Latin
Lines 1.18-1.36
Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals 1.18-36
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Bonus 1: What son of Odyssius and Penelope stayed at home during the war? Telemachus.
Bonus 2: Where was the kingdom of Odysseus? Ithaca.
Participles got their name from the Latin verb to share, because they share the characteristics of what two parts of speech? Verb /adjective.
Bonus 1: What declension pattern do present participles follow? 3rd.
Bonus 2: Here's a 50/50 question. Are present participles i-stems (i. e. ,do they have a -ium in their genitive plural)? Yes.
Pompey built the first permanent one in Rome. Balbus erected one soon after. Then Augustus built one for Marcellus. What were these popular buildings? Theaters.
Bonus 1: Pompey's theater was the scene of what famous political event? Assassination of Caesar.
Bonus 2: Which of these theaters -Pompey's, Bablus' or Marcellus' -can still be seen standing in Rome? Marcellus'.
In the phrase "This is the animal which I saw in the forest", what would be the form of the relative pronoun? Quod.
Bonus 1: What is the gender, case and number of quod ? Neuter accusative singular.
Bonus 2: Change quod to plural. Quae.
We are three old women, right feared by all. We spin, measure and then cut the thread of life. Who are we? The Fates /Parcae. Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the measurer), Atropos (the cutter).
Bonus 1: Name them. Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos.
Bonus 2: Now tell me which one spun, which measures, which cut. Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the measurer), Atropos (the cutter).
pons :pontium ::dux : ________. Ducum.
Bonus 1: Speaking of dux and its related words, what two forms can duci be? Dative of dux, passive infinitive of duco.
Bonus 2: dux :ducibus ::manus : . Manibus.
Well, let's continue that in another field. Theseus is to Ariadne as Jason is to this person. Medea.