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1
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Aegean sea

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Between Greece and Turkey

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Gorgons

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3 Monsters, including Medusa

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Hector

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Prince of Troy

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Adriatic Sea

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East of Italy

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Danaids

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Supposed to marry there cousins, all but one killed man

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Horatius

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Roman general, defended Pons Sublicius

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Ichor

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Gods’ blood

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Niobe

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Wept for loss of her children

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Orion

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Huntsman w/constellation

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Ostia

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Harbor city of ancient Rome

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Palatine hill

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Hill for palaces

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Capitoline Hill

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Hill for temples

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Plebiscite

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Law that applied to plebians

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Rostrum/rostra

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Oration platform

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Tribune

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Elected office, checked the power of the senate

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Zephyr

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Greek god of West Wind

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Actaeon

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Turned into deer for seeing Artemis naked

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Adonis

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Lover of Aphrodite and Persephone, killed by wild boar

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Aeolus

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Wind god

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Amphitrite

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Sea-goddess, wife of Poseidon

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Andromache

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Hector’s wife

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Andromeda

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Supposed to be sacrificed to sea monster, saved by Perseus

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Attica

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Part of Greece where Athens is

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Chimerical

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Product of unchecked imagination

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Concatenation

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Series of interconnected things or events

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Corpus delicti

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Evidence of a crime

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Corrigenda

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Thing to be corrected

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Demosthenes

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Greatest of Greek orators

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Deucalion and Pyrrha

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Survived the flood for being pious

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Errata

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An error in printing

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Fiat

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Let it be done

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1st Triumvirate

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Caesar, Pompey and Crassus

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Gracchi brothers

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Tribunes who tried to enact land reforms

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Hecuba

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Priam’s wife

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Horatii

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Roman male triplets who won war against 3 Alba Longan triplets

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Iustitia omnibus

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Justice for all

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Janus

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God w/ 2 faces

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Leda

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Swan girl

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Lethe

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River in underworld which causes people to forget everything

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Maenad

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Female followers of Dionysus

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Marius

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Reorganized army, consul 7 times

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Mnemosyne

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Personification of memory, mother of muses

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Nolo contendere

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Plea of no contest

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Odium

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Widespread hatred for a person

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Onus probandi

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Burden of proof

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Otiose

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Serving no practical purpose

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Pan and Syrinx

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Syrinx was a nymph chased by pan and changed herself into cattail reeds. Pan turned her into a panpipe

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Phaethon

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Rode in Helios’ chariot to prove he was his father, died.

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Phidippides

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Runner of 1st marathon

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Baucis and Philemon

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Rewarded for hospitality

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51
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Phrixus

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Helle’s brother

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52
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Polyphemus

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Cyclops

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Pythia/Sybil

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Oracle of Delphi

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Saturnine

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Slow and gloomy

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Sine die

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Without a date for resumption

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Sinecure

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Position offering status and money without work

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Stentorian

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Loud and powerful

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Sulla

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General in social war, dictator

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Suum cuique

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To each his own

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Telemachus

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Odysseus’ son

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Vademecum

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Handbook or guide

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a priori

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Theoretical, not yet proven by observation

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Achates

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Friend of Aeneas

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ad valorem

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Tax in proportion to value

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Aeschylus

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Greek tragedian, wrote Agamemnon

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Ajax

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Greek hero in Illiad

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Alcibades

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Side-switching general in Peloponnesian war

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Annuit coeptis

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Motto on money, “favor our undertakings”

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Arete

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“excellence of any kind”

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Arma togae cedant

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Let the arms yield to the toga/let the military yield to diplomacy

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Arma virumque cano

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1st line of Aeneid

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Cato the Elder

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Senator and historian

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Ceteris paribus

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With other conditions remaining the same

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Cleobis and Biton

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Life-size statues at Delphi

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Codex

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Ancient manuscript in book form

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De gustibus non disputandum est

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“In matters of taste their can be no disputes”

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De Rerum Natura

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Book by Lucretius about Epicurian philosophy

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Delian league

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Association of Greek city-states under leadership of Athens, fought in Persian wars

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Democritus

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Formulated atomic theory of universe

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Dies irae

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“Day of Wrath” hymn

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Encomium

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Speech or writing that praises something

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Epicureanism

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Philosophy based on atomic theory, attacked superstition and divine intervention

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Eris

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Greek goddess of discord and strife

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Euripides

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Wrote Medea

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Ex cathedra

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With the full authority of the office (esp. the pope)

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Exordium

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Beginning/introduction

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fl./floruit

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Period when a historical figure lived or worked

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flagrante delicto

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“in blazing offense” criminal was caught in the act

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Aristotle’s four causes

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Material, formal, efficient, and final explanations of change/movement

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Gnothi seauton

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“know thyself”

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Hapax legomenon

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A term of which only one instance or use is recorded

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Heraclitus

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Philosopher who believed change was central to the universe

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infra dignitatem

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Not appropriate for a person’s social position

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Ipse dixit

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Dogmatic or unproven statement

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Lacuna

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Unfilled space or interval

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Litotes

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Affirmative expressed by the negative of the contrary (eg “You won’t be sorry”)

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Logos

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The word of god/appealing to audience w/ logic

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Lucretia

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Raped by Tarquinius Superbus

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Lucretius

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Author of De Rerum Natura

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Lyceum

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Temple dedicated to Apollo, also Aristotle’s school of Philosophy

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Lycurgus

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Reformed Spartan society to be more military

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Maecenas

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Patron of Horace and Vergil

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Martial

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Poet, wrote Epigrams

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Memento mori

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Object serving as a reminder of death

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Messianic ecologue

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Work by Vergil the freemasons think prophesied Jesus

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Mimesis

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Imitation of real world in art and literature

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Multum in parvo

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Great deal in a small space

108
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Nisus and Euryalus

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Trojan lovers serving under Aeneas

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Novus ordo seclorum

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“New order of the ages” (appears on US seal)

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Obiter dictum

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Judge’s incidental expression of opinion, said in passing

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Palladium

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Cult image on which the safety of Rome/Troy was supposed to depend

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Parmenides

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Eleatic philosopher

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Pericles

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Leader during Athenian golden age

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Peroration

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Concluding part of oration

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Philippic

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Bitter attack or denunciation

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Philomela and Procne

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Sisters, Philomena had been raped and had her tongue cut out so she wove a tapestry to tell her story to Procne, who killed her son and served him to her husband, the sisters were turned into birds

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Pindar

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Greek lyric poet

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Pliny the Younger

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Witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius and survived

119
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Polemic

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Strong attack

120
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Preterition

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Disregarding a matter, omitting something

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Primus inter pares

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“first among equals”

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quod vide

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Abbreviation to direct a reader to another part of a book or article

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

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“who will guard the guards themselves”–Juvenal

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Quintillian

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Rhetoric teacher, wrote Institutio Oratoria

125
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Quo vadis?

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“Where are you going?” Saint Peter asked Jesus

126
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Reductio ad absurdum

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Proving something by making its denial appear absurd

127
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Res gestae

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“Things done” legal use: start to end period of a felony

128
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Sallust

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Roman historian

129
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sc. scilicet

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“that is to say”

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Solon

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One of the 7 wise men of Greece

131
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Sophist

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Paid teacher of philosophy

132
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Stet

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“let it stand” (an instruction telling typesetters to ignore a change)

133
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Suetonius

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Roman historian, wrote “12 Caesars”

134
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Tacitus

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Historian, wrote Annals and Histories

135
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Thales

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1st Greek Philosopher, thought everything came from water

136
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The Academy

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Aka Platonic Academy,, Plato’s school of philosophy in Athens

137
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The divided line

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The line of the psyche is divided into conjecture, belief, thought, and understanding according to Plato

138
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The golden mean

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Aristotle’s idea that there is always a desirable middle between two extremes. Also used as a math/art concept

139
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Themistocles

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Non-aristocratic Athenian politician, part of early democracy

140
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Thetis and Peleus

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Thetis was a nymph and Peleus was a mortal, their son was Achilles

141
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Tiresias

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Blind Seer

142
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Ultima Thule

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A distant place “beyond the borders of the known world”

143
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Vae victis

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“Woe to the vanquished”

144
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Verbum sat.

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A word is enough to a wise man, used to bring something to conclusion

145
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Vercingetorix

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Gallic chieftan

146
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viz.

147
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Vulgate

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16th century Catholic latin version of the bible

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Zeno’s paradoxes

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Philosophical problems that contradict what we know from physical evidence

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