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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Two 1.13-30
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Bonus: Whom did he write them about? Lesbia.
8. Take the number of conjugations, add the number of voices, and multiply by the number of tenses. Tell me your answer in Latin. Triginta sex.
Bonus: Take the number of the hills of Rome and multiply by the number of the kings of Rome and give me you answer in Latin. Undequinquaginta.
9. What constellation was created when Aphrodite and Eros hid in a river? Pisces.
Bonus: Whom were these gods hiding from? The Titans.
10. What was the Roman form of marriage for patricians, involving a cermony with cakes? Confarreatio.
Bonus: Confarreatio became rare and was replaced by two more common forms of marriage. Name and describe one of them. Coemptio -purchase /usus -simply living together.
11. It is often said that Latin lacks the perfect active participle, but this is not strictly true. What type of verbs, by their nature, can only have perfect active participles? Deponents.
Bonus: With that said, translate this sentence: Haec locuta, Julia ex atrio exit. Having said these things (words), Julia leaves the atrium.
12. Which one of the following does not belong and why: maior, minus, optimus, longior ? Optimus -it's a superlative.
Bonus: Which one of the following does not belong and why: aetas, voluptas, feminas, aestas . Feminas -it's not a third declension noun.
13. Pygmalion was the name of two famous characters in legend. Describe one of them. The sculptor who created the living woman (Galatea) /Dido's brother.
Bonus: Describe the other.
14. What year saw the formation of the First Triumvirate? 60 B. C.
Bonus: What famous Roman was asked to join the First Triumvirate, refused, and lived to regret it? Cicero.