Latin
Lines 1.17-1.38
Virginia Certamen Questions, Round One 1.17-38
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Bonus: Now I'm in a large city, looking out over the ocean. I see Pharos close by, and the famous Museum is to my rear, where great scholars work. Alexandria.
14. How does Latin introduce a positive purpose clause? Ut.
Bonus: How does Lati introduce a negative result clause? Ut . . . non.
15. Each Cyclops had a single eye, but who were those poor old sisters who had to share a single eye among them? The Graiae.
Bonus: What other body part did each of the Graiae have only one of? Tooth.
16. A great scholar during the empire wrote an enormous encyclopedia before his death during rescue operations near Vesuvius. Who was he? Pliny the Elder.
Bonus: Pliny the Elder also wrote a history of recent wars the Romans had conducted. What wars did this lost history describe? The German Wars.
17. Gotta love those participles! Translate the participle form in the following sentence: "I am about to see this movie". Visurus, -a.
Bonus: What tense makes use of this future active participle? Future active periphrastic.
18. The name of the months are nouns in English. What part of speech are they in Latin? Adjectives.
Bonus: The words "yesterday," "today," and "tomorrow" are adverbs in English. What part of speech are they in Latin? Adverbs.
19. To avenge the assassination of his adopted father, Octavian vowed a temple to what god in 42 B. C., which he built many years later. Mars (Ultor).
Bonus: If Mars were a woman, we wouldn't say Mars Ultor but rather Mars . . . what? Ultrix.
20. The entire 5th declension has only 3 or 4 words in common use. Give me the nominative and genitive singular of the 5th declension noun used in many idioms such as "grain," "deeds," "revolution," and "republic"? Res, -ei.