Latin
Lines 1.19-1.30
Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Two 1.19-30
Not analysed yet
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. Lucius et Claudia ex Italia proficiscentes omnes res suas secum ferunt: pauca vestimenta, paulum cibi nec multum pecuniae. Praeterea Lydia parvum librum fert, quem sub vestimentis occultat. What three things did Lucius and Claudia take with them from Italy? Clothes, food, money.
Bonus: What else did Claudia take with her and where did she carry it? A book hidden under her clothes.
12. Distinguish in meaning between fluo and flo . Flow /blow.
Bonus: Sometimes pronunciation makes all the difference. Distinguish in meaning between cecidi and cec ï di . I fell /I killed, cut down.
13. Who am I? I was very beautiful and suitors came from many cities to win my hand. Many paid for it with their life, for to win my hand they had to beat me in a foot race, and the penalty for losing was death. Finally I was beaten by a handsome young man, who tossed a golden apple to distract me. Atalanta.
Bonus. Who was the young man who beat Atalanta in the race? Hippomenes.
14. Who, and in what year deposed Romulus Augustulus deposed as Emperor of the Western Empire? Odoacer /476 A.D.
Bonus: The Empire, of course, continued in the East for another 1,000 years. But it had its ups and downs. 16. What disastrous event occurred in 1204, from which the Empire never really recovered? Constantinople was captured by the Crusaders.
15. Give the adverbial form of the adjective gravis . Graviter.
Bonus: Now give me its noun form. Gravitas.
16. Off of what principal part of the verb does the future active participle form itself? 4th principal part.