. What was the amount of the fee? Nothing.
Bonus 2: In the Empire, lawyers were allowed to collect something for the efforts. What was their payment called? Honorarium /palmarium.
15. On our brochure for this Certamen you might have noticed the phrase "qui venerunt certatum". What part of grammar is "certatum". Supine.
Bonus 1: With what type of verbs can the accusative form of the supine be used? Verbs of motion.
Bonus 2: I've heard the "supine" described as a "verbal abstract". But the only two forms of it in use are patterned on what declension? 4Th.