# Round Three 1.27-35

Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Three, Lines 1.27-1.35. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/virginia-certamen-questions/round-three-14/1.27

18. What Athenian prince contributed to his father's death by his own carelessness in forgetting to hoist the proper sails on his return from Crete where he had killed the minotaur? Theseus.
Bonus: Who was his father, how did he die, and what geographical name do we have from that? Aegeus, he leapt into the sea, the Aegean Sea.
19. Divide the number of Vestal Virgins into the minimum number of years a Vestal had to serve, et responde Latine. Quinque.
Bonus: What was the punishment for impurity in a Vestal? She was buried alive.
20. The verbs volo, nolo, and malo follow a similar pattern. This should be no surprise, since nolo and malo both use volo as a root. Of what two phrases, with their literal meanings, are these verbs contractions? Non volo - not to want/I do not want; magis volo - to want more/I want more.
Bonus: Conjugate volo completely in the present indicative. Volo, vis, vult, volumus, vultus, volunt.

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