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The profession of who’s father was helpful in their descriptions of bees?

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Vergil.

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses consisted of how many books?

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15 books

Ovid’s Metamorphoses was the longest book collection of its time.

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Which Roman writer combined in his work the philosophy of Epicurus and the atomic theory of Leucippus and Democritus?

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Lucretius

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The work of Plautus most closely resemble modern ________.

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Musical Comedies.

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Which Greek work did Livius Andronicus translate into Latin?

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Odysseus

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Who was the first professor of rhetoric at Rome?

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Quintilian

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Who is the famous schoolmaster of Horace?

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Orbilius, a grammarian from Beneventum

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Which author left us sixteen satires in hexameter verse (the bastard)?

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Juvenal

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Who is the leading character in Miles Gloriosus?

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Pyrogopolynices

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Which Poet was born in the village of Andes?

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Vergil.

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Who wrote over a hundred letters to his friend Lucilius, in form correspondence but in effect moral essays on happiness, wealth, death, and the like?

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Seneca

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The story of Caesar’s encounter with pirates can be found in the writings of which Roman?

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Suetonius

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Pliny the Younger has left us one extant oration. Whom does he praise in it?

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Trajan

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Who wrote a poem about his own conculship?

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Cicero

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Catullus dedicated a book of poems to who?

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Cornelius Nepos

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According to Suetonius, how many conspirators were involved in the assassination of Caesar?

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60

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The subject of Plautus’ Mostellaria:

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A spend-thrift son

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How many tragedies by Seneca are extant?

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9

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“Eclecticism” best describes the philosophy of whom?

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Cicero

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Which Stoic author had considerable influence on Christian ethics?

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Seneca the Younger

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Cicero wrote the Consolatio to help assuage his grief over the death of whom?

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Tullia

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What famous case established Cicero’s reputation as a lawyer?

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Pro Roscio Amerino

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______ called _______ “the supreme guide of wayward youth.”

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Martial; Quintilian

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The foundation of Rome was told in all of the following EXCEPT:
Cato the Elder, Livy, Fabius Pictor, Tacitus.

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Tacitus.

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Which writer wrote secret satires about Nero?

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Lucan

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In the work _______, _______ describes his trip to _______ with vergil.

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Sermones; Horace; Brundisium

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What twelve book epic by ______ details the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices?

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Statius; Thebaid

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According to Quintilian, what genre is entirely Rome?

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Satire

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Born in Comum, _______ was raises by his maternal uncle.

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Pliny the Younger

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Which of Cicero’s surviving speeches was given last?

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Fourteenth Philippic

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Who lost imperial favor because he was supposedly too sympathetic to the Empress Sabina?

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Suetonius

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It is said that Shakespeare based his Comedy of Errors on ______.

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Menaechmi

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Both _________ and _________ went to Rhodes to study with the Stoic philosopher ___________.

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Pompey; Cicero; Posidonius

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Rome’s initial reaction to Greek philosophy

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Led to the temporary expulsion of Greek philosophers.

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How did Tacitus portray Tiberius?

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Vicious and cunning.

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According to Cicero, friendship must be founded on, and preserved by:

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Virtue

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In the first six odes of Book III, Horace writes about what?

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Rome

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Who wrote his own Epitaph which included the words, “I fly, still living, through the mouths of men”?

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Ennius

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Who was known as “doctus”?

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Pacuvius

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The phrase often quoted by Caligula, “Oderint dum metuant” was contained in whose work?

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Accius

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Which work of Cicero was modeled largely on _______’s “Myth of Er”?

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Cicero; Somnium Scipionis

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Who was much admired by later rhetoricians and admired by Cicero and Vergil?

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Accius

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Which author is said to have translated 108 comedies of Menander into Latin?

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Terence

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Lucius Varius Rufus helped to translate what after Vergil’s death?

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Aeneid

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Who wrote the tragedy Thyestes which was performed at the games celebrating Octavian’s victory at Actium?

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Lucius Varius Rufus

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What work on rhetoric did _________ write to replace his earlier work De inventione on the same subject?

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Cicero; De Oratore.

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In which book of the De Bello Gallico is the revolt of the Gauls begun by the Carnutes described?

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VII

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Who did Cicero describe as the most elegant of the Romans?

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Caesar

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Where was Sextus Propertius born?

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Assisi

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Which author writes about the “neighborhorliness” of apartment dwellers?

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Martial

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All of the following statements about Apuleius are true EXCEPT
I. He was born in Africa.
II. He was greatly interested in magic.
III. The Florida contains his defence against in-laws who take him to court.
IV. Metamorphoses is written in the Asianic style of oratory.

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III.

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The term “Vitruvian man” refers to

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a theory on human proportians.

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Who was the Nephew of Ennius?

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Pacuvius

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Plautus was a contemporary in whose work?

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Accius

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Who’s popularity was attested by Cicero in the De amicitia?

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Pacuvius

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In what year was poet Vergil born?

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70 BC

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Which of Caesar’s works was completed by his aide, Aulus Hirtius?

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Comentarii de Bello Gallico

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Who is considered the father of Latin Literature?

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Livius Andronicus

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Which three languages gave Quintus Ennius his “three hearts”?

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Umbrian, Greek, and Latin

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Which poet dedicated his work to the historian and biographer Cornelius Nepos.

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Catullus

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How many books comprise the Aeneid?

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12

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Where was the playwright Terence born?

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Carthage

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What is the main purpose of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura?

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To explain nature through Physics.

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In which book of the Aeneid will you found the God Aeolus?

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1

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Who was the poet Tibullus’ Mistress?

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Delia

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Who is the Latin author of the Cena Trimalchionis?

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Petronius

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In which of Horace’s works can you find the accounts of “The Bore” and “Journey to Brundisium”?

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Sermones

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The story of Cupid and Psyche is contained in which of Apuleius’ works?

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Metamorphoses

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On which of Plautus’ plays did Shakespeare base his Comedy of Errors?

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Menaechmi

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What author, who wrote in Greek hexameter, was called the father of Latin poetry?

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Ennius

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Which meter is often called “limping” because of the position of a long syllable?

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Choliambic

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Who wrote Andria, Adelphi, and Phormio?

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Terence

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During which stretch of years did Vergil compose the Aeneid?

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29-19 BC

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In which city did Vergil die?

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Brundisium

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In which speech did Cicero attack Sulla’s freedman Chrysogonus?

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Pro Roscio

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Lucan, Seneca the Younger, and Petronius met what similar fate?

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Death as a result of Emperor Nero’s displeasure.

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Which author is the closest Roman equivalent to Aesop?

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Phaedrud

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Which author wrote, “There is nothing so ridiculous that some philosopher won’t say it”?

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Cicero

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Lucius Afranius was a popular writer of which type of play?

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Fabulae togatae

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Which of the following authors wrote the oldest extant prose work in Latin, the De re rustica?

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Cato the Elder

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Catullus’ line “Ille mi par esse deo videtur” is based on an earlier poem by whom?

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Sappho

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The work known as “Laelius” is better known by what name?

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De Amicitia

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Horace wrote that his childhood paedagogus was also which of his relatives?

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Father

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Which of the following writers did not writers did NOT write a work on agricultural themes?
Vergil, Cato the Elder, Columella, Seneca.

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Seneca

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What gift from Maecenas to Horace was immortalized in one of Horace’s poems?

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A farm

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The so-called “Scipionic Circle” included Laelius, Lucilius, and whom?

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Terence

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The Odissia of Livius Andronicus translated Homer’s work into Latin using which early meter?

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Saturnian

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What were Cicero’s four famous orations against his greatest opponent for conculship?

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Against Catiline (In Catilinam)

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Which Roman author was banished by the Metelli family to Utica?

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Gnaeus Naevius

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Which of Plautus’ works has a double plot?

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Bacchidus

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To which of his contemporaries did Varro dedicate his De Lingua Latina?

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Cicero

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Catullus’ work known as “Attis” concerns the cult of what deity?

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Cybele

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Which book of Vergil’s Georgics deals with beekeeping?

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Fourth

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Which author was known or his history of Alexander the Great?

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Q. Curtius

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S. Julius Frontinus is remembered only for his works on what topic?

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Aqueducts

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The emperor Marcus Aurelius was tutored by which of these sholars?

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Cornelius Fronto

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The work Civitas Dei was a work written by what later Latin author?

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Augustine

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In what year do the first two books of Caesar’s Bellum Civile take place?

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49 BC

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Which of these can be found in book four of Caesar’s Gallic Wars?

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Caesar’s crossing of the Rhine.

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Which two of the Catilinarian orations were delivered before the Senate, and not the general public?

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1 and 4

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Which of these men was NOT successfully defended by Cicero:

Archias, Balbus, Plancius, Grabinius?

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Grabinius

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In book 3 of the Aeneid, which kinsman of Aeneas speaks to him from the grave?

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Polydorus

102
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What was the subject of the works known as “fabulae praetextae”?

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Roman history

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In which type of dramatic performance could you see the characters Maccus, Dossennus, Mandacus, and Pappus?

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Atellan farce

104
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Which poet wrote an epicedium for Cornelia, the wife of Octavian?

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Propertius

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By which Roman emperor was Quintilian appointed a professor of rhetoric?

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Vespasian

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