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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Four 1.1-35
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2 nd ANNUAL CAPITAL CERTAMEN FEBRUARY 2002
Sponsored by the Maryland Senior Classical League
LEVEL III &IV
ROUND IV
1. Translate the relative clause in the following sentence with a participial phrase. We saw the men who were coming to the forum. VENIENTES AD FORUM
A. Translate the participle now: We saw the men who were about to come to the forum. VENTUROS
B. Now use a relative clause and translate the whole sentence. We saw the men who were coming out of the forum. VIROS VIDIMUS (VIDEBAMUS) QUI EX FORO VENIEBANT
2. Which Roman king founded a settlement on the Palatine Hill? ROMULUS
A. Which of the seven kings of Rome was, as a child, the slave of a king? SERVIUS TULLIUS
B. Which Roman king was the first to take a census? SERVIUS TULLIUS
3. What Shakespearean play would the Romans have called Somnium Mediae Noctis?
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
A. In the play-within-a-play in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a mythological love story is performed. Who are the lovers in this story, which features a dangerous lioness and a mulberry bush?
PYRAMUS AND THISBE
B. Another Shakespearean play draws from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe for its entire plot. Name this play. ROMEO AND JULIET
4. Quid est? It was a mythological creature whose blood was toxic. It lived in Lernea. Juno sent a crab to try to keep anyone from killing it; the crab was defeated but became the constellation Cancer. Every time one of its nine heads was cut off, another two grew back. HYDRA
A. Killing the hydra was Heracles' second labor. What was his first? KILLING THE NEMEAN LION
B. Who gave Heracles his labors? EURYSTHEUS
5. Name Ovid's most famous work. METAMORPHOSES
A. For what literary form is Martial best known? EPIGRAMS
B. During what age of literature did Ovid write? GOLDEN AGE/AUGUSTAN AGE
6. Use an ablative construction to say in Latin, "The son is taller than the father."
FILIUS ALTIOR PATRE EST
A. Translate the sentence again, without an ablative. FILIUS EST ALTIOR QUAM PATER
B. Now use an ablative to say, "The mothers are smaller than the daughters."