Roman Marriage

Question 1

What was the betrothal called?

Answer 1

Sponsalia

Question 2

What was the betrothed man called

Answer 2

Sponsus

Question 3

What was the betrothed women called

Answer 3

Sponsa

Question 4

What was the ring that was worn on the ring finger of the left hand known as a wedding ring?

Answer 4

Anulus

Question 5

What was it called when a man could not recover his betrothal presents if he broke the betrothal?

Answer 5

Infamia

Question 6

The term for women used to mean “to marry”?

Answer 6

Nubere

Question 7

What term was used for men meaning “to marry”?

Answer 7

In matrimonium ducere

Question 8

What was the term for the marriage hymn?

Answer 8

Hymenaeus

Question 9

What was the term for the matron’s dress, that was worn outside of the house?

Answer 9

Stola matronalis

Question 10

What was the term for the matron’s dress, that was worn outside of the house

Question 11

What was the term for “Mother’s Day”?

Answer 11

Matronalia

Question 12

When did Matronalia take place?

Answer 12

March 1st

Question 13

Under what Emporer did divorce first occur?

Answer 13

Augustus

Question 14

What was the term for plebeian marriage?

Answer 14

Usus

Question 15

Under what two things was usus not recognized as a marriage?

Answer 15

The Law and hallowed by the gods

Question 16

What marriage not involve manus?

Answer 16

Usus

Question 17

Under whose power did the wife remain in an Usus marriage?

Answer 17

Her father’s

Question 18

Under what circumstance was a wife allowed property?

Answer 18

If she stayed away from her husband for the duration of a trinoctium

Question 19

What is a trinoctium?

Answer 19

Three nights

Question 20

Which emperor made it so plebeians were considered citizens, thus allowing them to be legally married?

Answer 20

Servius

Question 21

What was the fictitious sale of the bride?

Answer 21

Coemptio

Question 22

What was the term for the sale-holder who laid a single coin on a scale?

Answer 22

Libripens

Question 23

What was the term for Dowry?

Answer 23

Dos, dotis, F.

Question 24

Which marriage had to have 5 witnesses?

Answer 24

Coemptio

Question 25

In what year were patricians and plebeians allowed to intermarry?

Answer 25

445 BC

Question 26

What is the term for the tunic that was woven on an upright loom, otherwise known as the bridal tunic?

Answer 26

Tunica recta or regilla

Question 27

What was the saffron veil worn by the bride?

Answer 27

Flammeum

Question 28

Who dressed the bride?

Answer 28

The brides Mother

Question 29

What was the knot on the bride's dress only to be untied by the husband?

Answer 29

Nodus Herculaneus

Question 30

How was the bride's hair arranged?

Answer 30

It was divided into 6 locks by a spear head

Question 31

What was the name of the spear used to part a bride's hair?

Answer 31

Hasta caelibaris

Question 32

What were the ribbons used to tie the bride's hair?

Answer 32

Vittae

Question 33

Who gathered the flowers and plants to make the bride's wreath?

Answer 33

The bride

Question 34

What did the groom wear?

Answer 34

A toga and a wreath of flowers on his head

Question 35

Which of the weddings was the most elaborate and religious?

Answer 35

Confarreatio

Question 36

Who brought the bride and groom together?

Answer 36

The Pronuba

Question 37

Who was the Pronuba?

Answer 37

The matron of honor, also a woman who was married to her first husband

Question 38

What was it called when the Pronuba join the bride and groom's right hands?

Answer 38

Dextrarum iunctio

Question 39

How many people needed to be present for the dextrarum iunctio?

Answer 39

10 witnesses

Question 40

Give the Latin and English meaning for what the bride was asked after the dextrarum iunctio

Answer 40

Latin: An sibi mater familias esse vellet English: If she wished to be the mater familias to him (the groom)

Question 41

What was the covered basket with utensils?

Answer 41

Cumera

Question 42

Who was the cumera carried by?

Answer 42

Camillus

Question 43

To what god was the bloodless offering offered by the Pontifex Maximus and the Flamen dialis?

Answer 43

Jupiter

Question 44

Give the Latin and English meaning for the bloodless offering used at aConfarreatio?

Answer 44

Latin: Farreum libum English: Spelt cake

Question 45

A prayer was recited by the flamen dialis to what god?

Answer 45

Juno

Question 46

Where was the confarreatio done?

Answer 46

In the Atrium for the pater familias of the bride

Question 47

During the feast what does the groom do as a joke?

Answer 47

He takes the bride away by force

Question 48

What was the public procession of taking the bride to the house of the husband?

Answer 48

Deductio

Question 49

What was the word shouted during the deductio to say congratulations or good luck?

Answer 49

Feliciter

Question 50

When are guests to begin arriving?

Answer 50

Before sunrise

Question 51

How many and for what reasons did the bride drop coins?

Answer 51

She dropped 3 coins. One as an offering to the lares compitales. One for the groom as a emblem of the dowry. one to the lares of the groom's house.

Question 52

What did the groom scatter through the crowd as a sign of fruitfulness?

Answer 52

Nuts

Question 53

What would the wife say to the husband?

Answer 53

Latin: Ubi to Gaius ego Gaia English: When you are Gaius, and am Gaia

Question 54

What would the bride carry during the deductio?

Answer 54

A torch

Question 55

What was thrown into the crowd as a lucky possession?

Answer 55

The unlit torch

Question 56

What was the wedding feast?

Answer 56

Cena nuptialis

Question 57

What was used to conclude the feast, also known as the wedding cake?

Answer 57

Mustaceum

Question 58

What was the second feast of the day, where the wife gave her first offering as a matrona?

Answer 58

Repotia

Question 59

What were the requirements for nuptiae iustae (for it to be legal)

Answer 59

The Pater familias had to give consent. Both parties had to be of age. (Male: 14 / Female: 12). Both had to be unmarried. They could not be closely related.

Question 60

When was the Kalends of every month?

Answer 60

The first day of the month

Question 61

When was the Nones of ever month?

Answer 61

The 7th day of March, May, July, and October, or the 5th of every other month

Question 62

When were the Ides of every month?

Answer 62

The 15th in March, May, July, and October, or the 13th of the rest.

Question 63

What was not done during all of May and the first half of June because it was considered "unlucky"?

Answer 63

Marriage

Question 64

What was February 13-21?

Answer 64

Dies parentales

Question 65

What days was the entrance to the underworld opened?

Answer 65

August 24, October 5, and November 8