Latin
Lines 1.21-1.38
Virginia Certamen Questions, Round One 1.21-38
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12. What is unusual about the verb odi, odisse ? It has perfect forms only but no perfect tenses. (Prompt for more).
Bonus: What other verb, with what meaning, acts the same way? Memini /to remember.
13. What adverb with what meaning is at the root of "procrastinate"? Cras /tomorrow.
Bonus: What are the principal parts of the verb at the root of that word? teneo, tenere, tenui, tentum.
14. What member of the Second Triumvirate attempted to woo Octavian's soldiers away from him during the campaign in Sicily in 36 B. C. and was removed from power for the effort? Lepidus.
Bonus: Octavian was campaigning at the time against the last of the sons of Pompey. What was his name? Sextus Pompeius.
15. What do the following having in common? hasta, balista, saggita, gladius. They are all weapons.
Bonus: A soldier's shield was technically not a weapon, though clearly part of his arma. What is the Latin word for shield? Scutum.
16. What do we call the region the Romans knew as Cisalpine Gaul? The Po Valley (northern Italy).
Bonus: What region was Mauritania? Morocco.
17. What two gods helped build the walls of Troy? Apollo and Poseidon.
Bonus: What ancestor of Aeneas helped them? Abacus .
18. Who issued the Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity in the Roman Empire? Constantine.
Bonus: What emperor went further and made Christianity the only permissible religion of the Empire? Theodosius (the Great).
19. This author is famous for many works, but was exiled from Rome by Augustus probably because of his Ars Amatoria . Who was it? Ovid.
Bonus: Ovid's most famous work is his Metamorphoses . What other author also wrote a work called the Metamorphoes or sometimes Asinus aureus ? Apuleius.