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TU: In 207 BC, who composed a parthenion in honor of Juno

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Livius Andronicus

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TU: In whose entourage did Livius Andronicus come to Rome

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Livius Salinator

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TU: What was the name of Andronicus’ professional association

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Collegium Scribarum Histrionumque

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TU: Who proved that he was an able playwright, and not just a translator, with his creative license in producing the Odusia

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Livius Andronicus

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5
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TU: How many lines of the Odusia survive

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46

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TU: In what meter was the Odusia written

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Saturnian

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TU: What Roman author of Campanian origin fought in the first Punic War, which granted him inspiration for his Bellum Punicum

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Gnaeus Naevius

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TU: What grammarian, a contemporary of Accius, arranged the Bellum Punicum into 7 book

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Lampadio

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TU: Where did Naevius die while in exile

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Utica

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10
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TU: What are the names of Naevius’ two praetextae

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Romulus and Clastidium

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TU: Who was the victorious general at the battle of Clastidium

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Marcus Claudius Marcellus

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TU: What titles were shared by Livius Andronicus and Gnaeus Naevius

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Equos Troianus and Danae

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TU: What two works of Gnaeus Naevius dealt with the Trojan War

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Hector Proficescens and Iphigenia

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TU: What work of Naevius deals with the cult of Dionysus

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Lycurgus

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TU: Which of Naevius’ comedies is from Menander

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Gymnasticus

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16
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TU: Which of Naevius’ comedies has a fragment still extent

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Tarentilla

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17
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TU: At 1,437 lines, which play of Plautus is his longest

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Miles Gloriosus

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TU: At 729 lines, which play of Plautus is his shortest

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Curculio

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19
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TU: What does Curculio translate to

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Weevil

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20
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TU: What is the best-known comedy of Caecilius Statius

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Plocium (The Necklace)

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21
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TU: In whose list of comedians was Caecilius Statius placed first

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(Volcacius) Sedigitus

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TU: While many authors praise Caecilius Statius’s writings, what author has reservations concerning the purity of his Latin

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Cicero

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23
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TU: Who first introduced the use of Greek in his annals

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Fabius Pictor

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24
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TU: Who criticized Fabius Pictor’s lack of objectivity in his decidedly pro-Roman stance concerning the clash with Carthage

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Polybius

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25
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TU: What author was taken prisoner during the Second Punic War and may have known Hannibal personally

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Cincius Alimentus

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26
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TU: Polybius and Dionysus of Halicarnassus acknowledged the objectivity and insight of what author’s annals written in Greek

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Cincius Alimentus

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27
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TU: What annalist was an interpreter in the Senate for the embassy of the three Greek philosophers, and lingered at length over the origins of Rome, since he had strong etiological interests

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Gaius Acilius

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28
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TU: What annalist was mocked by Cato for apologizing for any mistakes he might have made in composing his Greek annals

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Aulus Postumius Albinus

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29
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TU: What man is termed by Suetonius as a semi-graecus in reference to the Greek culture around Rudiae

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Ennius

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30
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TU: Who is said to have brought Ennius to Rome

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Cato the Elder

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31
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TU: What Roman author accompanied Fulvius Nobilior to Greece and was charged with depicting the military campaign up until the battle of Ambracia

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Ennius

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32
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TU: What tragedy of Ennius was his last

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Thyestes

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33
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TU: What work of Ennius was inspired by a Greek poem by Archestratus of Gela and is the first attested Latin Poem in hexameters

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Hedyphagetica

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34
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TU: What work of Ennius is a celebratory work written to praise the victor of Zama

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Scipio

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35
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TU: What work of Ennius discusses he belief in the gods’ origin from deeds of ancient heroes

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Euhemerus

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36
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TU: In the comedian rankings of Volcacius Sedigitus, who is ranked last

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Ennius

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37
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TU: What is the earliest Latin prose text that comes down to us in entirety

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De Agri Cultura

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38
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TU: What work of Cato is a collection of memorable sayings or anecdotes

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Apophthegmata

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39
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TU: The audience of what play of Terence preferred a show of tightrope walkers during its debut

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Hecyra

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40
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TU: What Roman playwright had constant, careful concern for verisimilitude

A

Terence

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41
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TU: In the prologue of what play does Terence defend against contaminatio

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Andria

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42
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TU: What play of Terence was met with the greatest success

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Eunuchus

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43
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TU: What Roman author is also known as a painter

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Pacuvius

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44
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TU: What work of Pacuvius translates to the bath

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Niptra

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45
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TU: While Cicero judged Pacuvius the greatest of the Latin tragic poets, what other Roman author criticized Pacuvius as being contorted, bombastic, and reckless with neologisms

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Lucilius

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46
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TU: What 9 book work of Accius seems to be a mixture of prose

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Didascalica

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47
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TU: Who dedicated his first grammatical work, the De Antiquitate Litterarum, to Accius for writing the Didascalica

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Varro Reatinus

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48
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TU: What Roman author chooses to only write of events at which he was personally present and show why and how they came about

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Sempronius Asellio

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49
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TU: What Roman author decided to embellish his history works including fantastic and miraculous elements

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Coelius Antipater

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50
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TU: In whose historical work does Sulla appear to be somewhat of a hero

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Sisenna

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51
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TU: Who was the teacher of Varro and Cicero and started the critical task of publishing and commenting on literary texts

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Aelius Stilo

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52
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TU: Who was the first author to write fabulae togatae

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Titinius

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53
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TU: What author is a native of Bologna and flourished in 89 BCE

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Pomponius

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54
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TU: What Roman author doubled as a knight

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Laberius

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55
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TU: What Roman author attacked Julius Caesar and as a result was forced to perform in his own mimes

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Laberius

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56
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TU: What author of mimes seems to be proverbial for his ability to coin sententiae, sayings and maxims of general character

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Publilius Syrus

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57
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TU: What name is given to the first book of Lucilius’ satires

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Concilium Deorum

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58
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TU: Whom did Lucilius attack in his first book of satires

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Lentulus Lupus

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59
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TU: How did Lucilius depict Lentulus Lupus dying in his first book of satires

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Indigestion

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60
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TU: Whose banquet does Lucilius depict in the 30th book of his satires

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Granius

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61
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TU: What book of Lucilius’ satires is dedicated to his ‘ladylove’

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16

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62
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TU: What speech of Cato the Elder opposes the war against Rhodes

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Oratio pro Rhodiensibus

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63
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TU: What work of Latin Literature consists of a preface and 170 short chapters

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De Agri Cultura

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64
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TU: To whom was Accius’ Didascalica dedicated

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Baebius

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65
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TU: Who reworked a text by Aristedes of Miletus entitled Fabulae Milesiae

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Sissena

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66
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TU: What productions were originally put on ex tempore

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Atellan Farce

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67
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TU: What Roman author was born at Lanuvium

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Aelius Stilo

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68
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TU: In books 22 and 23 of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, who is sent by the senate to consult the oracle at Delphi after the defeat at Cannae

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Fabius Pictor

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69
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TU: Who is the principal opponent of Terence

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Luscius of Lanuvium

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70
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TU: What title is given to the fabula togata of Naevius

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Ariolus

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71
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TU: In the prologue of what play of Terence does he claim that Caecilius Statius’ plays were doomed when they were new to the stage

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Hecyra

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72
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TU: Who wrote ‘numquam poetor nisi si podager’ in reference to his gaut

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Ennius

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73
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TU: Of what poet did Horace say that he never sallied forth to sing of arms unless he was drunk

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Ennius

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74
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TU: At whose funeral games in 160 BC did Hecyra fail to hold an audience

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Aemilius Paulus

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75
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TU: What Roman author introduced epigrams of Greek type into Latin poetry

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Catulus

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76
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TU: What Roman author wrote a work in 6 or more books titled Erotopaegina which dealt with the myths reworked in Alexandrian poetry

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Laevius

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77
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TU: What Roman author wrote a translation in hexameters of the Iliad

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Matius

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78
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TU: What Roman author ventured into a new genre known as mimiambs, which were not meant for performance, but rather private reading

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Matius

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79
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TU: Who was the author of a Moretum that Macrobius would call an “idyll”

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Sueius

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80
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TU: Who was the author of Pulli

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Sueius

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81
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TU: What work of Sueius goes in depth of names of various nuts

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Moretum

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82
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TU: What native of Cisalpine Gaul was referred to as the Latin Siren

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Valerius Cato

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83
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TU: What Roman author wrote Lydia, which shows the Alexandrianizing character of poetry, and Dictynna, which tells the Cretan myth of the goddess Diana

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Valerius Cato

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84
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TU: What author was born at Cremona

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Marcus Furius Bibaculus

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85
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TU: Whose historical epic, Pragmatia Belli Gallici, was ridiculed by Horace for its clumsy pomposity

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Marcus Furius Bibaculus

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86
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TU: Who wrote a historical poem on Caesar’s campaign against Ariovistus entitled the Bellum Sequanicum

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Varro Atacinus

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87
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TU: What work of Varro Atacinus, which was named for his beloved, did the elegiac poets regard as one of the earliest instances of Latin erotic poetry

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Leucadia

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88
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TU: Who wrote a free translation in Latin hexameters of Apollonius’s Argonautica

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Varro Atacinus

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89
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TU: What Roman author was born in Brescia

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Cinna

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90
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TU: What work of Cinna focuses on the incestuous love of Myrrha and her father

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Zmyrna

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91
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TU: Who wrote a Propempticon addressed to Asinius Pollio in 56 BC

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Cinna

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92
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TU: Who wrote an epicedion concerning the untimely death of his wife Quintilia

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Calvus

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93
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TU: What Roman author wrote an epyllion entitled Io

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Calvus

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94
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TU: What Roman author was the son of Licinius Macer, a famous orator and historian

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Calvus

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95
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TU: In whose entourage did Catullus travel to Bithynia

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Gaius Memmius

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96
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TU: What name is given to the first 60 poems of Catullus

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Nugae

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97
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TU: What name is given to poems 61 through 68 of Catullus

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Carmina Docta

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98
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TU: What poem of Catullus recounts the marriage of Peleus and Thetis

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64

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99
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TU: What poem of Catullus, written in Galliambics, deals with the young Attis who is obsessed with the cult of Cybele

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63

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100
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TU: What poem of Catullus is a translation of the Lock of Berenice

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66

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101
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TU: About what Roman author is it said “qui postea amatorio poculo in furorem versus, cum aliquot libros per intervalla insaniae conscripsisset?”

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Lucretius

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102
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TU: What work, dedicated to Gaius Memmius, discusses Epicurean philosophy in 6 books

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De Rerum Natura

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103
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TU: Despite his disparaging the works of Epicureans Amafinius and Catius, who edits Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura

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Cicero

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104
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TU: The plague at Athens in 430 BC, which had already been told by Thucydides, ends what work of Lucretius

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De Rerum Natura

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105
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TU: Who found himself obliged to create new periphraes such as semina, primordia, and corpora prima, due to the “poverty of the ancestral vocabulary” for his De Rerum Natura

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Lucretius

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106
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TU: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas is said by Vergil about what other Roman author

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Lucretius

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107
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TU: In his Silvae, Statius talks about the furor arduus of what learned Roman author

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Lucretius

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108
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TU: Who wrote a historical handbook which included all Roman history to the year 49 BC entitled Liber Annalis

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Atticus

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109
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TU: Of the original 25, 6 books of what work of Varro remain

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De Lingua Latina

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110
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TU: To whom were the last 21 books of the De Lingua Latina dedicated

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Cicero

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111
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TU: What work of Varro, hailed as a revelation by Cicero, is a history of customs, institutions, and sets of mind of the Roman people

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Antiquitates

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112
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TU: To what are the first and second parts of Varro’s Aniquitates dedicated respectively

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Res Humanae and Res Divinae

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113
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TU: What author wrote a collection of Imagines, which are also called Hebdomades, about famous Roman and Greek, statesmen, poets, philosophers, and more

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Varro Reatinus

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114
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TU: Who wrote 76 books of Logistorici, dialogues on philosophical and historical subjects with double titles

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Varro Reatinus

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115
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TU: Who wrote 9 books of Disciplinae dealing with medicine, architecture, astronomy, music, and more

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Varro

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TU: To whom is the first book of Varro’s De Re Rustica dedicated

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Fundania

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117
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TU: To what cattle raiser is the second book of Varro’s’ De Re Rustica dedicated

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Turranius Niger

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118
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TU: To what country neighbor is the third book of Varro’s De Re Rustica dedicated

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Quintinus Pinnius

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119
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TU: What Roman author wrote the Commentarii Grammatici, a work of at least twenty-nine books characterized by the juxtaposition of grammatical and antiquarian subjects

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Nigidius Figulus

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120
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TU: What Roman author declared that the world turned on its own axis at the speed of a potter’s wheel, perhaps in reference to his own cognomen meaning potter

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Nigidius Figulus

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121
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TU: What Roman author was born in either Ostiglia or Pavia

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Cornelius Nepos

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122
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TU: Which book of Cornelius Nepos’ De Viris Illustribus is still extant

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De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium

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TU: Which of Cornelius Nepos’ works was a three-book work of chronography

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Chronica

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TU: Which of Cornelius Nepos’ works was a five book work perhaps on geography

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Exempla

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125
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TU: What work of Caesar is a treatise on problems of language and style

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De Analogia

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126
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TU: Who wrote Laudes Herculis, Dicta Collectanea, and Oedipus

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Caesar

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127
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TU: What work of Caesar is a poem describing his expedition to Spain in 45 BC

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Iter

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128
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TU: What Roman author was born at Amiternum

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Sallust

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129
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TU: Who was appointed governor of Africa Nova by Caesar, only to prove himself not worthy of the job as he was accused of embezzlement upon returning to Rome

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Sallust

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130
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TU: What Roman author used made up speeches for his works

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Sallust

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131
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TU: What is an episadion

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Funeral Elegy

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132
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TU: What group is known as the cantores Euphorionis

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Neoterics

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133
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TU: Who made a successful speech that resulted in a reduction of taxes on wealthy women

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Hortensia

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134
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TU: Whom does Cicero call emendator sermonis usitati

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Sisenna

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135
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TU: What author wrote Ethiopid and Lucubrationes

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Furius Bibaculus

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TU: What Roman author wrote in choliambic meter for his mimiambs

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Matius

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137
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TU: Who uses the word columbulatim to describe a kiss in one of his mimiambs

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Matius

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138
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TU: According to his satires, Horace was introduced to Maecenas by what man

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Varius Rufus

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139
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TU: What tragedy did Varius Rufus write

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Thyestes

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140
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TU: What work of Varius Rufus, of which a few fragments remain, attacks Mark Antony for his greed for wealth and immoderate passion for luxury

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De Morte

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141
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TU: What native of Arezzo, though he was not a successful writer himself, paved the way as a patron for several other writers including Vergil and Ovid

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Maecenas

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142
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TU: Who claimed that his Ajax had died, not by the sword as Sophocles’ hero had, but by the sponge used for erasing as part of his poetic experiment

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Augustus

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143
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TU: What Epicurean philosopher conducted the school in Naples that the young Vergil had attended

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Siro

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144
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TU: On returning from a voyage to Greece, what Roman author died at Brundisium in 19 BC

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Vergil

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145
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TU: Where is Vergil buried

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Naples

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146
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TU: What work of Vergil consists of 10 brief poems in hexameters

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(Bucolics )Eclogues

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147
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TU: What work of Vergil is a didactic poem in four books of hexameters

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Georgics

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148
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TU: What does Vergil call the 58 unfinished verses of his Aeneid

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Tibicines

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149
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TU: Upon whose idols did Vergil draw for his Bucolics

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Theocritus

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150
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TU: In the first poem of Vergil’s Bucolics, what two shepherds have a dialogue

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Tityrus and Meliboeus

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151
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TU: Which poem of Vergil’s Bucolics is a prophetic song for the birth of a child who will witness the coming of a new and happy cosmic age

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4

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152
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TU: Which poem of Vergil’s Bucolics is dedicated to Asinius Pollio

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8

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153
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TU: Which poem of Vergil’s Bucolics is dedicated to Cornelius Gallus

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10

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154
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TU: Who coined the term plagosus in reference to his teacher Orbilius

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Horace

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155
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TU: Who was brought to Rome by his father so that he could attend the school of the grammarian Orbilius

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Horace

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156
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TU: Theomnestos, Cratippus of Pergamum, and Orbilius were all teachers of what Roman author

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Horace

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157
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TU: After his farm had been confiscated by the triumvirs, who had to become a Scriba Quaestorius in order to earn a living

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Horace

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158
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TU: What work of Horace, published with his second book of Satires, did he call Iambi

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Epodes

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159
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TU: What work of Horace consists of 17 short poems

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Epodes

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160
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TU: Who states that he borrows the numeri and animi from Archilochus, but not the res in the writing of his Epodes

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Horace

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161
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TU: Which epode of Horace is a propempticon to Maevius telling him to be shipwrecked

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10

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162
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TU: Autarkeia and Metriotes were the basic objectives of whose inquiry in his satires

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Horace

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163
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TU: Who imagines Sappho and Alcaeus bewitching an astonished Underworld with their song in one of his odes

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Horace

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164
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TU: What work of Horace, sometimes considered to be the second book of Epistles, is a treatise in 476 hexameters that sets forth Peripatetic theories on poetry

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Ars Poetica

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165
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TU: What Roman author, a fellow student of Vergil, was appointed praefectus Aegypti by Augustus

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Cornelius Gallus

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166
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TU: What Roman author was condemned to exile and the confiscation of his property after he had disgraced Augustus, following which he committed suicide

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Cornelius Gallus

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167
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TU: What Roman author had a close relationship with Parthenius of Nicaea who dedicated to Gallus the Erotika pathemata, a prose collection of myths about love

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Cornelius Gallus

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168
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TU: What Roman author wrote to a woman named Delia, though her real name was Plania

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Tibullus

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169
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TU: In whose works can you find poems about the love of Sulpica for Cerinthus

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Tibullus

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170
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TU: Who writes the first six poems of book 3 of the Corpus Tibullianum to Neaera

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Lygdamus

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171
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TU: What two important manuscripts come down to us from Tibullus

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Vaticanus and Ambrosianus

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172
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TU: What Roman author wrote to Cynthia, though her real name was Hostia

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Propertius

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173
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TU: What work of Ovid, whose first two books were dedicated to men and the third to women, was written in elegiac couplets

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Ars Amatoria

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174
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TU: What work of Ovid, of which only a hundred verses remain, opposes the traditional rejection of cosmetics and explains the technique for several beauty preparations

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Medicamina Faciei Femineae

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175
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TU: What work of Ovid teaches how to heal oneself of love

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Remedia Amoris

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176
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TU: In Ovid’s Heroides, what three pairs of lovers make up the second series that have responses

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Paris and Helen; Hero and Leander; and Acontius and Cydippe

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177
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TU: What 15 book work of Ovid was prevented a final revision due to his exile

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Metamorphoses

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178
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TU: In what work of Ovid did he write “flebilis ut noster status est, ita flebile carmen” in reference to his exile

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Tristia

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179
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TU: What Roman author is described as “tersus atque elegans”

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Tibullus

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180
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TU: What Roman author wrote a funeral elegy for Cornelia

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Propertius

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181
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TU: What work of Ovid, based off Callimachus, is an invective against some enemy of his

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Ibis

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182
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TU: What two poetasters attacked Vergil

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Maevius and Bavius

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183
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TU: Who claims that the goal of poetry is to instruct and entertain in his Ars Poetica

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Horace

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184
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TU: What Roman author was born at Aquinum

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Juvenal

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185
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TU: In what satire of Juvenal does he target homosexuality

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2

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186
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TU: In what satire of Juvenal, his longest, does he target the immorality and vices of women

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6

187
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TU: In what satire of Juvenal does he describe an episode of cannibalism in Egypt

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15

188
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TU: Legacy hunters, cheats and swindlers, homosexuals, and women were all targets of what satirist

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Juvenal

189
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TU: In Juvenal’s sixth satire, what woman, the imperial prostitute, is especially targeted

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Messalina

190
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TU: What Roman author, the son of a learned schoolmaster, was born at Naples

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Statius

191
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TU: “Tanta dulcedine captos adficit ille animos” is a quote from Juvenal about what Roman author in his composing of the Silvae

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Statius

192
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TU: What Roman author recalls the Bellum Civile with his acies fraternae in his Thebaid

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Statius

193
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TU: Who uses the Aeneid as a model for one of his works though he claims that his own work should follow at a distance

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Statius

194
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TU: What work of Statius was interrupted by his death

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Achilleid

195
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TU: Who attempted to narrate the entire life of Achilles but died before he had the chance to rival Homer

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Statius

196
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TU: Who attempted to imitate Apollonius of Rhodes in telling the story of Jason’s expedition for the Golden Fleece

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Valerius Flaccus

197
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TU: What man, a lawyer and former proconsul of Asia under Vespasian, was diagnosed with an incurable disease and let himself die by starvation

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Silius Italicus

198
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TU: What is the longest and perhaps the worst Latin historical epic to come down to us

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Punica

199
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TU: About whose magnum opus did Pliny the Elder write “scribebat carmina maiore cura quam ingenio

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Silius Italicus

200
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TU: What Roman author met Domitius Corbulo, Pomponius Secundus, and the young Titus while on the frontier for military campaigns, which led him to write such works as De Iaculatione Equestri

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Pliny the Elder

201
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TU: What work of Pliny the Elder did Tacitus use as a source for his Germania

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Bella Germaniae

202
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TU: Following the death of Claudius, what author retired from public life to dedicate himself to oratory and law and wrote Studiosus, an essay in six books on rhetoric

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Pliny the Elder

203
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TU: What work of Pliny the Elder is a handbook on grammar

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Dubius Sermo

204
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TU: What work of Pliny the Elder covers the subjects of metallurgy, cosmology, anthropology, botany, and more in 37 books

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Naturalis Historiae

205
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TU: What author, a curator aquarum under Nerva, wrote a work on Rome’s water supply titled De Aquis

A

Frontinus

206
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TU: What work of Frontinus is a collection of military anecdotes in four books

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Strategemata

207
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TU: What Roman author, annoyed by city life, left Rome to stay at Forum Corneli, only to return to Rome one last time before retiring to his native Bilbilis

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Martial

208
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TU: What names are given to the last two books of Martial’s Liber Spectaculorum

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Xenia and Apophoreta

209
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TU: What Roman author, who received teaching from Remmius Palaemon and Domitius Afer, was summoned to Rome by Galba in 68 AD to begin his work as a teacher of rhetoric

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Quintilian

210
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TU: De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae, Artis Rhetoricae, and Institutio Oratoria are all works by what man

A

Quintilian

211
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TU: To whom is the Institutio Oratoria dedicated

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Victorius Marcellus

212
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TU: What Roman author, who was taught rhetoric under Quintilian and Nicetes Sacerdos, was appointed praefectus aerarii Saturni in 98 AD

A

Pliny the Younger

213
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TU: Pliny the Younger teamed up with Tacitus to bring an accusation against what man, the proconsul of Asia, for charges of corruption for which he was exiled

A

Marius Priscus

214
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TU: The tenth book of Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae consists of letters he wrote to what man and his replies

A

Trajan

215
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TU: About whom was Pliny the Younger’s Panegyricus

A

Trajan

216
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TU: In the prefatory letter of Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae, to what man does he write that the letters do not follow any chronological order

A

Septicius Clarus

217
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TU: What Roman author married the daughter of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an influential statesman

A

Tacitus

218
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TU: What is the manuscript title of Tacitus’s Germania

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De Origine et Situ Germanorum

219
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TU: Curiatus Maternus, Marius Aper, Vipstanus Messala, and Julius Secundus are all interlocutors in what work of Tacitus

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Dialogus de Oratoribus

220
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TU: Who celebrates his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola in a work titled Agricola

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Tacitus

221
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TU: What title is given to the encyclopedic work of Suetonius which was subdivided into different sections based on the subjects treated

A

Pratum (or Prata)

222
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TU: What section of Suetonius’ De Viris Illustribus is the only one still extent, though it is damaged at the end

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De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus

223
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TU: Crates of Mallus to Valerius Probus is the range of people in what section of Suetonius’ De Viris Illustribus

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De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus

224
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TU: What work of Suetonius details the lives of Roman rulers starting with Julius Caesar and ending with Domitian

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De Vita Caesarum

225
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TU: What Roman author’s father’s status as a duovir iuri dicundo allowed him to complete his studies at Carthage

A

Apuleius

226
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TU: Who had to defend himself at Sabrata due to charges of witchcraft brought about by his parents-in-law

A

Apuleius

227
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TU: Who married the widowed mother of his friend Pontianus by the name of Pudentilla

A

Apuleius

228
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TU: De Deo Socratis, De Platone et eius Dogmate, and De Mundo are philosophical works of what author

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Apuleius

229
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TU: “To the Platonic philosopher, the citizens of Madaura” is a dedication engraved on the base of a statue to what man

A

Apuleius

230
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TU: What work of Apuleius, a reworking of the pseudo-Aristotelian Peri Kosmou, discusses the forces governing the universe

A

De Mundo

231
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TU: What work of Apuleius is a collection of 23 oratorical passages from lectures and public readings he gave in Africa

A

Florida

232
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TU: Clodia for Lesbia, Hostia for Cynthia, and Plania for Delia are among the pseudonyms discussed in what work of Apuleius

A

Apologia

233
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TU: Fotis and Pamphila who are connected with transformative magic are characters in what work of Apuleius

A

Metamorphoses

234
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TU: What self-made freedman of Vicenza learned to read while he accompanied his master’s son to school

A

Remmius Palaemon

235
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TU: What megalomaniac philologist, who claimed that philology was born with him and would die with him, gave Varro the epithet “pig” and wrote an Ars Grammatica

A

Remmius Palaemon

236
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TU: What Roman author of Padua and contemporary of Remmius Palaemon writes commentaries on five speeches of Cicero

A

Asconius Pedianus

237
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TU: Contra Obtrectatores Vergilii and Vita Sallustii are works of what Roman author, who is said to have become blind at 72 and lived for another 12 years by Jerome

A

Asconius Pedianus

238
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TU: Emendare, distinguere, and adnotare are among the work of what Roman author who comes closest to employing the tactics practiced by modern philologists

A

Valerius Probus

239
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TU: What Roman author, a native of Cirta who educated Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, wrote a miscellany of minor writings such as letters to and from members of the imperial family

A

Fronto

240
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TU: What Roman author, taught by Sulpicius Apollinaris, took a collection of notes on evenings during a winter spent in Athens

A

Aulus Gellius

241
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TU: What pupil of Javolenus Priscus, who was the head of the Sabinian school in the Trajanic period, was entrusted by Hadrian with completing the revision of the edictum praetorium

A

Salvius Julianus

242
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TU: What 90 book work of Salvius Julianus is a systematic, large-scale survey of civil and praetorian law

A

Digesta

243
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TU: Which books of the Ab Urbe Condita are preserved

A

1-10 and 21-45

244
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TU: Which two books of the Ab Urbe Condita lack any periochae

A

136 and 137

245
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TU: What author is seen as an exornator rerum in his dramatic interpretations of his history possibly because he strayed away from public office in Rome

A

Livy

246
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TU: Valerius Antias, Licinius Macer, and Claudius Quadrigarius were all sources used by what Roman author for his Ab Urbe Condita

A

Livy

247
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TU: Who challenged Livy’s style of Patavinitas

A

Asinius Pollio

248
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TU: What Roman author is Augustus said to have jokingly called a Pompeian because of his nostalgic sympathy towards republican ideals

A

Livy

249
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TU: What Roman author was born in Teate

A

Asinius Pollio

250
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TU: Whose histories, begun in the year of Sallust’s death, covered the period of the first triumvirate to the battle of Philippi

A

Asinius Pollio

251
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TU: According to Asinius Pollio, what Roman author lacked diligentia and regard for the historical truth

A

Julius Caesar

252
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TU: According to Asinius Pollio, what Roman author lacked a sense of correct and pure Latinitas

A

Cicero

253
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TU: According to Seneca the Elder, few writers could escape the censure of what author’s strictum et asperum et nimis iratum iudicium

A

Asinius Pollio

254
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TU: What Roman author wrote the Historiae Philippicae

A

Pompeius Trogus

255
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TU: What 44 book work, written by Pompeius Trogus, is a genuine universal history that extended from the earliest oevents of Babylon to the author’s own day

A

Historiae Philippicae

256
Q

TU: What Roman author depended on the works of Timagenes, who was hostile to Rome, in his writing of his histories

A

Pompeius Trogus

257
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TU: What Roman author was born in Aeclanum in Irpinia

A

Velleius Paterculus

258
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote a two book history dedicated to Marcus Vinicius

A

Velleius Paterculus

259
Q

TU: In his Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium, what Roman author heaps large amounts of praise for Tiberius shortly after the death of Sejanus

A

Valerius Maximus

260
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote Exempla, a handbook of models of vices and virtues intended for the use of the rhetorical schools

A

Valerius Maximus

261
Q

TU: De humanitate et clementia, De religione, and De patientia are all chapters of what work of Valerius Maximus

A

Exempla

262
Q

TU: What Roman author killed himself in the tomb of his ancestors after his work was publically burnt

A

Titus Labienus

263
Q

TU: What Roman author, whose Annales glorified Brutus and termed Cassius the last of the Romans, killed himself during a trial that had been set in motion against him by Sejanus

A

Cremutius Cordus

264
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote Historiae Alexandri Magni

A

Curtius Rufus

265
Q

TU: What Roman author, the greatest grammarian of his age, did Augustus choose as tutor for his grandsons Lucius and Gaius

A

Verrius Flaccus

266
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Praeneste

A

Verrius Flaccus

267
Q

TU: What work of Verrius Flaccus is an alphabetic glossary of difficult or obsolete terms

A

De Verborum Significatu

268
Q

TU: While the original De Verborum Significatu of Verrius Flaccus is lost, what later grammarian’s abridgment of the work is still extant

A

(Sextus Pompeius) Festus

269
Q

TU: What ten book work of Vitruvius Pollio did he dedicate to Augustus

A

De Architectura

270
Q

TU: What Roman author had been entrusted with constructing war machines as an officer in Caesar’s engineering corps

A

Vitruvius

271
Q

TU: What Roman author composed a book of prescriptions titled Compositiones, written without literary pretensions and intended only for practical use

A

Scribonius Largus

272
Q

TU: Under the name of what doctor of Augustus and Horace does a work entitled De Herba Vettonica come down to modern day, though it is a work of a later period

A

Antonius Musa

273
Q

TU: What native of Gades wrote De Re Rustica

A

Columella

274
Q

TU: What is the only book that remains from the first edition of Columella’s De Re Rustica

A

De Arboribus

275
Q

TU: Which book of his De Re Rustica does Columella treat as an homage to the tradition of Vergil’s Eclogues

A

(10th) De Cultu Hortorum

276
Q

TU: What author, a Spaniard from Tingerenta, is known as a pure geographer

A

Pomponius Mela

277
Q

TU: What geographic work of Pomponius Mela in 3 books is preserved

A

Chorographia

278
Q

TU: One book on sauces and another on the complete preparation of certain dishes make up the nucleus of what work of Apicius

A

De Re Coquinaria

279
Q

TU: What Roman author, who was accustomed to spending six months in Rome teaching and six months in the country writing, wrote works such as Pithana, Responsa, Epistulae, and De Iure Pontificio

A

Antistius Labeo

280
Q

TU: What opponent of Antistius Labeo wrote works such as De Iure Pontificio, De Iure Sacrificiorum, and Coniectanea

A

Gaius Ateius Capito

281
Q

TU: Who wrote a work titled Oratorum et Rhetorum Sententiae Divisiones Colores that describes the spread of the exercise of declamatio

A

Seneca the Elder

282
Q

TU: In which of his works does Seneca the Elder describe fictitious cases based upon Roman or Greek law or upon imaginary legislation

A

Controversiae

283
Q

TU: In which of his works does Seneca the Elder describe an orator’s attempt to guide the action of a historical or mythological figure through a difficult situation

A

Suasoriae

284
Q

TU: Attalus and Papirius Fabianus were teachers of what author who came to Rome from his hometown of Cordoba

A

Seneca the Younger

285
Q

TU: What Roman author was accused by Claudius of involvement in the adultery of Julia Livilla

A

Seneca the Younger

286
Q

TU: What Roman author was banished to Corsica until Agrippina convinced Claudius to let him return to tutor the young Nero

A

Seneca the Younger

287
Q

TU: What work of Seneca the Younger is a philosophical work on ethical and psychological questions in 12 books

A

Dialogi

288
Q

TU: Which of the books of Seneca’s Dialogi was addressed to the daughter of Cremutius Cordus

A

Consolatio ad Marciam

289
Q

TU: Which of the books of Seneca’s Dialogi was written to reassure his mother of her exiled son’s wellbeing on Corsica

A

Ad Helviam Matrem

290
Q

TU: Which of the books of Seneca’s Dialogi was addressed to a freedman of Claudius in order to console him for the loss of a brother

A

Ad Polybium

291
Q

TU: What work of Seneca the Younger, dedicated to his brother Novatus, analyzes the origins of human emotions and how to control them

A

De Ira

292
Q

TU: What work of Seneca the Younger addresses the problem of happiness and the role that comfort and wealth can play in achieving it

A

De Vita Beata

293
Q

TU: What work of Seneca the Younger advocates for a middle ground between leisure and active engagement in Roman society

A

De Tranquillitate Animi

294
Q

TU: What work of Seneca the Younger, the only scientific work of his, was dedicated to Lucilius

A

Naturales Quaestiones

295
Q

TU: What 7 book work of Seneca the Younger, dedicated to Aebutius Liberalis, discusses acts of kindness and their effects

A

De Beneficiis

296
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote the laudatio funebris for Claudius, which confounds the reasoning for his writing of the Apocolocyntosis

A

Seneca the Younger

297
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote a short didactic poem on hunting entitled Cynegetica, in which there are Vergilian influences

A

Grattius

298
Q

TU: What Roman author’s use of the word nostri when describing the Faliscans leads to the addition of Faliscus to his name

A

Grattius

299
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote an epigram on the death of Tibullus

A

Domitius Marsus

300
Q

TU: What author wrote a 5 book didactic poem on astronomy

A

Manilius

301
Q

TU: Zodiac signs, the twelve athla, the locus Fortunae, stars, and planets are all contained in what work of Manilius

A

Astronomica

302
Q

TU: Who, an elegant rival of Vergil and Ovid, wrote a poem dealing with Germanicus’s adventurous expedition to the northern seas

A

Albinovanus Pedo

303
Q

TU: Who wrote a historical poem titled Res Romanae in which the death of Cicero and the war between Octavian and Sextus Pompey are contained

A

Cornelius Severus

304
Q

TU: Quintilian terms what Roman author as a better versificator than a poeta

A

Cornelius Severus

305
Q

TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana is an invective that may be two poems joined together

A

Dirae

306
Q

TU: Which of the works of the Appendix Vergiliana is a collection of 15 poems one of which is a panegyric for Messalla

A

Catalepton

307
Q

TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana is a miniature epic as an epyllion in hexameters that deals with a mosquito saving the life of a shepherd only to be repaid with death at the hands of the shepherd

A

Culex

308
Q

TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana tells the love story of Scylla who betrays her father for Minos

A

Ciris

309
Q

TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana tells the story of a lady innkeeper who draws people to her business by dancing

A

Copa

310
Q

TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana describes the morning routine of a peasant

A

Moretum

311
Q

TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana recalls the death of Augustus’ most influential advisor

A

Elegiae in Maecenatem

312
Q

TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana imitates Manilius and describes causes and phenomena of volcanoes

A

Aetna

313
Q

TU: Whose works can be found in the Appendix Perottina

A

Phaedrus

314
Q

TU: Who wrote eclogues inspired by those of Vergil which provide the first instance of an allegorical conception of pastoral poetry

A

Calpurnius Siculus

315
Q

TU: What work’s ideas did Nero scorn due to their clear Republican ideals in depicting the civil war between Caesar and Pompey

A

Bellum Civile

316
Q

TU: On April 30th 65 AD, what Roman author took his life at just 25 years old as a result of his supposed involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy without finishing his Pharsalia

A

Lucan

317
Q

TU: Who recited laudes at the Neronia of 60 AD which he had written specifically for the occasion

A

Lucan

318
Q

TU: Catachthonion, Iliacon, De Incendio Urbis, and Medea were all written by what author of the Silver Age

A

Lucan

319
Q

TU: What work, considered by some to be anti-Aeneid, in 10 books describes Pompey and Caesar’s conflict

A

Bellum Civile

320
Q

TU: Ardens et concitatus was a term used by Quintilian to describe what Roman author

A

Lucan

321
Q

TU: Who is the narrator of Petronius’ Satyricon

A

Encolpius

322
Q

TU: What two characters in Petronius’ Satyricon appear in every scene

A

Encolpius and Giton

323
Q

TU: What character in Petronius’ Satyricon is a teacher of rhetoric

A

Agamemnon

324
Q

TU: What character in Petronius’ Satyricon quarrels with Encolpius and captures Giton

A

Ascyltos

325
Q

TU: What character in Petronius’ Satyricon is the wife of Trimalchio

A

Fortunata

326
Q

TU: What character in Petronius’ Satyricon is an elderly poet who comes across Encolpius soon after Giton was captured

A

Eumolpus

327
Q

TU: Valerius Probus informs us of the life of what Roman author with Etruscan origin who was born at Volterra

A

Persius

328
Q

TU: Scriptitavit et raro et tarde is used to describe what Roman author which accounts for his only writing 6 books of satires in his lifetime

A

Persius

329
Q

TU: What friend of Persius saw to the publication of his works after they had been revised by Cornutus

A

Caesius Bassus

330
Q

TU: Who claims for himself the quality of rusticitas, which coincides with his self-proclaiming of semipaganus

A

Persius

331
Q

TU: What Roman author who practiced as a lawyer in Africa and in Rome, became an adherent of the Montanists, known for intransigence and fanaticism, before abandoning them and founding his own sect

A

Tertullian

332
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian is an exhortation to a group of imprisoned Christians

A

Ad Matyras

333
Q

TU: Ad Nationes, De Testimonio Animae, and the Apologeticum were all composed in 197 AD by what author to defend Christianity from the attacks of the pagans

A

Tertullian

334
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian attacks Christians who contaminated their faith with pagan philosophical doctrines and proposed excessively free interpretations of the Bible

A

De Praescriptione Haeriticorum

335
Q

TU: In what work of Tertullian, perhaps the most notable work in his maturity, does he rework pagan sources

A

De Anima

336
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian addresses the governor of Africa Proconsularis

A

Ad Scapulam

337
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian discusses theater, the amphitheater, and the circus

A

De Spectaculis

338
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian discusses the clothing of women, which he believes should be particularly modest

A

De Cultu Feminarum

339
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian discusses the appropriateness of a woman’s leaving the house with her face uncovered

A

De Virginibus Velandis

340
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian discusses sexual relations outside of marriage

A

De Pudicitia

341
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian discusses military service, which is declared to be incompatible with allegiance to the Christian faith

A

De Corona

342
Q

TU: What work of Tertullian warns against all economic activities connected with the pagan cults

A

De Idololatria

343
Q

TU: What Roman author’s habit of demonizing all that is feminine and accusing woman of being Satan’s most dangerous instrument is made evident in his works on the modesty of women

A

Tertullian

344
Q

TU: The discussion of anima naturaliter Christiana can be found in what work of Tertullian

A

Apologeticum

345
Q

TU: What Christian author was born at Cirta, the same city as Fronto’s birth

A

Minucius Felix

346
Q

TU: What Roman author contrasts Tertullian’s crudity with his logic and calm reasoning in the writing of his Octavius

A

Minucius Felix

347
Q

TU: What Carthage born author was a renowned teacher of rhetoric until 246 AD when he gave all his goods to the poor

A

Cyprian

348
Q

TU: Although he was able to fight against the persecution of Decius, what Roman author could not escape the wrath of Valerian who condemned him to death in 258 AD

A

Cyprian

349
Q

TU: What work of Cyprian on his own conversion served as a precedent for Augustine’s confessions

A

Ad Donatum

350
Q

TU: What work of Cyprian discusses the attacks of the pagans and divine punishment

A

Ad Demetrianum

351
Q

TU: What work of Cyprian discuses the attitude Christians who denied their faith during the prosecutions must adopt

A

De Lapsis

352
Q

TU: What work of Cyprian is a firm stand against all heresies and schisms

A

De Catholicae Ecclesiae Unitate

353
Q

TU: What work of Cyprian discusses the rules of conduct that women who have vowed to consecrate themselves to God must follow

A

De Habitu Virginum

354
Q

TU: What deacon and friend of Cyprian wrote a Vita Cypriani, the first Latin example of a biography of a bishop or saint

A

Pontius

355
Q

TU: What Roman author, who sided against Cyprian regarding the lapsi, had a principal work titled De Trinitate

A

Novatianus

356
Q

TU: What Roman author, clearly inspired by Tertullian, wrote a De Spectaculis and a De Bono Pudicitiae

A

Novatianus

357
Q

TU: What author of Poetovium who died as a martyr as a result of Diocletian’s persecutions, wrote many biblical commentaries, of which only one on Revelations remains

A

Victorinus

358
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Gaza

A

Commodian

359
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote 2 books of poems in the style of acrostics

A

Commodian

360
Q

TU: What work of Commodian consists of 2 books of poems, the first of which against the pagans and Jews and the second of which for Christians seeking a more devout life

A

Instructiones

361
Q

TU: What work of Commodian is a history of the world, which is seen as a clash between God and the devil

A

Carmen Apologeticum

362
Q

TU: To what author is the Pervigilium Veneris often attributed

A

Florus

363
Q

TU: The refrain “Cras amet qui numquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet” is found in what work

A

Pervigilium Veneris

364
Q

TU: What Roman author, drawing from the eighth book of Homer’s Odyssey, wrote the De Concubitu Martis et Veneris on Vulcan’s trick on Mars and Venus

A

Reposianus

365
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote a satirical poem on a cook and a baker arguing over the superiority of their callings titled Iudicium Coci et Pistoris Iudice Vulcano

A

Vespa

366
Q

TU: De Litteris, De Syllabis, and De Metris are works by what author

A

Terentius Maurus

367
Q

TU: What Roman author was inspired by Grattius Faliscus in the composition of his Cynegetica on hunting

A

Nemesianus

368
Q

TU: Who opens his most ambitious work with a long proem that belongs to the genre of the recusatio in which he declares that he does not want and does not know how to write other genres of poetry

A

Nemesianus

369
Q

TU: What Roman author was a friend of Septimius Severus, but ran into troubles with Caracalla which led to his death in 212

A

Aemilius Papinian

370
Q

TU: What Roman author, whose works include 37 books of Quaestiones and 19 books of Responsa, had a profound influence on jurisprudence and legislation

A

Aemilius Papinian

371
Q

TU: What Roman author is a Phoenician from Tyre

A

Domitius Ulpian

372
Q

TU: Ad Edictum Praetoris, Ad Masurium Sabinum, Liber Singularis, Regularum, Disputationes, Responsa, and Institutiones are all works of what Roman author who enjoyed great favor at the court of Caracalla and Severus Alexander

A

Domitius Ulpian

373
Q

TU: Although it was known as Polyhistor in the Middle Ages, whose Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium was concerned with geography

A

Gaius Julius Solinus

374
Q

TU: What late Latin author of African descent wrote a 20 book treatise on grammar titled De Compendiosa Doctrina dedicated to his son

A

Nonius Marcellus

375
Q

TU: What Roman author, who had Jerome among his pupils at Rome, composed an Ars Minor and Ars Maior on grammar

A

Aelius Donatus

376
Q

TU: Commentaries on Terence and Vergil are attributed to what author who is better known for his extensive grammar textbooks

A

Aelius Donatus

377
Q

TU: Who is the author of Interpretationes Vergilianae, a work divided into 12 books for each book of the Aeneid

A

Tiberius Claudius Donatus

378
Q

TU: What Roman author, who was probably a pupil of Aelius Donatus, wrote a commentary on Vergil and is remembered in Macrobius’ Saturnalia

A

Servius

379
Q

TU: What Roman author was closely affiliated with the Symmachi family

A

Macrobius

380
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote a commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, a long passage from the last book of Cicero’s De Republica

A

Macrobius

381
Q

TU: To what son did Macrobius dedicate his commentary on Cicero and the Saturnalia

A

Eustathius

382
Q

TU: A treatise on Greek and Latin words titled De Differentiis et Societatibus Graeci Latinique Verbi was written by what author and dedicated to a member of the Symmachi family

A

Macrobius

383
Q

TU: What work of Latin literature is a dialogue at the house of Vetteius Praetextatus in 7 books during a Roman festival

A

Saturnalia

384
Q

TU: What Roman author, whose father was an important senator named Phosphorius, held the proconsulate of Africa and prefecture of Rome and wrote panegyrics to Valentinian and Gratian

A

Symmachus

385
Q

TU: Epitome Rei Militaris, a treatise on recruiting, formations, the tactics of battle and siege, and naval engagements, and veterinary work titled Mulomedicina are among the works of what Roman author

A

Vegetius

386
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Sicca Veneria

A

Arnobius

387
Q

TU: What 7 book work of Arnobius expounds Christian doctrine and refutes doctrines of polytheism

A

Adversus Nationes

388
Q

TU: What Roman author, a pupil of Arnobius, taught Latin rhetoric at Nicomedia before being chosen by Constantine as a tutor for his son Crispus

A

Lactantius

389
Q

TU: What work of Lactantius describes his voyage from Africa to Bithynia

A

Hodoeporicum

390
Q

TU: What work of Lactantius discusses the perfect harmony of nature and immortality of the soul

A

De Opificio Dei

391
Q

TU: What work of Lactantius consists of 7 books dedicated to Constantine

A

Divinae Institutiones

392
Q

TU: What work of Lactantius discusses the necessity for God to grow angry against the wicked in order to demonstrate his love for the good

A

De Ira Dei

393
Q

TU: What work of Lactantius records the deaths of all persecuted Christians

A

De Mortibus Persecutorum

394
Q

TU: What work of Lactantius is an elegy on the phoenix, the symbol of Christ

A

De Ave Phoenice

395
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Syracuse

A

Firmicus Maternus

396
Q

TU: What Roman author wrote the most complete Latin treatise on astrology that has come down to us titled Matheseos Libri VIII

A

Firmicus Maternus

397
Q

TU: What work of Firmicus Maternus on the refutation of paganism did he dedicate to Constantius and Constantine

A

De Errore Profanarum Religionum

398
Q

TU: At the request of Valens, what Roman author depends on Livy and Suetonius for the composition of his Breviarum ab Urbe Condita

A

Eutropius

399
Q

TU: What Roman author, appointed magister memoriae by Valens, took part in Julian’s expedition against the Parthians and wrote a history covering the period from Romulus to the death of Jovian in 364 AD

A

Eutropius

400
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Antioch in Syria

A

Ammianus Marcellinus

401
Q

TU: What Roman author continues the history of Tacitus starting with the reign of Nerva to the death of Valens at Adrianople in his Rerum Gestarum Libri XXXI

A

Ammianus Marcellinus

402
Q

TU: Aelius Lampridius, Volcacius Gallicanus, Aelius Spartianus, Flavius Vopiscus, Julius Capitolinus, and Trebellius Pollio are all said to be authors of what work

A

Historia Augusta

403
Q

TU: The Vita Diversorum Principum et Tyranorum is the manuscript title of what work which is a collection of biographies meant to include the lives of Nerva to the immediate predecessors of Diocletian

A

Historia Augusta

404
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Burdigala, which is now Bordeaux

A

Ausonius

405
Q

TU: What Roman author studied at Tolosa then Bordeaux before teaching the future emperor Gratian

A

Ausonius

406
Q

TU: What work of Ausonius honors people in their daily occupations

A

Commemoratio Professorum Burdigalensium

407
Q

TU: What work of Ausonius discusses some of the most typical subjects of instruction such as the labors of Hercules, the parts of the year, and how mankind became honest

A

Eclogarum Liber

408
Q

TU: What work of Ausonius is a genuine plan of study to be followed for cultural education

A

Protepticus ad Nepotem

409
Q

TU: Griphus Ternarii Numeri, Cento Nuptialis, and Grammaticomastix are all written by what Roman author

A

Ausonius

410
Q

TU: In what work of Ausonius does he describe the typical day of a high imperial bureaucrat

A

Ephemeris

411
Q

TU: What Roman author, who was accused by Orosius of being a paganus pervicacissimus, was born at Alexandria

A

Claudian

412
Q

TU: What Roman emperor went to the court of Honorius at Milan in 395 where he was connected to the general Stilicho and had a statue of him built in the forum in 400

A

Claudian

413
Q

TU: Poems for Honorius and Stilcho and poems on the Gigantomachy are among the works of what Roman author

A

Claudian

414
Q

TU: Whose official debut as a Latin poet had taken place at Rome with his panegyric for Probinus and Olybrius, but is more famous for a poem on mythology titled De Raptu Proserpinae

A

Claudian

415
Q

TU: What late Roman author, along with his Descriptio Orbis Terrae and Ora Maritima, translated Aratus’s Phaenomena, which had already been done by Cicero and Germanicus

A

Rufius Festus Avienus

416
Q

TU: What work of Prudentius consists of 12 hymns, 6 to be sung on various parts of the day and 6 to be sung at particular Christian holidays or festivals

A

Cathemerinon

417
Q

TU: What work Prudentius deals with the mysteries of the Trinity and of Christ’s Passion

A

Apotheosis

418
Q

TU: What work of Prudentius discusses the struggle between the virtues and the vices in the human soul

A

Psychomachia

419
Q

TU: What work of Prudentius discuses the Altar of Victory, which the Christians remove against the Pagans’ wishes

A

Contra Symmachum

420
Q

TU: What work of Prudentius consists of 14 hymns in honor of Christian martyrs

A

Peristephanon

421
Q

TU: What work of Prudentius consists of 48 strophes on episodes of the Old and New Testaments

A

Dittochaeon

422
Q

TU: What Roman author, who was a pupil of Ausonius, was born at Burdigala

A

Paulinus of Nola

423
Q

TU: What Roman author became the governor of Campania until he married the Spanish Therasia when he retired first to Spain then to Nola

A

Paulinus of Nola

424
Q

TU: To what patron of Paulinus of Nola does he dedicate about half of his poems and is celebrated every year on the occasion of his natalicium, day of martyrdom

A

St. Felix

425
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Treviri

A

Ambrose

426
Q

TU: What Roman author was sent as a consularis Liguriae et Aemiliae to Milan as basically a governor of all northern Italy

A

Ambrose

427
Q

TU: After the death of the Arian Auxentius, what Roman author became the bishop of Milan

A

Ambrose

428
Q

TU: What work of Ambrose consists of 6 books with 9 speeches on Creation

A

Hexameron

429
Q

TU: In what work of Ambrose does he deal with the Trinitarian theology in three books

A

De Fide

430
Q

TU: In what work of Ambrose does he discuss sin and grace

A

De Paenitentia

431
Q

TU: In what work inspired by Cicero does Ambrose list the duties of priests and provide Christians with precepts for living

A

De Officiis Ministrorum

432
Q

TU: In what work does Ambrose discuss the relationship between the wealthy and the poor and property

A

De Nabuthae

433
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Stridon in Dalmatia

A

Jerome

434
Q

TU: What Roman author, whose teachers included Marius Victorinus and Donatus, was chosen by Pope Damasus as his secretary

A

Jerome

435
Q

TU: What Roman author, who met his future enemy Rufinus while at schooling, died at Bethlehem

A

Jerome

436
Q

TU: From St. Peter to the author himself, who composed 135 biographies of Christian writers titled De Viris Illustribus

A

Jerome

437
Q

TU: What work of Jerome translates, expands, and updates the work of Eusebius with the same title including many important notices on ancient Latin authors

A

Chronicon

438
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Thagaste

A

Augustine

439
Q

TU: While reading Cicero’s Hortensius, what Roman author subscribed to Manichaeism at a young age before converting to Christianity at Milan after listening to his mother and the sermons of Ambrose

A

Augustine

440
Q

TU: What Roman author became bishop of Hippo in 395 where he died after it was besieged by the Vandals led by Genseric in 430

A

Augustine

441
Q

TU: What work of Augustine in 13 books is a praise, exaltation of God written in the first years of his episcopate

A

Confessiones

442
Q

TU: A description of two cities, one belonging to God and the other to the devil, can be found on what 22 book work of Augustine defending Christians and blaming Pagans

A

De Civitate Dei

443
Q

TU: Urged by the death of his wife and the suggestions of Paulinus of Nola, what Roman author took up the ascetic life and traveled to Tours where he met the bishop Martin who heavily influenced his future works

A

Sulpicius Severus

444
Q

TU: What work of Martianus Capella is a 9 book encyclopedia of classical learning

A

De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae

445
Q

TU: In the first two books of what Latin work is there a wedding in Jupiter’s galactic palace before shifting focus to 7 of the 9 liberal arts from Varro’s Disciplinarum Libri as Mercury’s wedding gift to Philology

A

De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae

446
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Tarragona

A

Orosius

447
Q

TU: Whose first work, the Commonitorium de Errore Priscillianistarum et Origenistarum, was on the heresies most widespread in Spain and dedicated to Augustine?

A

Orosius

448
Q

TU: What 7 book work of Orosius, his principal work, was requested by Augustine as a collection of material for his own De Civitate Dei

A

Historiae adversus Paganos

449
Q

TU: What Roman author recounts his sea voyage from Ostia to the northern part of Tuscany in his two book work of elegiac couplets titled De Reditu Suo

A

Rutilius Namatianus

450
Q

TU: What Roman author, who lived in Ravenna at the court of Valentinian III and had Aetius has his patron, was recognized with a state in the Forum of Trajan

A

Merobaudes

451
Q

TU: Although often attributed to Claudian, what is chief work of Merobaudes

A

De Christo

452
Q

TU: What Roman author was born at Lyon

A

Sidonius Apollinaris

453
Q

TU: What Roman author, who married a daughter of the emperor Avitus, was consul in 468 and a later prefect before abandoning politics for an ecclesiastical career as he became a bishop of Auvergne

A

Sidonius Apollinaris

454
Q

TU: 24 carmina divided into panegyrics to the emperors Avitus, Majorian, and Anthemius and 9 books of letters among which is a praise of Euric are among the works of what Roman author

A

Sidonius Apollinaris

455
Q

TU: What Roman author, born at Rome around 480, was accused of conspiring against Theodoric and was imprisoned and put to death in 524

A

Boethius

456
Q

TU: The Institutio Arithmetica and the De Institutione Musica belong to an encyclopedic corpus of what author

A

Boethius

457
Q

TU: De Differentiis Topicis and De Divisione are two writings on syllogism by what Roman author

A

Boethius

458
Q

TU: What work of Boethius, which in form is a Menippean satire, is a dialogue between philosophy and the imprisoned author

A

De Consolatione Philosophiae

459
Q

TU: What Roman author, who replaced Boethius as magister officiorum, was born at Squillace

A

Cassiodorus

460
Q

TU: Who, at the age of 92, composed a De Orthographia for the use of monks at Vivarium

A

Cassiodorus

461
Q

TU: What Roman author modeled his own Chronica off of Jerome in his surveying of events from Adam to the year 519

A

Cassiodorus

462
Q

TU: What work of Cassiodorus is a two book encyclopedic handbook devoted to sacred and profane literature

A

Institutiones

463
Q

TU: What work of Cassiodorus is a historical work in 12 books on the Goths

A

De Origine Actibusque Getarum

464
Q

TU: Aelius Paetus, Sulpicius Rufus

A

Historiae Augusta

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