Download Semester 2 “Scisne” list Some of these will appear on the final exam

Semester 2 “Scisne” list
Some of these will appear on the final exam and some will be used as bonus on the exam.
Question: Who were the priests who examined the
entrails of animals for omens?
Answer: haruspex (s) or haruspices (pl)
Question: Who were the priests who watched the flight
of birds for omens?
Answer: augurs
Question: What was the first aqueduct?
Answer: Aqua Claudia built by Appius Claudius
Question: What were the police and firemen called?
Answer: “vigiles” (watchmen)
Question: What was Rome’s population thought to be at its height?
Answer: more than one million
Question: What is Rome’s nickname?
Answer: “Urbs Aeterna” or “the Eternal City”
Question: How did the Romans know what was happening in the news?
Answer: The “newpaper” of the ancient Romans was written on a series of tall
boards attached to pillars in the Forum.
Question: What was the “newspaper” called?
Answer: The Acta Diurna (Daily Happenings); it posted the latest news from war
fronts, the provinces, different sections of Rome, senate proceedings and
government regulations, as well as personal interest news, “for sale” and “for
rent” notices.
Question: Quomodo dicis “before” in Latin?
Answer: “ante”
Question: In what type of building did the average Roman
live?
Answer: Common Romans often lived in cramped quarters in an
apartment (“insula”).
Question: Around what room did most Roman houses
radiate?
Answer: the atrium
Question: What did they call a stand-alone Roman house?
Answer: a domus (although most houses had adjoining
walls)
Question: What fictional character tells us about his overly expensive house?
Answer: Trimalchio
Question: Did most houses have indoor plumbing?
Answer: no, but the wealthy did have lead pipes bringing in
water; lead was poisonous and may have led to illness;
The average person had to go to public fountains and carry back water.
Question: How did the Romans get water for the public fountains?
Answer: aqueducts led water into the city of Roman where water would go to
storage tanks and then public fountains and private homes.
Question: What do we mean by “mea culpa’?
Answer: It’s my fault
Question: What is a “non sequitur”?
Answer: It is something that doesn’t follow logically.
Chp. 6 test
Question: What is an echo?
Answer: a sound returned to the sender, as if from a
disembodied, heart-broken nymph
Question: Quaenam est tempestas hodie?
Answer: Tempestas est frigida! (It’s cold weather.)
*See order of columns: doric, ionic, Corinthian
Question: Est silva prope villam familiae nostrae.
Answer: a. to our family b. of our family c. by our family
d. from our family
Question: The goddess who sent twin serpents to kill
the infant Hercules was a) Minerva b) Venus
c) Juno d) Ceres
Question: What does “Amor omnia vincit” mean?
Answer: Love conquers all.
Question: What does the abbreviation N.B. stand for?
Answer: Nota Bene (Note well)
Question: What did Octavius like to call himself?
Answer: primus inter pares (first among equals)
Question: What is the Midas Touch?
Answer: Being successful at whatever one attempts
Question: What does “Amor caecus est” mean?
Answer: “Love is Blind”
Question: What does QED stand for?
Answer: Quod erat demonstrandum. “That which has to be shown
(as in a proof in geometry)
Question: What is a “quid pro quo”?
Answer: a reciprocal relation (I’ll scratch your back; you, mine)
Question: What does it mean to be shot by Cupid’s arrow?
Answer: to fall madly, passionately in love
Question: How do you say, “What’s new?” in Latin ?
Answer: “Quid novi?”
Question: If your friend said, “Quid novi?” what could you respond?
Answer: “nihil”(nothing) or “multa” (many things)
Question: Where might a Roman audience see a spectacle featuring a
retiarius, a secutor, a bestiaries, and a venatio?
Answer: an amphitheater (gladiators)
Question: Quis sum? Ego de Olympo ad terram descend. Sum nuntius deorum.
Alas in pedibus meis habeo.
Answer: Mercurius
Question: If a friend says that a certain chain of stores is ubiquitous, you know that the
stores in this chain are____.
Answer: everywhere
Question: What does the abbreviation e.g. mean?
Answer: “for example”
Question: What was the Trojan horse made of?
Answer: Wood