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Virginia Certamen Questions, Finals 1.20-33
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Bonus 2: The doors of this temple were closed to signify that Rome was at peace with all her enemies. After what event in the late republic were the doors of the temple closed? The Battle of Actium.
8. Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus were the first two consuls of Rome. What is the Roman term for the name that they have in common? Praenomen.
Bonus 1: What were their gens or clan names? Junius and Tarquinius.
Bonus 2: What is the term for the names by which we usually refer to them, Brutus and Collatinus. Cognomen (cognomina).
9. Give the Latin form and the English meaning of the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative of the verb from which we get the English word vulnerable. Vulneraverat /he had wounded.
Bonus 1: Now make that passive: "he had been wounded". Vulneratus erat.
Bonus 2: Now the same for the future passive. Vulnerabitur.
10. Translate the following sentence: Marcus Sextum de fenestra iecit. Marcus threw Sextus out of the window.
Bonus 1: Give the Latin root and English meaning of our word "celerity." Celeritas -swiftness, speed.
Bonus 2: Give the Latin noun for our word pulchritude, meaning beauty. Pulchritudo.
11. A very famous mosaic discovered in the House of the Faun in Pompeii shows a dog and a Latin inscription. What is the Latin inscription and its English meaning? Cave canem, Beware of the dog.
Bonus 1: The House of the Faun is so called because of a statue of a Faun in the courtyard. What is a faun? Half man, half goat.
Bonus 2: What famous faun invented the musical instrument of shepherds' pipes? Pan.
12. Between 264 and 146 B. C. Rome waged what series of wars against another major power in the Mediterranean? The Punic Wars.