# Round Three 1.1-10

Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Three, Lines 1.1-1.10. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/virginia-certamen-questions/round-three-16/1.1

Bonus: Using a participle, say in Latin "Having delayed a little while, the soldiers left camp". Paulum (paulisper, aliquamdiu) morati, milites e castris excesserunt (ierunt, etc.)
2. What did Philoctetes receive as a reward for lighting Hercules' funeral pyre? Hercules' bow and arrow.
Bonus: Philoctetes sailed with the Greeks to Troy, but was marooned at Lemnos due to a rancid wound he had recieved from a snake bite. Later, when the Greeks begged him to rejoin them, he refused until Hercules, now a god, appeared and promised that he would be healed if he joined the Greeks and that with his arrows he would kill what Trojan? Paris.
3. What right did Roman citizens have by virture of the ius honorum ? The right to hold public office.
Bonus: What right did they have by virtue of the i us imaginis ? T he right to place the death masks of their ancestors in their atria and carry them in funerals . [Anything close on this one is acceptable].
4. What two major sources did Livy use for his account of the Hannibalic War? Fabius Pictor and Polybius.
Bonus:It looks like Livy originally meant only to cover the history of Rome down to 43 B.C., when the liberty of the Roman people ended with the death of Cicero. But Livy lived on and so kept writing. With the events of what year did he finally finish his work? 9 B.C.
5. Distinguish faveo and foveo . To favor / to foster, cherish.
Bonus:Distinguish malus and malus (long -a). Evil, bad / mast of a ship.
6. In Book IV of the Aeneid what does Vergil describe as rushing through the cities of Africa, a malum qua non aliud velocius ullum / mobilitate viget, viresque adquirit eundo , a monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui, quot sunt corpore plumae / tot vigiles oculi subter ? Rumor (or Fama).

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