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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Two 1.1-12

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2. Distinguish between the verbs occïdo, occïdere, occïdï, occïsum and occidö, occidere, occidï, occäsum. To cut down, slay, etc. /to fall, perish, die, etc.
Bonus: Translate this sentence and tell me the tense and voice of the participle: Caesare occ ï so, senatores e curia exiverunt. (With) Caesar killed, the senators left the senate-house. /perfect passive.
3. The first civil wars in Rome broke out in the 80's B. C., as Rome was preparing to fight this last great king in the East, the ruler of Pontus. Mithridates.
Bonus: How many wars did Rome fight with Mithridates before he finally committed suicide in 63 B. C.? 3.
4. How can a February certamen go without mention of the story of Cupid and Psyche? How did Psyche finally win permission to marry Cupid? By bringing back a little of Persephone's beauty from the underworld.
Bonus: The Cupid and Psyche story is probably an old one; but only one writer tells it in the ancient world. Who was this writer and what was the title of his work? Apuleius, Metamorphoses (or the Golden Ass). [Intentional repeat from Round I].
5. Give the genitive singular of the phrase unus manus. Unius manus.
Bonus: Name two other adjectives that follows the unusual pattern of unus . Solus, totus, nullus, ullus, alius, alter, neuter, uter.
6. Which Olympian god was called "twice born" because he was snatched from his mother's womb and sewn into his father's thigh? Dionysus /Bacchus /Liber.
Bonus: Who was the mother of Dionysus? Semele /Thyrone.
7. We heard earlier that odi is a defective verb, which accounts for the famous phrase odi et amo . What do these words mean and who wrote these lines? I love and I hate /Catullus (Prompt for more).

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Lines 1.1-1.12

Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Two 1.1-12

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2. Distinguish between the verbs occïdo, occïdere, occïdï, occïsum and occidö, occidere, occidï, occäsum. To cut down, slay, etc. /to fall, perish, die, etc.
Bonus: Translate this sentence and tell me the tense and voice of the participle: Caesare occ ï so, senatores e curia exiverunt. (With) Caesar killed, the senators left the senate-house. /perfect passive.
3. The first civil wars in Rome broke out in the 80's B. C., as Rome was preparing to fight this last great king in the East, the ruler of Pontus. Mithridates.
Bonus: How many wars did Rome fight with Mithridates before he finally committed suicide in 63 B. C.? 3.
4. How can a February certamen go without mention of the story of Cupid and Psyche? How did Psyche finally win permission to marry Cupid? By bringing back a little of Persephone's beauty from the underworld.
Bonus: The Cupid and Psyche story is probably an old one; but only one writer tells it in the ancient world. Who was this writer and what was the title of his work? Apuleius, Metamorphoses (or the Golden Ass). [Intentional repeat from Round I].
5. Give the genitive singular of the phrase unus manus. Unius manus.
Bonus: Name two other adjectives that follows the unusual pattern of unus . Solus, totus, nullus, ullus, alius, alter, neuter, uter.
6. Which Olympian god was called "twice born" because he was snatched from his mother's womb and sewn into his father's thigh? Dionysus /Bacchus /Liber.
Bonus: Who was the mother of Dionysus? Semele /Thyrone.
7. We heard earlier that odi is a defective verb, which accounts for the famous phrase odi et amo . What do these words mean and who wrote these lines? I love and I hate /Catullus (Prompt for more).