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Lines 1.14-1.26

Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals 1.14-26

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5. Translate this verse and tell me it's author: Exegi monumentum aere perennius . I have a built a monument more lasting than bronze. Horace.
Bonus 1: In what work did Horace say this line? The Odes.
Bonus 2: In that same poem, what does Horace consider his greatest poetic achievement to be? To have adapted Greek meter to Latin poetry.
6. The perfect tense tetuli makes its appearance in Plautus, but how would Cicero have written it? Tuli .
Bonus: 1 If tetuli had survived it would have made fero what type of verb? A reduplicative.
Bonus 2: Petronius is famous for odd verb forms. How would Cicero have written his f ellitus sum ? Falsus sum.
7. The games that Aeneas held in Sicily were in honor of whom? Anchises.
Bonus 1: In which book of the Aeneid does these games occur? 5.
Bonus 2: Who was the Trojan king of Eryx who entertained Aeneas and his followers during their stay in Sicily? Acestes.
8. 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? Elagabalus.
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? Iulia Domna.
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? Aurelius.
9. A few unfortunates in the ancient world were marked out for special punishment in the Underworld. What was the crime and punishment of Ixion? He tried to seduce Hera and was tied to a turning wheel for eternity.

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Lines 1.14-1.26

Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals 1.14-26

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5. Translate this verse and tell me it's author: Exegi monumentum aere perennius . I have a built a monument more lasting than bronze. Horace.
Bonus 1: In what work did Horace say this line? The Odes.
Bonus 2: In that same poem, what does Horace consider his greatest poetic achievement to be? To have adapted Greek meter to Latin poetry.
6. The perfect tense tetuli makes its appearance in Plautus, but how would Cicero have written it? Tuli .
Bonus: 1 If tetuli had survived it would have made fero what type of verb? A reduplicative.
Bonus 2: Petronius is famous for odd verb forms. How would Cicero have written his f ellitus sum ? Falsus sum.
7. The games that Aeneas held in Sicily were in honor of whom? Anchises.
Bonus 1: In which book of the Aeneid does these games occur? 5.
Bonus 2: Who was the Trojan king of Eryx who entertained Aeneas and his followers during their stay in Sicily? Acestes.
8. 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? Elagabalus.
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? Iulia Domna.
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? Aurelius.
9. A few unfortunates in the ancient world were marked out for special punishment in the Underworld. What was the crime and punishment of Ixion? He tried to seduce Hera and was tied to a turning wheel for eternity.