Latin
Lines 1.43-1.76
Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Two 1.43-76
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NOVUS HOMO
A. What phrase signified the regular order of offices that formed the Roman political ladder?
CURSUS HONORUM
B. What phrase was used by Cicero to address the Senate? PATRES CONSCRIPTI
9. Who in mythology killed a series of bandits, including Procrustes, on his way to see his father? THESEUS
A. To what city was Theseus going? ATHENS
B. Who was Theseus' father, the king of Athens? AEGEUS
10. What genre of literature often begins in medias res? EPIC POETRY
A. What epic begins with the wrath of Achilles? THE ILIAD
B. What epic begins with the wrath of Juno? THE AENEID
11. In the phrase mirabile dictu, what grammatical form is dictu? SUPINE
A. Translate mirabile dictu. WONDROUS TO SAY
B. Translate the supine in the phrase "awful to see." VISU
12. What member of Romes first triumvirate ran the fire brigade? CRASSUS
A. Who was the wealthiest member of the first triumvirate? CRASSUS
B. Who was the first member of the triumvirate to die? CRASSUS
13. Give the meaning of the idiom res novae. REVOLUTION
A. Give the idiom using res that means "accomplishments." RES GESTAE
B. Who wrote a book called Res Gestae, in which he bragged about finding Rome a city of brick and leaving it a city of marble? AUGUSTUS
14. Take the number of the Muses, add the number of the Graces, and give the total in Latin. DUODECIM
A. Take the number of children Rhea Silvia had, multiply by the number of children Leto had, and add the number of sons Niobe had. Give your answer in Latin. DUODEVIGINTI
B. Responde Latine. Quot sorores Iuppiter habebat? TRES
15. What literary device is illustrated in this line from Ovid? Sonuerunt cymbala toto litore et attonita tympana pulsa manu. ONOMATOPOEIA/CONSONANCE
A. What literary device is defined as "the use of the conjunction to add each member in a series"? Example: et color et Theseus et vox. POLYSYNDETON
B. What literary device is defined as "the omission of the conjunction in a series"? ASYNDETON
16. What particular Latin verbal construction is illustrated by the following sentence? Hoc est faciendum mihi.