2011 Oak Hall Certamen Latin II Round 3 Flashcards
TU: What use of the Genitive is found in this sentence: Ego sum vir magnae sapientae.
B1: Translate that sentence.
B2: What use of the genitive is illustrated in the phrase plus vinorum?
TU: Description
B1: I am a man of great wisdom
B2: Partitive
TU: What man fell in love with Perseus’ mother and was eventually turned to stone by Perseus?
B1: What brother of Polydectes found Perseus and his mother washed up on the shore?
B2: The Gorgon Medusa, whom Perseus killed, gave birth to two children upon her death. Name one of them.
TU: Polydectes
B1: Dictys
B2: Chryseor/Pegasus
TU: Which of the following does not belong because of gender: oppidum, arbor, mare, nomen
B1: Which of these does not belong by meaning: aster, astrum, stella, anser?
B2: Which of the following doesn’t belong because of conjugation: capio, sentio, fugio, facio?
TU: Arbor
B1: Anser
B2: Capio
TU: Where was Rome’s first naval victory?
B1: What device was attached to Roman ships so that they could join other ships on the sea?
B2: What naval battle ended the 1st Punic War?
TU: Mylae
B1: Corvus/Raven
B2: Aegates Islands
TU: Based on its derivation, someone who is “magnanimous” is what?
B1: Based on its derivation, a “response” is a what?
B2: Based on its derivation, what are you doing when you “translate”?
TU: Great-Spirited/Souled
B1: Promise
B2: Carry across (to another language)
TU: What type of slave, usually a Greek, accompanied children to school and acted as a tutor?
B1: What slave whispered the names of important clients to his patron?
B2:What slave oversaw the other slaves on a Roman estate?
TU: Paedagogus
B1: Nomenclator
B2: Vilicus
TU: Who was instructed by the Delphic oracle to found a city where a cow lay down?
B1: What was the name of Cadmus’ city?
B2: What daughter of Ares and Aphrodite did Cadmus marry?
TU: Cadmus
B1: Thebes/Cadmeia
B2: Harmonia
TU: Name, in order, the Julio-Claudian Emperors.
B1: Name, in order, all of the emperors of 69 AD.
B2: Name, in order, all of the Five Good Emperors.
TU: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero
B1: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian
B2: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius
TU: For the verb ago: give the 3rd person, singular, pluperfect, passive indicative.
B1: Make that form active.
B2: Give the 2nd person plural present active imperative of ago.
TU: Actus erat
B1: Egerat
B2: Agite
TU: With respect to the Roman circus, what were carceres?
B1: What were tesserae, with respect to military camps?
B2: What were tesserae, with respect to the theater?
TU: Starting gates
B1: Passwords
B2: Tickets
TU: What monster in mythology had the head of a lion, body of a goat, and the tail of a snake?
B1: What hero slew the Chimera with arrows while riding Pegasus?
B2: What Lycian king sent Bellerophon to kill the Chimera?
TU: Chimera
B1: Bellerophon
B2: Iobates
TU: Give the Latin and English for the motto of Arizona.
B1: Give the Latin and English for the motto of Colorado.
B2: Give the Latin and English for the motto of Michigan.
TU: Ditat Deus - God Enriches
B1: Nil Sine Numine - Nothing Without Divine Guidance
B2: SI Quaeris Paeninsulam Amoenam, Circumspice - If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look Around You
TU: Give the comparative and superlative forms of pulcher.
B1: …of similis.
B2: …of magnus.
TU: Pulchrior & Pulcherrimus
B1: Similior & Simillimus
B2: Maior & Maximus
TU: From what Latin noun with what meaning do we derive the words: journal, diary, and sojourn?
B1: From what Latin verb do we derive the words, suffuse, refuse, and confound?
B2: From what Latin noun do we derive the words: abound, surround, and undulate?
TU: Dies - Day
B1: Fundo
B2: Unda
TU: What Roman dictator conquered the Etruscan city of Veii in 396 B.C.?
B1: How long did the siege of Veii take?
B2: Give Camillus’ full name.
TU: Camillus
B1: Ten years
B2: Marcus Furius Camillus
