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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round One 1.1-4
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Bonus: Which of the verbs above (i. e. moror, morior, fruor, and vescor) take an object in the ablative? Fruor and vescor.
2. Responde latine. Quot cohortes in legione sunt ? Decem.
Bonus: Responde latine. Quot centuriones in cohorte ? Sex.
3. Had his men not let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, Odysseus might have made it home from Troy in the first year of his voyage. What was it that the sailors let out of the bag? The winds.
Bonus: What god of the winds gave the bag to Odysseus? Aeolus.
4. The decisive battle between Pompey and Caesar occurred at Pharsalus in 48 B. C. After his defeat, Pompey fled to Alexandria. How was he received there? He was killed (by order of Ptolemy).
Bonus: Whom did Caesar attempt to reinstate on the throne of Egypt after he pursued Pompey to Alexandria? Cleopatra.
5. What part of speech are the names of months in Latin? Adjectives.
Bonus: What months have the Ides on the 15th? March, May, July, October.
6. What is unusual about verbs of favoring, helping, pleasing, and trusting with regard to their grammatical usage? Their objects are in the dative case.
Bonus: Give four other type of verbs that would take the dative. Opposites of those above, believe, persuade, command, obey, serve, resist, envy, threaten, pardon, and spare.
7. In a Roman household, what was the special duty of a coquus ? Cooking
Bonus: Translate quid coquitur ? What's cooking?
8. What famous creature sprang from the blood of Medusa? Pegasus.
Bonus: What god was reputed to have sired Pegasus? Poseidon/Neptune.
9. Hamilcar Barca expanded Carthage's empire by conquering parts of Spain. He also fathered one of the greatest generals the world has seen. Who was this Carthaginian general? Hannibal.