# Finals 1.16-28

Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals, 1.16 to 1.28. Latin.

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Bonus 1: Give me the principals parts of audeo. audeo, audere, ausus sum Bonus 2: Give me the principals parts of fido. fido, fidere, fisus sum 7. Who was Emperor when Christ was crucified? Tiberius . Bonus 1: Who was emperor when Christ was born? Augustus . Bonus 2: Who was emperor when the Peter and Paul were martyred? Nero . 8. What playwright who lived through the dark days of the 2nd Punic War nevertheless wrote some of the best Roman comedies? Plautus . Bonus 1: What writer immortalized the scandals of the Julio-Claudian emperors in a series of biographies? Suetonius . Bonus 2: What writer of the High Empire stole the name of Ovid's greatest work and told the tale of Lucius transformed? Apuleius . 9. Plato thought I was the first king of Atlantis. Homer though I was the father of Calypso. Hesiod thought I lived on the edge of the world, perhaps in Africa where a mountain range bears my name. My brother Prometheus sent Hercules too me, who talked me into fetching the golden apples of Hesperides. Who am I? Atlas . Bonus 1: Prometheus, of course, had his own problems, offering an unwilling feast every day to what type of bird? Eagle . Bonus 2: Prometheus the Titan wasn't the only one punished for stealing fire from the gods. What "gift" did Zeus have Hephaestus fashion and present to Prometheus' brother? Pandora . 10. Caesar, we say, was killed in 44 B.C. But no one connected to that event would ever have said such a thing. In what year A.U.C. was he killed? 710 . Bonus 1: Many Romans wouldn't even have been so literate as to count the year from the founding of the city. What was the normal method of dating years in the Republic? By the names of the consuls.

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