# Round One 1.27-36

Virginia Certamen Questions, Round One, Lines 1.27-1.36. Latin.

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Bonus: Who were the elderly couple who escaped punishment, and what was their reward? Baucis and Philemon (who became guards of a temple and) turned into intertwining trees.
15. Who in Rome wore the toga picta ? Victorious generals.
Bonus: What color was this toga? Purple.
16. Latin students must often learn the special declension of the two nouns mare and animal . What is the grammatical designation of these two words? Third declension, neuter, I-stems.
Bonus: Decline mare completely. mare, maris, mari, mare, mari, maria, marium, maribus, maria, maribus.
17. What is the modern equivalent of a praetor ? Judge.
Bonus: What about a quaestor ? Treasurer (or equivalent).
18. Who had to go on pushing a rock up a hill ad infinitum in Hades? Sisyphus
Bonus:For what crime was he being punished? Cheating death (by not returning to the Underworld).
19. Quis sum? Sum filia deae antiquae. Ambulabam in campis, ubi frater meae matris me cepit et me ad infernos duxit. Prosperpina / Persephone.
Bonus: Quis erat frater matris Proserpinae, qui puellam cepit? Pluto.
20. Quot sunt bis decem? Viginti.
Bonus: Quot sunt quinquaginta minus viginti quinque plus tres? Duodetriginta.

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