# Finals 1.29-41

Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals, 1.29 to 1.41. Latin.

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Bonus 2: Well, that wouldn't have worked well after the Republic fell. They used the year of the emperor's rule instead. What would be, in our reckoning, the 4th year of Tiberius' rule? A.D. 18. 11. Four verbs have irregular singular imperatives. I just want two of them. Fero, facere, ducere, dicere. Bonus 1: But now I want the other two. Bonus 2: One of them is irregular in the plural. Which one and what is its form? Fero, ferte. 12. Most everyone thinks the Roman Empire "fell" in 476 A.D., but actually Roman emperors continued to rule in the East in unbroken succession until the year Constantinople was finally captured by the Turks. What year was that? 1453 . Bonus 1: There were even Roman emperors again in the West, after a lapse of about 325 years. Who was the next Roman Emperor in the West after 476 A.D.? Charlemagne . Bonus 2: Charlemagne saw himself as the Emperor of the Romans, but the revived Empire in the West has received a slightly different name from historians. What was this Empire, which lasted thousand years from Charlemagn's coronation in 800 A.D. until it's abolition by Napoleon in 1806? Holy Roman Empire. 13. How would you translate the participle in the following sentence: Suos hortatus, Caesar equum suum incitavit. Having encouraged (urged). Bonus1: Translate the participle in this sentence: Cicero locuturus discessit. About to speak. Bonus 2: Translate the participle in this sentence: Livius fabulam de regibus expulsis narravit. Expelled . 14. From whom did the Roman borrow the arch, gladitorial combats, the triumph and the toga? Etruscans . Bonus 1: The first gladiatorial combats were given at what kind of event? A funeral. Bonus 2: In the old-style family, who typically was responsible for making togas? The mother.

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