Collegiate Questions—Advanced

Question 1

What experience, symbolized by the artistic inscription “et in Arcadiā ego,” prompts the abbreviation d.s.p. — dēcessit sine prōle — and has its causes examined in a postmortem?

Answer 1

DEATH / DYING [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What two-word Latin phrase, an artistic trope that symbolizes the inevitability of death, is often translated “remember that you must die”?

MEMENTŌ MORĪ

B2: What Latin word fills in the phrase “[blank] Acheruntis,” meaning “food for the gallows”?

PĀBULUM

Question 2

For this question, take cīvitās as “state” and sententia as “motto.” Quae cīvitās, cūius sententia iussit pācem bellō praeferre, nōn iam sententiam Latīnam habet, sed habēbat “Cēdant arma togae?”

Answer 2

WYOMING

B1: Quae cīvitās in sententiā suā dīcit pācem vērē līberam bellō petendam esse?

MASSACHUSETTS

B2: Quae cīvitās in sententiā suā eōs laudat quī aliquid incipiunt cūius frūctus nōn nisi post mortem percipiētur?

NORTH DAKOTA

Question 3

What sort of people popularized the song “gaudeāmus igitur,” become known by a Latin word that literally means “nourished,” and can receive so-called “Latin honors” such as summā cum laude?

Answer 3

(UNDERGRADUATE) STUDENT(S) // GRADUATE(S) // ALUMNI

B1: University students are often attached to their school’s Latin mottoes. What is the Latin motto of Dartmouth College?

VŌX CLĀMANTIS IN DĒSERTŌ

B2: What West Coast school has the Latin motto “palmam quī meruit ferat”?

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA // USC

Question 4

A holder of what position has subordinates “ā latere,” is called “servus servōrum,” can speak “urbī et orbī” or “ex cathedrā,” and is reminded “sīc trānsit glōria mundī” when he is crowned?

Answer 4

(CATHOLIC) POPE // BISHOP OF ROME // PONTIFEX MAXIMUS

B1: What two-word Latin phrase, containing the name of an animal, refers to Christ as proclaimed by John the Baptist or a medallion blessed by the pope and stamped with that animal’s image?

AGNUS DEĪ

B2: Give either the two-word Latin phrase that refers to the private meeting to elect a pope or the two-word Latin phrase that refers to the pope’s designation of a cardinal without a public announcement.

IĀNUĪS CLAUSĪS or IN PECTORE

Question 5

What neuter Latin noun, which is irreparābile according to a line from the Georgics, is said by Ovid to be edāx rērum and by Vergil to “fugit … fugit,” never to be reclaimed?

Answer 5

TEMPUS

B1: What verb, in two different forms, fills in the blanks in the following Latin quote that refers to the impermanence of life: “tempora [blank] et nōs [blank] in illīs”?

MŪTŌ / MŪTĀRE / MŪTANTUR / MŪTĀMUR

B2: What four-word quotation from Horace’s Odes expresses a similar sentiment to tempus fugit and is often translated “alas, the fleeting years glide by”?

ĒHEU, FUGĀCĒS LĀBUNTUR ANNĪ