Latin
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Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals 1.44-58
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16. What do the Latin nouns coma and crinis mean? Hair . Bonus 1: What is your frons? Forehead . Bonus 2: What are your supercilia? Eyebrows . 17. In what Roman province would you find the city Alesia? Gaul . Bonus 1: In what province would you find Munda? Spain . Bonus 2: Where would you find Thapsus? Africa . 18. What general took over the command against Mithridates by the lex Manilia? Pompey . Bonus 1: From whom did he take it over? Lucullus . Bonus 2: What handsome Roman youth had led the mutiny against Lucullus as prelude to the loss of his command? P. Clodius Pulcher. 19. Why is humus an unusual noun? It takes the locative /it's feminine. Bonus 1: How else is humus unusual? [Whatever they did say above]. Bonus 2: What other large category of 2nd declension nouns are feminine? The names of trees. 20. When recognized, perform the following command: Sta et primam partem fabulae de tribus porcis parvis mihi narra. Bonus 1: Now perform this command: Sta et primam partem fabulae de Nivea et septem homunculis narra mihi. Bonus 2: Now perform this command: Sta et narra mihi primam partem fabulae de Auricoma et tribus ursis.