FJCL Regional Flashcards
What Latin abbreviation found on prescriptions stands for the word recipe? Rx B1. How often should a prescription marked t.i.d. be taken? 3 times a day B2. How should a medicine marked p.o. be taken? orally; by mouth
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For the sentence, “The servants led the boys to the forest” translate “boys”. Answer: PUEROS B1: For the same sentence, translate “to the forest”. Answer: AD SILVAM B2: Now translate the entire sentence, “The servants led the boys to the forest”. Answer: SERVI PUEROS AD SILVAM DUCEBANT / DUXERUNT
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What famous heroes, the twin sons of Zeus and Leda, fought in the Calydonian boar hunt and sailed with the Argonauts? Answer: THE DIOSCOURI/CASTOR AND POLLUX B1: What was the special talent of Pollux? Answer: BOXING B2: As what celestial phenomenon did the Dioscouri appear? Answer: ST. ELMO’S FIRE/THE CONSTELLATION GEMINI
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At what battle in 197 BC did Titus Quinctius Flamininus decisively defeat the forces of the Macedonian ruler Philip V, thus ending the Second Macedonian War? Answer: BATTLE OF CYNOSCEPHALAE B1. Who succeeded Philip V as the ruler of Macedon and Rome’s antagonist in the Third Macedonian War? Answer: PERSEUS B2. At what battle in 168 BC was Perseus defeated by the forces of Lucius Aemilius Paullus? Answer: PYDNA
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What 2-word Latin phrase is used in English to mean “secretly”? sub rosā B1. What 2-word Latin phrase is used in English on book plates or to mean “from the library of”? ex librīs B2. What 2-word Latin phrase is used in English means “in memory of” and refers to the memory of a deceased person? in memoriam
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Where were the Romans defeated by the Gauls in 390 B.C.? Answer: ALLIA RIVER B1. Name the Gallic chieftain at this battle. Answer: BRENNUS B2. What did Brennus say to the Romans when they complained that he was cheating them? Give your answer in Latin and translate, please. Answer: VAE VICTIS, WOE TO THE CONQUERED (VANQUISHED)
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In the sentence, “The slaves are carrying water,” translate „water.‟ Answer: AQUAM B1. Give the correct Latin form of the verb in that sentence: “The slave is carrying water.” Answer: PORTANT B2. Change portat to the corresponding future tense. Answer: PORTABUNT
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Say in Latin, “he will lead.” Answer: DUCET B1. Change ducet to the corresponding pluperfect tense and translate. Answer: DUXERAT, HE HAD LED B2. Change duxerat to the corresponding future perfect tense and translate. Answer: DUXERIT, HE WILL HAVE LED
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Which Greek god famously carried on an amorous affair with the goddess Aphrodite that resulted in several children – sons Phobos and Deimos, and a daughter, Harmonia? Ares B1. Ares was a fairly inept god of war. In fact, during the Trojan War, he was wounded by a Greek leader. Which Greek accomplished this? Diomedes B2. How did Aphrodite’s husband Hephaestus once catch Ares and Aphrodite in the act? Caught them in a net
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Which emperor received the agnomen “Pius” for his insistence on having his predecessor Hadrian deified by the Roman Senate? Answer: ANTONINUS PIUS B1. Who was Antoninus Pius’ successor and son-in-law? Answer: MARCUS AURELIUS B2. To which school of philosophy was Marcus Aurelius a strict adherent, even writing his own works on the topic? Answer: STOICISM
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What pair of mythological siblings famously spend half of their time on earth and half in the underworld? Castor and Pollux B1. Castor and Pollux were collectively known as the Dioscuri, which refers to them as both sons of whom? Zeus B2. What two Greek women, who both prominently figure among the Trojan War, were the sisters of Castor and Pollux? Clytemnestra and Helen
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Born in April of 145 AD, what man, at the age of 48, became the first man born in the province of Africa to hold the imperial throne? Septimius Severus B1. In what Roman province did Septimius Severus die in 211 AD? Brittania (Britain) B2. What second wife of Septimius Severus bore him his two sons? Julia Domna
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Who was the first of the Five Good Emperors? Answer: NERVA B1. Who succeeded Nerva? Answer: TRAJAN B2. Who succeeded Trajan? Answer: HADRIAN
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Translate into English: The wife of the poet is angry. Answer: UXOR / MULIER / FEMINA POETAE EST IRATA. B1. Translate: The wife‟s money was lost by the poet. Answer: PECUNIA UXORIS/MULIERIS/FEMINAE AMITTEBATUR/AMISSA EST A POETĀ. B2. Translate: The cowardly poet had avoided his angry wife. Answer: POETA IGNAVUS AVITAVERAT UXOREM / MULIEREM / / FEMINAM IRATAM.
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Give the years of the 2nd Punic War. Answer: 218-201 BCE B1. Give the years of the 1st Punic War. Answer: 264-241 BCE B2. What Roman general destroyed Carthage in the 3rd Punic War? Answer: SCIPIO AEMILIANUS
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Where would you be in Rome if you saw metae, carceres, ova, and delphines? Answer: CIRCUS (MAXIMUS) B1. What were the carceres at the circus? Answer: STARTING GATES B2. For what purpose were ova and delphines used? Answer: COUNTING LAPS
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Give the abbreviation that means „note well.‟ Answer: N.B. B1. Give the Latin for the abbreviation N.B. Answer: NOTA BENE B2. Give the Latin and the English for the abbreviation P.S. Answer: POST SCRIPTUM, WRITTEN AFTERWARDS
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Give the Latin verb and its meaning from which we derive “deposit.” Answer: PONO – PUT, PLACE B1. Which of the following words is NOT derived from pono? expose, compound, postage, possible Answer: POSSIBLE B2. Give the Latin verb and its meaning from which we derive “possible.” Answer: POSSUM – BE ABLE
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Give the accusative singular of the phrase “strong horse”. fortem equum B1. Make fortem equum genitive plural. fortium equōrum B2. Make fortium equōrum ablative. fortibus equīs
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Which of these foods was NOT known to the Romans: artichokes, pumpkins, corn, peas? Answer: CORN B1. What was the best vegetable, according to Cato? Answer: CABBAGE B2. What meat was most common in ancient Rome? Answer: PORK
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Which of the following words if any is NOT derived from the Latin verb teneō: abstain, tense, content. tenant? tense B1. What sport’s name is also derived from the Latin verb teneo? tennis B2. What derivative of teneō is defined as “maintaining or adhering to something valued or desired”? tenacious
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Which of these Latin verbs does not belong because of conjugation – ducō, ponō, putō, petō? putō B1. Define all four of those Latin verbs. ducō – to lead; ponō – to put/place; putō – to think; petō – to seek; attack B2. Which one of those four verbs does not form its singular imperative like the others? ducō
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Name the king of Troy during the Trojan War. Answer: PRIAM B1. Which of his sons was the greatest Trojan warrior? Answer: HECTOR B2. Who was Hector‟s mother? Answer: HECUBA
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What famous orator and co-consul of Gaius Antonius Hybrida delivered a series of speeches in 63 BC to suppress a planned conspiracy against the Roman government? Answer: MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO B1. Whose conspiracy did he suppress? Answer: CATALINE (‘S) B2. What title was Cicero awarded by the Senate for supressing the Catiline Conspiracy? Answer: PATER PATRIAE
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