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Lines 1.11-1.18
Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Three 1.11-18
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Bonus: Please explain the grammar of eundo in that last line (repeat if necessary). Gerund, ablative of means (or manner).
7. Who am I? I was tribune in 57 B. C. and worked for Cicero's recall from exile. During the 50's I led a faction in the city riots while I rose through the curus honorum . In 52 B. C. I removed my chief enemy, but failed in my bid to become consul. I was brought to trial and, though Cicero defended, was convicted and went into exile at Massilia. (T. Annius) Milo.
Bonus: Milo did not die in Massilia. Describe the circumstances of his death. He returned to Italy during the civil war and was killed attempting revolution.
8. The "Proverbs of Seneca," an apocryphal collection from the Middle Ages, is full of good advice. Please translate this one: Bonum est non laudari, sed esse laudabilem. It is good not to be praised, but to be praiseworthy.
Bonus: Here's another: Bonis nocet qui malis parcit. He harms the good (people) who spares the evil.
9. Many excavations of republican and imperial houses reveal cultic meeting places of an eastern god, some 35 known from Rome itself. Typically these meeting places had an altar on a young man was depicted plunging a dagger into the flank of a bull. Who was this young man, the center of the cult worship? Mithras.
Bonus: Mithraism was only one of the eastern religions that spread throughout the Roman Empire. What rival cult was centered around an Egyptian goddess, whose name means "mistress of the house of life"? Isis.
10. Translate and give me the use of the subjunctive in this sentence: Scio nonnullos esse qui mihi nocere temptaverint. I know that some tried to harm me. Subjunctive in subordinate clause within indirect speech.