2️⃣ Week 2 Certamen Flashcards
What war ended with the consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus destroying a Carthaginian fleet near the Aegates Islands in 241 BC?
First Punic War
Where, in 225 BC, did the consuls Gaius Atilius Regulus and Lucius Aemilius Papus decimate a force of over 70,000 Insubrian Gauls?
Cape Telamon
What piece of naval technology did the Romans use against the Carthaginians to turn a naval battle into a land battle?
Corvus
What King of Epirus did the Tarentines appeal to for help in 280 B.C?
Pyrrhus
What consul was victorious at the battle of Mylae?
Duilius
What Spartan mercenary did the Carthaginians hire in 255 B.C to reform their military?
Xanthippus
What group of Campanian Mercenaries seized the city of Messana in 289 B.C?
The Mamertines
What Roman commander was the victorious admiral at the battle of Aegates Islands?
Lutatius Catulus
What battle of 260 B.C was Rome’s first major naval victory?
Mylae
What Roman patrician, exiled through plebeian hostility, led a Volscian attack on Rome in 491 B.C?
Coriolanus
Which two women persuaded Coriolanus to turn back from his assault on Rome?
Veturia (mother), Volumnia (wife)
What naval battle of 241 B.C proved to be the deciding battle of the First Punic War?
Aegates island
Where in 295 B.C did the Romans defeat a coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, Sabines, and Umbrians?
Sentinum
What consul of 249 B.C was responsible for the naval disaster at Drepana?
Publius Claudius Pulcher
What happened to the Roman army at the Caudine Forks after they were defeated?
Driven under the Yolk
Where did the Romans defeat Pyrrhus in 275 B.C?
Beneventum
What Plebian consul, responsible for the Foedus Cassianum, was executed by a patrician consul n 485 B.C?
Spurrius Cassius
What Roman commander committed the devotio during the battle of Sentinum?
Decius Mus
What man did the Senate chose to be dictator to save the Romans at Mt.Algidus?
Cincinnatus
Who sacked Carthage in 146 BC?
Scipio Aemilianus
What Sennonian chieftain reprotedly said vae victis to the Romans when they complained of weighted scales?
Brennus
What man, the only member of both decemviri councils, is infamous for his tyrannical actions?
Appius Claudius
Where in 458 B.C was a Roman army trapped by the Aequi?
Mt.Algidus
Where in 390 B.C were the Romans routed by Gaullic invaders?
Allia River
Who was the Samnite commander at the battle of Caudine Forks?
Gavius Pontius
Where did Pyrrhus defeat the Romans in 280 B.C?
Heraclea
What battle of 321 B.C was a decisive victory for the Samnites?
Caudine Forks
Who stuck his right hand in a fire to prove the resolve of the Romans to Lars Porsenna?
Mucius Scaevola
According to Roman Tradition, what hero saved Rome from the Etruscans by defending the Pons Sublicius?
Horatius Cocles
Who sacked Corinth in 146 BC?
Mummius
What two day battle did Pyrrhus fight against the Romans in 279 B.C, ultimately winning another Pyrrhic victory?
Asculum
