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Round 1:
HISTORY. Which ruler and his namesakes, half-Persian and half-Greek by descent, developed a Black Sea
empire centered on the rich but narrow territory of Pontus?
MITHRIDATES
B1. What foreign ruler refused military aid to Marius in the Cimbric War on the ground that most of his
subjects in Bithynia had been abducted by Roman money-lenders?
King NICOMEDES (II)
B2. What future ruler of Numidia was the son of Micipsa?
JUGURTHA
LANGUAGE. Translate the following sentence into English, Hīs rebus perfectīs, Hercules iussa rēgis accēpit.
WITH THESE THINGS DONE/COMPLETED, HERCULES RECEIVED THE ORDERS OF THE KING.
B1. What construction is Hīs rebus confectīs?
ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE
B2. Translate this sentence, Laborēs Herculis erant auxiliō regī.
HERCULES’ LABORS WERE HELPFUL/A HELP TO THE KING
CULTURE. What did the Romans call the large, heavy covered wagon that was regularly used by family
groups and other travelers with baggage?
RAEDA
B1. What did the Romans call the type of wagon which was used to transport heavy materials such as marble
and stone for buildings?
PLAUSTRUM
B2. What was the four horse chariot used by generals in triumphal processions called?
QUADRIGA
MYTH. What god was said to have been the father of Servius Tullius?
VULCAN (not HEPHAESTUS)
B1. According to their mythology, what event marking them out for greatness happened both to Servius Tullius
and to Aeneas’ son Ascanius when they were babies?
A FLAME WAS SEEN FLICKERING AROUND HIS HEAD
B2. By what other name was Ascanius called in the Aeneid?
IULUS
LITERATURE. Bellum civile is the correct title of whose work, often mislabeled "The Pharsalia"?
LUCAN
B1. Which of Lucan's contemporaries was the author of the Satyricon?
PETRONIUS
B2. What title was Petronius given by Nero?
ELEGANTIAE ARBITER
Round 2:
HISTORY. What Roman general had a seal ring that depicted Bocchus kneeling before him with the captive
Jugurtha?
Lucius Cornelius SULLA
B1. What office did Sulla hold in Marius’ army?
QUAESTOR
B2. In what famous prison in Rome was Jugurtha held before he was executed?
MAMERTINE (accept Tullianum)
LANGUAGE. From what Latin word, meaning “threshold,” do we derive our word for “limit”?
LIMEN
B1. What related word in Latin, meaning “boundary” or “border,” is more closely associated with limit? LIMĒS
B2. What related English verb originally meant “to cast out or expel,” but today has the more general sense of
“to get rid of”?
ELIMINATE
CULTURE. What fancy colored garment was worn over a tunic at, for example, a dinner party? SYNTHESIS
B1. What cloaks were worn by slaves and were regularly issued to soldiers when they lived in cold climates?
PAENULAE (accept the singular)
B2. What garment worn by augurs was striped with scarlet and purple?
TRABEA
MYTH. Who was the Muse of epic poetry?
CALLIOPE
B1. Who was the Muse of lyric poetry?
ERATO
B2. Name the other seven Muses.
URANIA, EUTERPE, THALIA, MELPOMENE, CLIO, TERPSICHORE, POLYMNIA
LITERATURE. Name the author of the following works: Dialogus dē Oratoribus, Annales, Germania,
Agricola.
TACITUS
B1. Now, name the author of these works: Adelphoi, Andria, Eunuchus, Phormio.
TERENCE
B2. Finally, name the Roman architect who wrote Dē Architecturā.
VITRUVIUS
Round 3:
HISTORY. Who was the granddaughter of Julia and Agrippa, and the mother of Nero?
AGRIPPINA
B1. What man led an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Nero is 65 AD?
Gaius Calpurnius PISO
B2. Name the two men who advised Nero in the early years of his reign.
SENECA, BURRUS
LANGUAGE. Based on grammatical classification, what do the following verbs have in common: audēre,
confīdere, fiērī, augēre?
SEMI-DEPONENTS
B1. What defines a semi-deponent verb?
PRESENT TENSES CONJUGATE NORMALLY; PERFECT TENSES ARE DEPONENT
B2. Given the above rule, how does one translate ausī sumus.
WE HAVE DARED/DID DARE/DARED
CULTURE. According to the custom of naming aqueducts in the empire, give the Latin for the aqueduct that
the emperor Claudius finished in 52 AD?
AQUA CLAUDIA
B1. Which aqueduct, named for the maiden who supposedly found the water supply, still brings water to the
Trevi Fountain today?
AQUA VIRGO
B2. Of course, the one supply of water the Romans didn’t want was the marshlands on top of which the Forum
Romanum was built. Name the sewer that Tarquinius Superbus built in order to drain this land.
CLOACA MAXIMA
MYTH. Who was warned by his grandmother Thetis not to return from the Trojan War by sea, so he came back
to Phthia with Helenus and his wife by land?
NEOPTOLEMUS/PYRRHUS
B1. Who was Helenus’ wife?
ANDROMACHE
B2. What Greek hero returned home to Thessaly from the Trojan War, but was driven out by his people and so
settled in southern Italy? Later he was posthumously worshipped as a god.
PHILOCTETES
LITERATURE. What historian, friend of Vergil, and consul of 40 BC built the first public library in Rome?
Gaius Asinius POLLIO
B1. In what building did Augustus establish a library of Greek and Roman literature, based on what he saw in
Alexandria?
TEMPLE OF APOLLO
B2. What later emperor established a Bibliotecha Ulpia?
TRAJAN
Round 4:
HISTORY. Name this tribune of the plebs in 133 BC who was murdered for his efforts at reform? TIBERIUS
GRACCHUS
B1. Who was his mother and famous brother?
CORNELIA, GAIUS
B2. Name one of the two years in which his brother Gaius was tribunus plebis.
123. 122 BC
LANGUAGE. Translate into English the sentence Causā obdormiendī domum vēnērunt.
THEY CAME HOME TO GO TO SLEEP/FOR THE SAKE OF GOING TO SLEEP.
B1. Give the same sentence, but using the word gratiā.
GRATIĀ OBDORMIENDĪ DOMUM VĒNĒRUNT.
B2. In either sentence, what grammatical classification is obdormiendī?
GERUND
CULTURE. On what festive day did Romans visit the gravesites of their family members and honor the dead?
PARENTALIA
B1. What more sinister festival warded of evil spirits, in part by the paterfamilias throwing pepper over his
shoulder in the middle of the night?
LEMURIA
B2. What was the ceremonial “calling out” of the deceased name at the time of death?
CONCLAMATIŌ
MYTH. Give the two terms for the Roman guardian spirits of the home and foodstores?
LARES, PENATES
B1. What three days of each month were sacred to the Lares?
KALENDS, NONES, IDES
B2. In Roman religion, what was the guiding or ruling spirit of a place called? This was often depicted in
lararia as either serpents or a man with a toga over his head.
GENIUS
LITERATURE. To what close friend and confidant are most of Cicero’s letters addressed?
ATTICUS
B1. Of what philosophical work is Cicero’s famous Somnium Scipionis the sixth book?
DĒ RĒ PUBLICĀ
B2. Besides letters and philosophy, Cicero was known for an oration or two. To whom does Cicero address this
question to begin one of his most famous orations: quō usque tandem abutēre?
CATILINA/E
Round 5:
HISTORY. Who would have been Augustus’ heir to the throne had he not died in 23 BC?
MARCELLUS
B1. Where were Marcellus’ ashes placed?
MAUSOLEUM OF AUGUSTUS
B2. What two grandsons did Augustus then claim as heirs until their deaths in 2 and 4 AD? GAIUS, LUCIUS
LANGUAGE. Translate this sentence into English, Velim agere melius.
I WOULD LIKE TO DO BETTER.
B1. What subjunctive use is found in that sentence?
OPTATIVE
B2. What subjunctive use is found in this sentence: Velimne agere melius?
DELIBERATIVE
CULTURE. What general term did the Romans use for a clock?
B1. What was the pointer of a solarium, or sundial, called?
B2. Where in Rome was the Horologium Augustī located?
HOROLOGIUM
GNOMON
CAMPUS MARTIUS
MYTH. For seven years, Odysseus stayed with what daughter of Atlas on her island?
B1. On what island did Calypso live?
B2. Who compelled Calypso finally to help Odysseus build a ship and sail back to his wife?
CALYPSO
OGYGIA
ZEUS/HERMES
LITERATURE. What famous writer of epigrams was known to have called the current emperor dominus et
deus?
MARTIAL
B1. What emperor does he call dominus et deus?
DOMITIAN
B2. What contemporary writer of Satire does Martial mention in his epigrams?
JUVENAL