# Round Three 1.1-9

Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Three, Lines 1.1-1.9. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/virginia-certamen-questions/round-three-14/1.1

Bonus: What is the name of that construction? Ablative of degree of difference
2. When the Romans wanted to humiliate a defeated enemy, what custom did they have for those who had surrendered? Subjugation/placing under the yolk.
Bonus: What Numidian king made the Roman army of Albinus walk under the yoke and lived to regret it when he was captured by Marius in 106 B.C.? Jugurtha.
3. What was the food and drink of the gods is a commonly asked question, and as we all know it was nectar and ambrosia. However, do you know what Greek god introduced a new drink to the his fellow deities? The Latin name for this new concoction is vinum . Dionysus.
Bonus: What was unusual about Bacchus' birth? His mother was killed before he was born, and so he grew in Zeus' thigh.
4. White is the traditional color for brides in America. In ancient Rome, however, it was something like saffron. American brides wear their rings on the third (some say fourth) finger of their left hands. Where did Roman brides wear them? on the same finger
Bonus: What words did a Roman bride recite at her wedding? Ubi tu Gaius, ego Gaia.
5. The Latin verb partire is to share, and it provides the basis for what part of speech that shares the functions of a verb and an adjective? Participle.
Bonus: Name the Latin participles. present active, perfect passive, future active, future passive/gerundive.
6. Deponent verbs are a bit unusual, doing the most unexpected things at times. What is a little odd about the future passive participle of a deponent verb? It has a passive meaning.
Bonus: Give the participles and meanings from hortor. hortans - encouraging, urging; hortatus -having encouraged; hortaturus - about to/intending to encourage; hortandus -to be encouraged.

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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Three. Text: The Latin Library (thelatinlibrary.com), used with permission. Changes: HTML markup removed and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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