# Round Two 1.16-26

Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Two, 1.16 to 1.26. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/virginia-certamen-questions/round-two-12/1.16

9. Dic Anglice nomen provinciae quam Romani appellabant Helvetiam. Switzerland . Bonus: Dic Anglice nomen regionis quam Romani appellabant Caledoniam. Scot land. 10. The Romans had many forms of marriage, each giving rise to a slightly different relationship. What form of marriage would you be entering if you were eating little cakes made of spelt? Confarreatio . Bonus: To what class in Rome was confarreatio limited? Patricians . 11. Listen to the following passage. I will read it twice. Then answer the question concerning that passage. Coriol�nus malus c�vis erat sed bonus m�les. R�m�n� n�llum fr�mentum hab�bant et tim�bant magnam famem. Iam r�x in Sicili� R�m�n�s multum fr�mentum dederat sed Coriol�nus fr�mentum pauperibus n�n dabat. Itaque pauper�s Coriol�num ex urbe exturb�v�runt.Why was Coriolanus driven from Rome? Because he did not share the grain with the poor. Bonus: From where had that grain come? (You may read the passage again). From the king in Sicily. 12. Distinguish in meaning between os, oris and os, ossis. Mouth / bone. Bonus: Give the plural nominative of both these nouns: Ora / ossa. 13. Who am I? I was given the epithet "twice born" because I was snatched from my mother's womb as she was going up in flames and sewn into my father's thigh? I later became the god of the vine. Dionysus / Bacchus / Liber. Bonus. According to most accounts of the myth, who was the mother of Dionysus? Semele . 14. The movie Gladiator was good entertainment, bad history. But at least they got some of the names right. Who was the father of Commodus? Marcus Aurelius.

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