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Bonus: What would be the present participle, nominative plural of morior? Morientes . 2. What was the bundle of rods called that was carried in front of a Roman magistrate? Fasces /fascis. Bonus: Who were the low-level public servants who carried the fasces. Lictores /lictors. 3. Which of the following is not masculine? auriga, mons, humus, pons? Humus . Bonus: Give the locative form of humus. Humi . 4. Who am I? My father, king of Thebes, was warned by an oracle that there was danger to his throne and life if I was allowed to grow up. He handed me over to a herdsman with orders to destroy me; but the herdsman, moved with pity, left me hanging on the branch of a tree. I was found by a peasant, who carried me to his master and mistress, by whom I was adopted and raised. Oedipus . Bonus: My adoptive parents also gave me my name. What does it mean? Swollen-foot. 5. Which of the following adjectives is not in the comparative degree: melior,latior, maius, pessimus, maior? Pessimus . Bonus: Keeping everything else the same, give the superlative degree of maius? Maximum (do not accept maximus). 6. Here�s an oldie, but a goodie. Give me the names of 3 of the 7 hills of Rome. Palatine, Aventine, Capitoline, Caelian, Viminal, Quirinal, Esquiline. Bonus: Ok, now give 3 more. 7. Distinguish between latus, -a, -um and latus, lateris. Wide /side, flank Bonus: Now distinguish between cado, caedo, and cedo. Fall, kill, go. 8. What do these year have in common? 390 B. C., 216 B. C., 105 B. C., 9 A.D. Years in which Rome suffered defeats. Bonus: After 390 B. C. Rome was never captured again by an foreign enemy until Alaric captured Rome 800 years later. In what year did this occur? 410 A.D.