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Lines 1.19-1.3
Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Three 1.19-3
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Bonus: Translate and give me the use of the subjunctive in this sentence: Nemo satis scit quid speret aut timeat. No one sufficiently knows what he should hope or fear. Subjunctive of indirect question or deliberative subjunctive.
11. For whom were these verses written: Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem. /Non enim rumores ponebat ante salutem ? (Q.) Fabius Maximus (Cunctator).
Bonus: Who wrote these lines? Ennius.
12. Who am I? I was born a girl, but after being raped by Poseiden, he offered to grant my any wish. I wished to become a man and was granted that wish. Caenis or Caeneus.
Bonus: What other boon did Poseiden grant me? Invulnerability.
13. Tiberius did not have a happy family. His sons died before they could suceed him, victims of what malicious praetorian prefect? Sejanus.
Bonus: Sejanus wished to marry into the imperial family and did succeed in seducing what sister of Claudius and wife of Tiberius' son Drusus? Livilla.
14. In how many declensions are both feminine and masculine nouns found? All five.
Bonus: What declensions have no neuter nouns? First and Fifth.
15. Bacchus is not really the Roman name for Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. Bacchus, in fact, is simply another Greek name for Dionysus. With what purely Roman god was he associated? Liber (Pater).
Bonus: Give me the name for Liber Pater's main festival and the month in which it occurs. Liberalia /March.
16. You're in the countryside, looking at a beautiful landscape. You say to your friend, Locus est amoenius . Now change that to the plural. Loca sunt amoenia.
Bonus: Now distinguish between the plural nominatives loca and loci . Generally loca refers to places, loci to passages in a book.