2011 Oak Hall Certamen Latin Advanced Round 1 Flashcards
TU: What Olympian deity installed a talking beam on the Argo?
B1: Which of the Argonauts was given a clod of earth by Triton which later became the island of Thera?
B2: What unique ability did Euphemus possess?
TU: Athena
B1:Euphemus
B2:He could run very fast (over water and other objects).
TU: Change the phrase eadem urbs to the accusative singular.
B1: Change eandem urbem to the dative plural.
B2: Change eisdem urbibus to the nominative.
TU: Eandem urbem
B1: Eisdem urbibus
B2: Eaedem urbes
TU: What Roman author from Arpinum wrote fourteen Phillipics against Mark Antony?
B1: Cicero modeled his Philippics upon those of what 4th century Attic orator?
B2: Where was Cicero murdered by Antony’s henchman in 43 B. C.?
TU: Cicero
B1: Demosthenes
B2: Formiae
TU: What battle of the Second Punic War ended Carthaginian dominance over Spain in 206 B.C.?
B1: Who commanded the Romans in this battle?
B2: What city, the modern name of which is Cartegena, did Scipio capture in 209 B.C. at the beginning of his Spanish campaign?
TU: Ilipa
B1: Scipio Africanus
B2: Carthago Nova
TU: From what Latin noun, with what meaning, do we derive “genuflect”?
B1: From what Latin verb, with what meaning, do we derive “genuflect”?
B2: Give the vocabulary entry of the Latin noun from which we derive “generic”.
TU: Genu - Knee
B1: Flecto - Bend
B2: Genus, generis, n. - Kind/Class/Race/Birth
TU: Identify the use of the genitive case in the following sentence: “Quid negotii, Iuli, in senatu hodie habes?”
B1: Translate that sentence.
B2: Using a partitive genitive, say in Latin: “Would that we had enough water.”
TU: Partitive
B1: What business do you have in the Senate today, Julius?
B2: Utinam satis aquae habuissemus
TU: What mythological group of three consisted of Gyes, Cottus, and Briaraeus?
B1:Which of the Hecatoncheires arbitrated a dispute between Poseidon and Helios over the patronage of Corinth?
B2: What did mortal men call Briaraeus?
TU: Hecatoncheires
B1: Briaraeus
B2: Aegaeon
TU: What Roman poet wrote the words Exegi monumentum aere perennius at the end of his third book of Odes?
B1: What did Horace call his Satires in Latin?
B2: In which of his works did Horace invoke both Apollo and Diana as a celebration of Roman youth?
TU: Horace
B1: Sermones
B2: Carmen Saeculare
TU: Differentiate in meaning between mel and vel.
B1: …Between vas and vasto.
B2: …between fanum and faenum.
TU: Mel - Honey ; Vel - Or
B1: Vas - Vase ; Vasto - Destroy
B2: Fanum - Temple ; Faenum - Hay
TU: What emperor of Rome was forced by popular opinion to give up his affair with the Jewish princess, Berenice?
B1: What military post, first held by Sejanus, did Titus hold under Vespasian?
B2: Titus sacked Jerusalem in 70 A.D., but the Jews were not finally defeated until Flavius Silva captured what fortress plateau in 73 A.D.?
TU: Titus
B1: Praetorian Prefect
B2: Masada
TU: What Latin abbreviation would instruct you to take a medication before bed?
B1: What abbreviation would tell you that the text you are looking for is on the right hand side of the page?
B2: What abbreviation would tell you that the date you are reading is “from the founding of the city” of Rome?
TU: h.s. (hora somni)
B1: f.r. (folio recto)
B2: A.U.C. (From the Founding of the City)
TU: For which of his labors was Heracles given bronze castenets by Athena to trap his pray?
B1: After which of his labors did Eurystheus hide himself in a bronze chamber and insist that Heracles not enter the walls of his palace?
B2: For which of his labors was Heracles initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries?
TU: Stymphalian Birds
B1: Erymantian Boar
B2: Capturing Cerberus from the Underworld
TU: Which king of Rome was enveloped into a storm cloud on the Campus Martius?
B1: What Roman reportedly saw Romulus ascend into the sky?
B2: The Romans then deified Romulus. By what name did they call him?
TU: Romulus
B1: Julius Proculus
B2: Quirinus
TU: Besides being deponent, what do the verbs potior, vescor, fruor, and fungor all have in common?
B1: Name one other deponent that takes the ablative.
B2: Name one non-deponent verb that takes the ablative.
TU: They all take the ablative case
B1: Utor
B2: Careo/Egeo
TU: What early Roman author was said to have three hearts because of his fluency in three languages: Greek, Latin , and Oscan?
B1: What author of the mid-imperial period said this of Ennius?
B2: What work of Ennius, a fabula praetexta, was a panegyric of this general Fulvius Nobilior?
TU: Q. Ennius
B1: A. Gellius
B2: Ambracia
