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2010 Gwinnett County Certamen Championship Upper Level Round: FINAL TU#1: Differentiate in meaning among tondeō and tendō. B1: Distinguish in meaning among triginta, tricēsimus, and triciēs. B2: Give the Latin for twenty, twentieth, and twenty times. TU#2: Give the use of the ablative found in the following sentence: vinum Falernium multō melius quam vinum Gallicum erat. B1: Restate the sentence using an ablative of comparison (read again). B2: Now, using the verb fruor, render the following sentence in Latin, “Marcus enjoyed this wine much better than that wine.” TU#3: Name the son of Priam and Hecuba who, according to Vergil, was slain by Pyrrhus ante ora parentum, B1: By what other name is Pyrrhus known in the Aeneid? B2: If Neoptolemus is Greek for “new soldier,” who is the “old soldier,” otherwise known as Pyrhhus’ father? TU#4: What Roman office, from the Latin meaning “building” or “temple,” was created in 494 BC and soon was charged with protecting the consulta of the senate from alteration and abuse? Later, its officials were in charge of nearly all public games and works. B1: While originally solely plebeian, patricians were included in this office and accordingly were permitted to sit on what symbol of their imperium. B2: Although lacking imperium, what priest of Jupiter was also granted use of the sella curulis. TU#5: Listen to this bit of Latin prose and answer the question which follows. I will read it twice: Haec Scipiōnis oratiō, quod senātus in urbe habēbātur Pompeiusque aberat, ex ipsius ōre Pompeī mittī vidēbātur. Dīxerat aliquis leniōrem sententiam, ut primō Marcus Marcellus, ingressus in eam oratiōnem, nōn oportere ante dē eā rē ad senātum referrī, quam dilectus tota Italia habitī et exercitus conscriptī essent, quō praesidiō tutō et līberē senātus, quae vellet, dēcernere audēret; Here’s the question: On whose behalf did Scipio seem to speak? B1: Who delivers a more moderate opinion? B2: Name the author of this quote. TONDŌ = SHAVE / CUT; TENDŌ = STRETCH / EXTEND / HEAD FOR TRIGINTA = 30 TRICĒSIMUS = 30TH TRICIĒS = 30 TIMES VIGINTI, VICĒSIMUS, VICIĒS DEGREE OF DIFFERENCE VINUM FALERNIUM MULTŌ MELIUS VINŌ GALLICŌ ERAT. MARCUS HŌC VINŌ MULTŌ MELIUS (QUAM) ILLŌ VINŌ FRUCTUS EST. POLITES NEOPTOLEMUS ACHILLES AEDILEship SELLA CURULIS / CURULE CHAIR FLAMEN DIALIS Gnaeus POMPEIUS/POMPEY Magnus Marcus MARCELLUS Gaius Julius CAESAR TU#6: Some emperors are arguably more famous not for their rule, but for the works they penned. Name the emperor and author of The Meditations. B1: Which emperor wrote a copious history of the Etruscans, which is now lost to us? B2: For which emperor is Statius said to have been a court poet? TU#7: Name the young third century Roman Emperor who shared his name with a Syrian sun-god. Part of his name is cognate with the Arabic word for god, Allah. B1: Give the Latin name for the Roman sun-god, meaning “The Unconquered Sun,” with which Elagabalus was assimilated. B2: Now name this foreign cult deity who was occasionally associated with Sol Invictus and was popular with Roman soldiers until the fourth century AD. TU#8: Name the author whose book, while not the most entertaining bit of Latin, is our most extensive record of knowledge on Roman architecture? B1: The same can probably be said of what magister who wrote a twelve volume book on oratory? B2: Give the Latin name for this twelve volume book on oratory. TU#9: Distinguish in meaning between the various forms ducit, ducat, ducet. B1: Give the three equivalent Latin forms for the verb arbitror. B2: Now, using both verbs mentioned above, say in Latin “Let them think that they have been led by a good man.” TU#10: Give the Latin verb common to all of the following English derivatives: resilient, insult, salient, and salacious B1: Give the Latin adjective from which we derive: during, obdurate, duress, and endure. B2: Give the Latin verb from which we derive: aspersion, sparse, disperse, and spark MARCUS AURELIUS CLAUDIUS DOMITIAN ELAGABALUS SOL INVICTUS MITHRAS Marcus VITRUVIUS Pollio Marcus Fabius QUINTILIANus INSTITUTIO ORATORIA DUCIT = HE/SHE/IT LEADS, DUCAT = HE MAY LEAD (or LET HIM LEAD) DUCET = HE WILL LEAD ARBITRĀTUR, ARBITRĒTUR, ARBITRĀBITUR Eī/Illī/Hī ARBITRENTUR SĒ/EŌS Ā VIRŌ BONŌ DUCTĪ ESSE. saliō, SALĪRE DURUS, a, um spargo, SPARGERE TU#11: Time for Cinema Romana: name the current film which Romans would have recognized by the name Latus Caecum. B1: Now, name this movie: Sursum. B2: Finally, name this movie: Regio Novem. THE BLIND SIDE UP DISTRICT NINE TU#12: Which Latin author, writing in the time of Nero, wrote an antiCaesarian version of the civil war sometimes called the Pharsalia? B1: By what other Latin name is the Pharsalia known? B2: Whose death does Lucan gruesomely detail over the course of almost one hundred lines? LUCAN BELLUM CIVILE Gnaeus POMPEIUS/POMPEY Magnus TU#13: The reforms of what man would have prevented the conflict between Rome and its Italian allies? His assassination left no hope and the cities revolted, thus starting the Social War. Name this man whose adopted son would give birth to Augustus’ wife Livia Drusilla. B1: The Italian cities revolted in 91 BC, and formed an independent nation that they called what? B2: One of the outcomes of the Social War was the lex Julia, which did what? TU#14: Name the mythological creature by its component parts: snake, goat, lion. B1: Now, name this one: bird and woman. B2: Now, name this one: lion and eagle. TU#15: Give the Latin abbreviation for the document important to all people seeking employment, because it quite literally tells potential bosses about the “course of a person’s life.” B1: If, in your curriculum vitae, you have graduated with a law degree, you would most likely put this Latin abbreviation meaning “teacher of law.” B2: Perhaps instead you have obtained an M.A. in Latin. Give the Latin phrase which M.A. abbreviates. Marcus Livius DRUSUS ITALIA GAVE CITIZENSHIP TO ITALIAN CITIES/MEN CHIMAERA SIREN GRIFFIN C.V. J.D. MAGISTER ARTIUM TU#16: The senatus consultum ultimum was first used in 121 BC for the consul Lucius Opimius to deal with which famous reforming Tribune of the Plebs, resulting in his death? GAIUS GRACCHUS B1: What famous Roman general was the grandfather of the Gracchi? SCIPIO AFRICANUS B2: According to the brothers’ mythology, how did their mother Cornelia refer to her sons at a gathering of noble women? HER JEWELS TU#17: I’ll name the title of four Latin works; you name the author: Brutus, dē Officiīs, dē Naturā Deōrum, in Catilinam. B1: Here are four more works; you give the author: Sermones, Ars Poetica, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare. B2: And here are four more: Rudens, Bacchides, Aulularia, Mostellaria. Marcus Tullius CICERO Quintus HORATIUS Flaccus / HORACE Titus Maccius PLAUTUS TU#18: We all know that Cato said Carthago delenda est before the Third Punic War, but how would Cato have said, “Carthage had to be destroyed,” after that final Punic War? B1: Using the same construction, how would Cato have said, “I had to destroy Carthage”? B2: How, using the double dative, would the senate have told Cato, “This was a great help to Rome”? CARTHAGO DELENDA ERAT MIHI CARTHAGO DELENDA ERAT HOC MAGNO AUXILIO ROMAE ERAT. TU#19: Give the religious term which the Romans used to mean “the guardian spirit of a place or thing.” The word derives from gens, meaning “household.” B1: Which emperor was the first to cultivate a genius to his divinity? B2: Not to be confused with genius, what Latin term referred to the divine will or power of a deity or spirit. GENIUS Caesar AUGUSTUS NUMEN TU#20: What man was close with Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, but fell victim to Tiberius’ treason trials after Eutyches overheard that he desired Tiberius’ death in favor of Caligula? Name the king whose namesake marshaled the victory at Actium, and whose own name is immortalized for Christians in the Acts of the Apostles. B1: What Jewish writer coined Herod Agrippa as “Agrippa the Great”? B2: Herod Agrippa was educated in the imperial court alongside what only son of Tiberius and Vipsania? HEROD Agrippa JOSEPHUS DRUSUS Julius Caesar