Latin
Lines 1.27-1.37
Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals 1.27-37
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Bonus: 1: How was Ixion tricked? Zeus formed a cloud in Hera's likeness.
Bonus: 2: Ixion had once been the proud king of what region of Greece? Thessaly.
10. Tombstone Latin is sometimes grim. Translate this inscription found on a Roman gravestone near a road: Viator, viator! Quod tu es, ego fui; quod nunc sum, et tu eris . Traveller, traveller! What you are, I was; what I am now, you also will be.
Bonus 1: This fellow must have a delightful soul with a keen sense of humor. Translate his tomb inscripton: Vixi quem ad modum volui; quare mortuus sum, nescio. I lived how I wanted; why I'm dead I don't know.
Bonus: 2This inscription, a common one, may have a Christian meaning: Ego cum eo eo eo . I am going there with him.
11. Who am I? I was a disciple of Plato and brought my master to Syracuse in 367. I was banished later by the tyrant of Syracuse, but then returned in 357, captured Syracuse and ruled there off and on until my assassination in 357. You all know so much about me because Plutarch wrote my biography. Dion.
Bonus 1: Which Dionysius was this, the First or Second? First.
Bonus 2: In his parallel lives, Plutarch matched Dion with this historical figure, a man who also fought against tranny and created chaos in his homeland. Brutus.
12. What author established hexameter as the meter for Roman poetry? Lucilius.
Bonus 1: Well, we don't have much poetry of Lucilius, but we have a number of Satires of Juvenal? In fact, how many have come down to us? 16.
Bonus 2: One of these Satires is a famous tirade against women. Which one was it? Satire VI.