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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Three 1.1-11
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2. Which of the following does not belong and why: cubiculum, peristylum, tablinum, lectus, culina. Lectus because it is not a room in a house.
Bonus: Define these words (repeat twice if necessary). Bedroom, courtyard (portico), study, bed, kitchen.
3. I am of the most frequently portrayed figures in Western literature, king of Ithaca, son of Laertes and Anticleia, and father of Telemachus. Odysseus .
Bonus: Odysseus traveled for 10 years before reaching home, but almost 9 of those years were spent on the island of this nymph. Calypso.
4. What year is this? Julius Caesar is deified. Octavian vows a temple to Mars Ultor. Brutus and Cassius commit suicide after their defeat by Antony and Octavian at the Battle of Philippi. 41 B. C.
Bonus: After Philippi, the triumvirs divided the empire between them. Octavian took the West, Antony the East. Who was the third member of the Triumvirate and what did he receive? Lepidus /Africa.
5. Translate this sentence: Vidimus viros domo currentes. We saw (or see) men running from the house.
Bonus: If we wanted to say "We saw the men who had been killed" and only wanted to use one word for "who had been killed", what word would we use? necatos, occisos, caesos, etc.
6. I was born in Athens and grew up to become a great craftsman, trained by Athena herself. When I killed my apprentice Talus, I was exiled from Athen and took refuge with King Minos in Crete, where I built for him a great maze in the basement of the palace. Daedalus.
Bonus: After my son Icarus died, I flew to this city, where I dedicated my wings to Apollo. Cumae.
7. What figure of the Late Republic had a short but disgraceful career in politics, thoroughly plundering a province as its governor, before settling down to write histories in his garden? Sallust.