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Question 1

Juvenal 9: Now and again I am given a greasy cloak to protect my toga…or a piece of brittle silver from an inferior vein

Answer 1

Pingues aliquando lacernas munimenta togae…tenue argentum venaeque secundae

Question 2

Juvenal 1: Nothing is held in such veneration as the grandeur of riches

Answer 2

quandoquidem internos sanctissima diuitiarum maestras

Question 3

Juvenal 3.153-9 : complains that equestrian rank is only contingent on money - wealth can levy a theatre seat over family status

Answer 3

ex eat…si pudor est, et de pulvino surgat equestri, cuius res legi no sufficit

Question 4

Cena Trimalchionis: I want you also to depict ships in full sail, and myself sitting on a dias wearing the toga with a purple stripe

Answer 4

ut naves etiam monumenti mei facias plenis velis euntes, et me in tribunali sedentem praetextatum

Question 5

Juvenal 8: For who would call anyone noble who disgraced his family, and claimed renown for nothing apart from his famous name

Answer 5

quis enim generosum dixerit hunc qui indignus genere

Question 6

Juvenal: Fortune does not change origin

Answer 6

fortuna mutat genus

Question 7

Cena Trimalchionis: (gold box) in which they said Trimalchio’s beard was stored

Answer 7

(gold box) in qua barbam ipsius coditam esse dicebant

Question 8

Juvenal 1: ‘hodge podge’

Answer 8

shows the mix of small stories / themes which are contained in the book of satires - the word ‘satura’ refers to a dish of small dishes

Question 9

Juvenal 3: Voice is predominantly Umbricius not main voice of satire

Answer 9

shifting voice pollutes the sense of a satiric persona - if not main voice, should the opinions thus be dismissed?

Question 10

Cicero Pro Murena 76: The Roman people disapproves of private luxury, but admires public magnificence

Answer 10

odit populus Romanus privatam luxuriam, publicam magnificentiam diligit