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Latin Literature Flashcards

1
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In which year did Suetonius die?

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130 AD

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Give the full name of Tacitus.

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Publius/Gaius Cornelius Tacitus

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3
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Who wrote Naturales Quaestiones?

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Seneca the Younger

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4
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Who wrote Miles Gloriosus?

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Plautus

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5
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In which year did Silius Italicus die?

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101 AD

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6
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In which year was Caesar born?

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100 BC

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7
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Who wrote Pharsalia?

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Lucan

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8
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Who wrote De Senectute?

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Cicero

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9
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Where was Tibullus born?

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Pedum

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10
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Who wrote The Golden Ass?

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Apuleius

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11
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Where was Pliny the Younger born?

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Comum

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12
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Who wrote Amphitryon?

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Plautus

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13
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Who wrote Apologia?

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Apuleius

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14
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In which year did Quintillian die?

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100 AD

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15
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In which year was Ovid born?

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43 BC

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16
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In which year was Terence born?

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195 BC

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17
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Give the full name of Apuleius.

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Lucius Apuleius

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18
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Who wrote De Viris Illustribus?

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Suetonius

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19
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Who wrote Thebaid?

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Statius

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20
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In which year did Caesar die?

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44 BC

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21
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In which year was Cato the Elder born?

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234 BC

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22
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Where was Accius born?

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Pisaurum (in Umbria)

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23
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Who wrote Adelphi?

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Terence

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24
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In which year was Accius born?

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170 BC

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25
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In which year did Statius die?

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96 AD

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26
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In which year did Varro die?

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27 BC

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27
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Give the full name of Suetonius.

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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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28
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In which year was Silius Italicus born?

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26 AD

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29
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Give the full name of Persius.

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Aulus Persius Flaccus

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30
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Where was Vergil born?

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Mantua/Andes

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31
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Who wrote Epidicus?

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Plautus

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32
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Where was Plautus born?

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Sarsina (in Umbria)

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33
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Where was Apuleius born?

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Madaura

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34
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Give the full name of Statius.

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Publius Papinius Statius

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35
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In which year did Plautus die?

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184 BC

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36
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In which year did Lucretius die?

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55 BC

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37
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Who wrote Sermones?

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Horace

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38
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Give the full name of Lucretius.

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Titus Lucretius Carus

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39
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Who wrote Mostellaria?

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Plautus

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40
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In which year did Livius Andronicus die?

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204 BC

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41
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In which year was Lucan born?

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39 AD

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42
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In which year was Persius born?

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34 AD

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43
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Where was Lactantius born?

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North Africa

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44
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In which year did Propertius die?

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16 BC

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45
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Give the full name of Caesar.

A

Gaius Iulius Caesar

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46
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Where was Horace born?

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Venusia

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47
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In which year did Pliny the Younger die?

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113 AD

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48
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In which year was Naevius born?

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270 BC

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49
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In which year did Cornelius Gallus die?

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26 BC

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50
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Give the full name of Sallust.

A

Gaius Sallustius Crispus

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51
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Who wrote Bellum Jugurthinum?

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Sallust

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52
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In which year was Pliny the Younger born?

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61 AD

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53
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Who wrote Annales?

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Tacitus (Ennius wrote one as well)

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54
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In which year was Varro born?

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116 BC

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55
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Who wrote Georgics?

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Vergil

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56
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Who wrote Origines?

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Cato the Elder

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57
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Where was Seneca the Younger born?

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Corduba (Spain)

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58
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In which year was Aulus Gellius born?

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circa 130 AD

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59
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Where was Lucan born?

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Corduba (Spain)

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60
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Where was Juvenal born?

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Aquinum

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61
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Where was Persius born?

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Volaterae (in Etruria)

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62
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Give the full name of Cornelius Gallus.

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Gaius Cornelius Gallus

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63
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Who wrote Phormio?

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Terence

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64
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Where was Catullus born?

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Verona

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65
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Who wrote Medea?

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Seneca the Younger

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66
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In which year was Cornelius Nepos born?

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100 BC

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67
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In which year was Lactantius born?

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circa 245 AD

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68
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Who wrote Historiae?

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Sallust (Tacitus wrote one as well)

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69
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Where was Ovid born?

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Sulmo

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70
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In which year was Augustine born?

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354 AD

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71
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In which year was Tertullian born?

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160 AD

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72
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Who wrote Comentarii de Bello Civili?

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Caesar

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73
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Give the full name of Livy.

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Titus Livius

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74
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Who wrote Octavia?

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Seneca the Younger

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75
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In which year was Sallust born?

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86 BC

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76
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In which year did Pacuvius die?

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130 BC

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77
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In which year did Cato the Elder die?

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149 BC

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78
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In which year did Tibullus die?

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19 BC

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79
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Give the full name of Petronius.

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Petronius Arbiter

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80
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Where was Augustine born?

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Thagaste

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81
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In which year was Lucilius born?

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180 BC

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82
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Who wrote Liber Spectaculorum?

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Martial

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83
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In which year was Propertius born?

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50 BC

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84
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In which year did Pliny the Elder die?

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79 AD

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85
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In which year did Vergil die?

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19 BC

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86
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Where was Ennius born?

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Rudiae (in Calabria)

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87
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Who wrote Apocolocyntosis?

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Seneca the Younger

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88
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Give the full name of Tibullus.

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Albius Tibullus

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89
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In which year did Aulus Gellius die?

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180 AD

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90
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In which year was Juvenal born?

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60 AD

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91
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Who wrote Poenulus?

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Plautus

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92
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Who wrote Institutio Oratoria?

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Quintillian

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93
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Who wrote Hecyra?

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Terence

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94
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Who wrote Andria?

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Terence

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95
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In which year was Caecilius Statius born?

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219 BC

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96
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Who wrote Germania?

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Tacitus

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97
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Where was Tertullian born?

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Carthage

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98
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In which year was Horace born?

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65 BC

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99
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In which year was Ennius born?

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239 BC

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100
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Who wrote Heauton Timorumenos?

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Terence

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101
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Give the full name of Accius.

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Lucius Attius Accius

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102
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In which year did Martial die?

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104 AD

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103
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In which year did Cicero die?

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43 BC

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104
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In which year was Suetonius born?

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circa 70 AD

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105
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In which year was Tibullus born?

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55 BC

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106
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In which year did Lucilius die?

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102 BC

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107
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Give the full name of Ennius.

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Quintus Ennius

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108
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Who wrote Ab Urbe Condita?

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Livy

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109
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Where was Statius born?

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Naples

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110
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Who wrote De Re Publica?

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Cicero

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111
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In which year was Cornelius Gallus born?

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69 BC

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112
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Who wrote Menaechmi?

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Plautus

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113
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In which year did Cornelius Nepos die?

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25 BC

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114
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In which year did Sallust die?

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35 BC

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115
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Give the full name of Varro.

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Marcus Terentius Varro

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116
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In which year did Augustine die?

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430 AD

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117
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In which year was Livius Andronicus born?

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284 BC

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118
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In which year was Pacuvius born?

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220 BC

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119
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Who wrote Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino?

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Cicero

120
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Give the full name of Plautus.

A

Titus Maccius Plautus

121
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In which year was Cicero born?

A

106 BC

122
Q

Who wrote De Architectura?

A

Vitruvius

123
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Where was Livy born?

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Patavium (Padua)

124
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Where was Lucretius born?

A

Rome

125
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Who wrote Achilleid?

A

Statius

126
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Where was Sallust born?

A

Amiternum

127
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Give the full name of Martial.

A

Marcus Valerius Martialis

128
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Who wrote Commentarii de Bello Gallico?

A

Caesar

129
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Where was Quintillian born?

A

Calagurris (in Spain)

130
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Where was Caesar born?

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Rome

131
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In which year did Tertullian die?

A

circa 225 AD

132
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In which year was Plautus born?

A

254 BC

133
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In which year did Lactantius die?

A

circa 325 AD

134
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Who wrote De Agri Cultura?

A

Cato the Elder

135
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Where was Propertius born?

A

Assisium (Assisi)

136
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In which year did Juvenal die?

A

130 AD

137
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In which year was Seneca the Younger born?

A

4 BC

138
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Give the full name of Propertius.

A

Sextus Propertius

139
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In which year did Persius die?

A

62 AD

140
Q

Who wrote De Rerum Natura?

A

Lucretius

141
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Who wrote Agricola?

A

Tacitus

142
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Who wrote Pseudolus?

A

Plautus

143
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Where was Cicero born?

A

Arpinum

144
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Where was Caecilius Statius born?

A

Mediolanum

145
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Where was Cornelius Nepos born?

A

Cisalpine Gaul

146
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In which year was Livy born?

A

59 BC

147
Q

Who wrote Pro Quinctio?

A

Cicero

148
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In which year was Pliny the Elder born?

A

23 AD

149
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In which year did Terence die?

A

159 BC

150
Q

In which year was Tacitus born?

A

55 AD

151
Q

Where was Naevius born?

A

Campania

152
Q

Where was Martial born?

A

Bilbilis (Spain)

153
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Where was Varro born?

A

Reate/Rieti

154
Q

In which year was Statius born?

A

40 or 45 AD

155
Q

Give the full name of Ovid.

A

Publius Ovidius Naso

156
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Where was Cornelius Gallus born?

A

Forum Iulii

157
Q

Who wrote Philippics?

A

Cicero

158
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Give the full name of Catullus.

A

Gaius Valerius Catullus

159
Q

Who wrote De Vita Caesarum?

A

Suetonius

160
Q

In which year did Catullus die?

A

54 BC

161
Q

Who wrote Captivi?

A

Plautus

162
Q

Who wrote Satyricon?

A

Petronius

163
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Where was Cato the Elder born?

A

Tusculum

164
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In which year did Horace die?

A

8 BC

165
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In which year did Ennius die?

A

169 BC

166
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Give the full name of Lucan.

A

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

167
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Give the full name of Cato the Elder.

A

Marcus Porcius Cato (The Elder)

168
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Who wrote Epistulae Morales?

A

Seneca the Younger

169
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In which year was Martial born?

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40 AD

170
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In which year did Ovid die?

A

17 AD

171
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In which year did Livy die?

A

17 AD

172
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Give the full name of Horace.

A

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

173
Q

Where was Terence born?

A

Carthage

174
Q

Give the full name of Pliny the Elder.

A

Gaius Plinius Secundus

175
Q

In which year did Valerius Flaccus die?

A

92 or 93 AD

176
Q

Give the full name of Naevius.

A

Gnaeus Naevius

177
Q

Who wrote Noctes Atticae?

A

Aulus Gellius

178
Q

Who wrote Eunuchus?

A

Terence

179
Q

Give the full name of Vergil.

A

Publius Vergilius Maro

180
Q

Where was Livius Andronicus born?

A

Tarentum

181
Q

Who wrote Naturalis Historia?

A

Pliny the Elder

182
Q

Who wrote Bellum Catilinae?

A

Sallust

183
Q

In which year was Vergil born?

A

70 BC

184
Q

In which year did Petronius die?

A

65 AD

185
Q

Give the full name of Terence.

A

Publius Terentius Afer

186
Q

In which year was Catullus born?

A

84 BC

187
Q

In which year was Lucretius born?

A

99 BC

188
Q

Where was Lucilius born?

A

Suessa Aurunca

189
Q

Where was Tacitus born?

A

Narbonese Gaul

190
Q

Where was Pacuvius born?

A

Brundisium

191
Q

In which year did Accius die?

A

86 BC

192
Q

In which year did Naevius die?

A

201 BC

193
Q

Give the full name of Lucilius.

A

Gaius Lucilius

194
Q

Give the full name of Valerius Flaccus.

A

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

195
Q

Give the full name of Juvenal.

A

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

196
Q

Give the full name of Pliny the Younger.

A

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

197
Q

Give the full name of Seneca the Younger.

A

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (The Younger)

198
Q

In which year was Quintillian born?

A

35 AD

199
Q

In which year did Seneca the Younger die?

A

65 AD

200
Q

Give the full name of Quintillian.

A

Marcus Fabius Quintillianus

201
Q

Give the full name of Pacuvius.

A

Marcus Pacuvius

202
Q

Who wrote Bellum Civile?

A

Lucan

203
Q

In which year did Lucan die?

A

65 AD

204
Q

Who wrote Aulularia?

A

Plautus

205
Q

Who wrote Punica?

A

Sillius Italicus

206
Q

When did Apuleius flourish?

A

flourished 155 AD

207
Q

Where was Silius Italicus born?

A

Patavium (Padua)

208
Q

Where was Pliny the Elder born?

A

Comum

209
Q

In which year did Tacitus die?

A

117 AD

210
Q

In which year did Caecilius Statius die?

A

168 or 166 BC

211
Q

Give the full name of Cicero.

A

Marcus Tullius Cicero

212
Q

Who wrote De Natura Deorum?

A

Cicero

213
Q

How many books are in Vergil’s Aeneid?

A

Twelve

214
Q

What work of Horace has the line Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus?

A

Odes (1.37)

215
Q

Who wrote the lines, “Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.”

A

Vergil

216
Q

What poet was banished to Tomi on the Black Sea?

A

Ovid

217
Q

Which figure of speech is illustrated in this sentence? He left in a huff and a yellow cab?

A

Zeugma

218
Q

In Roman comedies, which wily character usually served as the problem-solver who overcame the central obstacle in the plot? the clever

A

Slave

219
Q

Which of the following authors did NOT write history: Tacitus, Livy, Sallust, Statius?

A

Statius

220
Q

In what book of the Aeneid is the following passage: “emissamque hiemem sensit Neptunus et imis stagna refusa vadis, graviter commotus, et alto prospiciens summa placidum caput extulit unda.”

A

Book One

221
Q

What work by what author begins by recounting a letter from Penelope to Odysseus and ends with a letter from Sappho to Phaon?

A

Ovid’s Heroides

222
Q

Which of these men did Cicero make a speech against rather than a speech of defense – Gaius Rabirius, Publius Vatinius, Marcus Caelius, Sextus Roscius?

A

Publius Vatinius

223
Q

What early Latin author who considered himself the reincarnation of Homer was known for his Annales as well as for his statement that he had three hearts – a statement that referred to the three languages which he spoke?

A

Ennius

224
Q

The Roman author Lucan had a grandfather who was also a noted author. Name this man, who started writing at a relatively late age and who supplemented his Controversiae with an oratorical exercise – Suasoriae.

A

Seneca the Elder

225
Q

Which Roman author wrote a poem of 644 lines in which he references mythological tortures and punishments as ideas for what he wishes would happen to his enemy? The author wrote this poem while in exile in Tomi.

A

Ovid

226
Q

What Roman naturalist, author, and naval commander died while attempting to rescue victims of the explosion of Vesuvius at Pompeii?

A

Pliny the Elder

227
Q

What is the total if you add the number of books of Vergil’s three best known works – the Aeneid, the Georgics, and the Eclogues?

A

Twenty-Six

228
Q

Haleutica, Tristia, Ars Amatoria, and Amores were all written by what author?

A

Ovid

229
Q

What work of Latin Literature begins with the line: “Quō usque tandem abutēre, Catilina, patientiā nostrā”?

A

Cicero’s First Catilinarian

230
Q

What Silver Age author wrote 124 philosophical letters addressed to his friend Lucilius?

A

Seneca the Younger

231
Q

Which of Vergil’s three major works did he publish first?

A

Eclogues

232
Q

What work of literature was the first work of prose in Latin?

A

De Agri Culture/De Re Rustica

233
Q

What Roman historian served as consul with Nerva in 97 A.D.?

A

Tacitus

234
Q

Which Plautine comedy is the author’s only play about a mythological subject?

A

Amphitruo / Amphitryon

235
Q

What poet, patroned by Maecenas, wrote 4 books of elegy addressed to a woman named Cynthia?

A

Propertius

236
Q

What work of Tacitus, published in 98 AD was a biographical monograph recounting the life of his father in law?

A

Agricola

237
Q

What massive work of stoic philosophy, dedicated to the emperor Titus, aims to summarize the state of things in its 37 books?

A

Naturalis Historiae

238
Q

What author, whose genius was first recognized by Pollio, wrote a work containing 10 brief poems on pastoral themes that included the stories of Cordyon, Alexis, Tityrus, and the real poet Cornelius Gallus, which is collectively called the Eclogues?

A

Vergil

239
Q

What speech of Cicero, delivered in 70 BC at the request of the Sicilians, prosecuted an administrator on charges of extortion?

A

In Verrem

240
Q

What late Christian author, born in Stridon, wrote a series of biographies modeled off of Suetonious about the lives of famous Christians?

A

Saint Jerome

241
Q

Who was the author of the following works of Latin Literature? Medea, Remedia Amoris, Medicamnia Faciei Femineae, Fasti, Metamorphoses.

A

Ovid

242
Q

In what work does Vergil refuse to sing of ‘reges et proelia,’ chosing instead to model his 10 hexameter poems after Theocritus’ Idylls?

A

Eclogues / Bucolics

243
Q

What work of Tacitus’ may have bean heavily based on documentation of Pliny the Elder and was an ethnographical study published in 98 AD?

A

Germania

244
Q

What neoteric poet traveled to Bithynia with Gaius Memmius and wrote to girl whom he called Lesbia?

A

Catullus

245
Q

Which Augustan age poet wrote the Ars Poetica, a work in which he gives advice on the proper way to write various styles of poetry?

A

Horace

246
Q

Who says “O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem” in the Aeneid?

A

Aeneas

247
Q

What better place to start than with the famous maxim of Apollo from Delphi: Gnothi Seauton, or Know thyself. What author of the Tusculan Disputationss put this maxim into Latin?

A

Cicero

248
Q

O socii - neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum- is a line from which poet’s work?

A

Vergil

249
Q

Which Roman author is chiefly known for the 14 books of witty epigrams he produced in the 1st century AD?

A

Martial

250
Q

It may well be that the English saying virtue is its own reward can trace its origins to this 1st century poet when he said Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi in his poems Ex Ponto.

A

Ovid

251
Q

Name the author and his history which covers the years 14 -68 AD in 18 books?

A

Tacitus’ Annales

252
Q

Nunc est bibendum- is a line from which poet’s work?

A

Horace

253
Q

Although he briefly led the life of a Roman legionary, his flight from the battle of Philippi in 42 was in keeping with Archilochus and other Greek models for his poetry. Can you name this man, a far more successful poet than soldier?

A

Horace

254
Q

“Multas per gentes et multas per aequora vectus advenio has miseras, fater, ad inferias” are the first two lines of an elegiac poem by this poet.

A

Catullus

255
Q

Some lines in Latin poetry are simply gnomic. Case in point: quis fallere possit amantem ? What does this mean?

A

Who could deceive a lover?

256
Q

Caligula was fond of quoting the phrase Oderint, dum metuant. Whom is he quoting?

A

Accius

257
Q

What author opens one of his works with these lines: Qui modo Nasonis fueramus quinque libelli, tres sumus; hoc illi praetulit auctor opus.

A

Ovid

258
Q

Which of the following authors was the earliest to use elegiac? Catullus, Propertius, Gallus, Ovid, Lucilius, Tibullus

A

Lucilius

259
Q

In what work of Horace is the famous Ars Poetica found?

A

Epistles

260
Q

Against whom did Cicero write 14 Philipics in the style of Demosthenes?

A

Marc Antony

261
Q

In what meter did Gnaeus Naevius write his work on the Punic war?

A

Saturnian Meter

262
Q

Identify the speaker of the following lines of book 6 of the Aeneid, which I will read as prose: “Anchisa generate, deum certissima proles, / Cocyti stagna alta vides Stygiamque paludem, / di cuius iurare timent et fallere numen.”

A

Cumean Sibyl

263
Q

Who wrote love poems to a woman he called Lesbia, identified as Clodia Metelli?

A

Catullus

264
Q

What Greek slave is considered to be the founder of Latin Literature?

A

Livius Andronicus

265
Q

For which family did Livius Andronicus become a tutor?

A

Marcus Livius Salinator

266
Q

What job position did Livius Andronicus hold in Rome?

A

grammaticus

267
Q

What Greek work does Livius Andronicus translate into Latin?

A

Homer’s Odyssey (called the Odusia)

268
Q

According to Varro, what did Livius Andronicus produce at the Ludi Romani in 240 BC, and what was it for?

A

the first Latin comedy and tragedy to celebrate the end of the First Punic War

269
Q

Name the 8 titles of Livius Andronicus’ tragedies that survive today.

A
  • Equos Troianus
  • Achilles
  • Aegisthus
  • Ajax Mastigophorus
  • Andromeda
  • Danae
  • Tereus
  • Hermiona
270
Q

What did Livius Andronicus compose in 207 BC?

A

a maid song for Juno (called a partheneion)

271
Q

How does Cicero later regard Livius Andronicus?

A

“antiquated” and of little interest

272
Q

On what famous books did Livius Andronicus consult?

A

Sibylline Books

273
Q

What Fabula Palliata was written by Livius Andronicus?

A

Gladiolus

274
Q

Give the years of Livius Andronicus’ life.

A

284 BC - 204 BC

275
Q

What Roman author was a younger contemporary to Andronicus?

A

Gnaeus Naevius

276
Q

Into what social class was Naevius born?

A

Plebian by birth, no evidence of a aristocratic patron

277
Q

In what war did Naevius participate?

A

First Punic War

278
Q

Which Roman genre did Naevius invent?

A

fabulae praetextae

279
Q

What were fabulae praetextae?

A

tragedies adopted from Roman subjects

280
Q

Name Naevius’ two main fabulae praetextae.

A

Romulus and Clastidium

281
Q

How many titles of fabulae palliatae do we have of Naevius?

A

34 (130 lines are extant)

282
Q

Name Naevius’ four main fabulae palliatae.

A

Colax, Guminasticus, Dolus, and Corollaria/Tarentilla

283
Q

What ranking does Sedigitus give to Naevius?

A

third best comic writer

284
Q

What is Naevius’ magnum opus?

A

Bellum Punicum

285
Q

Against what family does Naevius notoriously fight?

A

Metelli

286
Q

What did Naevius say to the Metelli?

A

“Fato Metelli Romae fiunt consules” (“The Metelli are made consuls of Rome by Fate)

287
Q

How do the Metelli respond to Naevius’ scornful comment?

A

“Dabunt malum Metelli Naevio poetae.” (“The Metelli will give trouble to the poet Naevius.”)

288
Q

After the conflict between Naevius and the Metelli, to where was Naevius exiled?

A

Utica, where he dies

289
Q

Who is said to have written Naevius’ epitaph?

A

himself

290
Q

Who quotes Naevius’ epitaph?

A

Aulus Gellius

291
Q

Which of Naevius’ plays was played at the opening of the Theater of Pompey?

A

Equos Troianus

292
Q

What famous Roman, along with other nobles, criticized Naevius?

A

Scipio Africanus

293
Q

What were fabulae cothurnatae?

A

Greek tragedies in Latin

294
Q

Name three of Naevius’ fabulae cothurnatae.

A

Lycurgus, Hector Proficiscens, and Iphigenia

295
Q

Give the years of Gnaeus Naevius’ life.

A

270 BC - 201/199 BC

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