# Finals 1.1-13

Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals, 1.1 to 1.13. Latin.

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Bonus1: Where would you find the cities Ilerda, Gades, and Corduba? Spain . Bonus 2: Where would you find the cities Pergamum, Smyrna, and Ephesus? Asia (Minor). 2. With what great confederation of tribes did Rome fight a long series of war between 340 and 285 B.C. resulting in their conquest of the moutainous interior of Italy? Samnites . Bonus 1: The Romans were not always successful. What was the name of the area where a Roman army was surrounded by the Samnites in 323 B.C. and forced to surrender? The Caudine Forks. Bonus 2: When the Samnites wars were over, it wasn't long before the Romans faced a more dangerous antagonist in Southern Italy, who always defeated them but could never win the decisive victory. Who was he? Pyrrhus . 3. Who was the son of Agenor who, following a cow, founded a city where it laid down. Cadmus . Bonus: What was the city that Cadmus founded? Thebes . Bonus 2: In what region of Greece was Thebes located? Boeotia . 4. Participles yet again. Listen carefully to this sentence: Ab oppido discessuri videmus hostes advenientes. What are the two tenses of the participles in that sentence? Future and present. Bonus: 1 Please translate that sentence. We, about to leave the town, saw the enemy arriving. Bonus 2: Now make everything singular in that sentence. Ab oppido discessurus (-a), video hostis advenientem. 5. Ancient warships weren't much for fighting. What was their standard weapon for sinking an enemy's ship? Ram . Bonus: 1 The Romans improved on this by use of a corvus. What kind of device was this? Boarding plank. Bonus: 1 Much later the Romans developed a frightening weapon to defend Constantinople against the Arabs, a secret weapon that burned on water and could not be extinguished. What was it called? Greek fire.

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