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OJCL State Convention Certamen - Finals 2011
LEVEL 1
1. (lang 1) Change the verb in this Latin sentence to the perfect tense: Caesar longās
litterās Iuliae parat.
ANS: PARĀVIT
BONUS: Now change the verb in this Latin sentence to the imperfect: Magister
discipulōs per magnam silvam dūcit .
ANS: DŪCĒBAT
2. (myth1) Who was the wife of Hector?
ANS: ANDROMACHE
BONUS: Who was his son?
ANS: ASTYANAX/SCAMANDRIUS
3. (hicu 1) To which of the following did the ancient Romans NOT have access? sugar,
milk, honey, olive oil, salt.
ANS: SUGAR
BONUS : Give the Latin term for the meal which occur somewhere around the
‘hōra prīma’ of the Roman day.
ANS: IENTĀCULUM
4. (lang 2) In the sentence, “He lived in the big city of Rome”, say “in the big city”
ANS: IN MAGNĀ URBE
BONUS: In the sentence, “He walked into the big buildings”, say “into the big
buildings.”
ANS: IN MAGNA AEDIFICIA
5. (lang 3) What English word derived from the Latin word for “bedroom” refers to any
small enclosure, especially one in which people do office work?
ANS: CUBICLE
BONUS: What word derived from the Latin verb “to send” means a planned break,
especially one in the middle of a theatrical or musical performance?
ANS: INTERMISSION
6. (hicu 2) Which king of Rome was selected for his wisdom, was supposedly advised by a
nymph, and gave Rome its religious foundations?
ANS: NUMA POMPILIUS
BONUS: Which king of Rome was the grandson of Numa Pompilius?
ANS: ANCUS MARCIUS
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7. (lang 4) Translate the verb form poteram.
ANS: I WAS ABLE
BONUS: Translate the verb form posuērunt.
ANS: THEY HAVE PLACED/PUT
8. (lang 5) Translate this sentence into English: Novus magister circum urbem
ambulābat.
ANS: THE NEW TEACHER (WAS WALKING/USED TO
WALK/KEPT ON WALKING) WALKED AROUND THE
CITY.
BONUS: Now translate this one: Soror Iuliae erat mox irāta et misera sine amīcā
ANS: THE SISTER OF JULIA WAS SOON ANGRY AND
SAD WITHOUT HER FRIEND
9. (myth 2) Who was the ruler of the Titans?
ANS: CRONUS/SATURN
BONUS: Who were his parents?
ANS: URANUS AND GAIA
10. (hicu 3) Which emperor created a new capital for the Roman Empire at the mouth of
the Black Sea?
ANS: CONSTANTINE
BONUS: What Roman orator discovered that Catiline was plotting against the
Roman state, saved the Republic, and later was killed at the behest of Marc Antony?
ANS: CICERO
11. (lang 6) What Latin phrase, which has nothing to do with a sauna despite how it may
sound in English, means “a sound mind in a sound body.”:
ANS: mēns sāna in corpore sānō
BONUS: What Latin phrase would be best kept in mind when purchasing a used
vacuum cleaner off of Craig’s List?
ANS: CAVEAT EMPTOR
12. (myth 3) Who were the parents of Proserpina?
ANS: JUPITER AND CERES
BONUS: Who were the parents of Dionysus?
ANS: ZEUS AND SEMELE
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13. (myth 4) Who gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy?
ANS: APOLLO
BONUS: Who received Cassandra as his prize after the war?
ANS: AGAMEMNON
14. (lang 7) Differentiate in meaning between the nouns cēna and caelum.
ANS: CĒNA - DINNER, CAELUM - SKY
BONUS: Now differentiate in meaning among these three verbs: faciō, capiō, and
rapiō.
ANS: FACIŌ - DO/MAKE, CAPIŌ - TAKE, SEIZE, RAPIŌ SNATCH, STEAL, GRAB
15. (hicu 4) There are many different ways to symbolize Roman power. Give the 4 letter
abbreviation which signifies this power and is found on many inscrptions?
ANS: S.P.Q.R.
BONUS: Give the full Latin and English for S.P.Q.R.
ANS: SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS, THE
SENATE AND THE PEOPLE OF ROME/ROMAN
PEOPLE
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LEVEL II
1. (lang 1) Say in Latin, “The gladiator will fight with a sword”.
ANS: GLADIATOR GLADIŌ PUGNĀBIT
BONUS: Say in Latin, “The gladiators have been killed by swords”
ANS: GLADIĀTŌRĒS GLADIĪS INTERFECTĪ
SUNT/NĒCĀTĪ SUNT
2. (myth 1) To what location did the Sibyl accompany Aeneas so that he might visit his
father?
ANS: THE UNDERWORLD
BONUS: Aeneas met the Sibyl at what Italian town, sacred to Apollo?
ANS: CUMAE
3. (hicu 1) Which of the following Roman emperors did NOT die of natural causes: Augustus,
Titus, Diocletian, Domitian?
ANS: DOMITIAN
BONUS: After Domitian’s death, the Senate voted to officially comdemn his memory,
thus striking his likeness and name from all public monuments. What is the Latin phrase
for this practice?
ANS: DAMNATIO MEMORIAE
4. (lang 2) What is the meaning of the Latin idiom proelium committere?
ANS: TO BEGIN / JOIN BATTLE
BONUS: What is the meaning of the Latin idiom nāvem solvere?
ANS: TO SET SAIL
5. (lang 3) Translate: Marcus dīxit tē domum īvisse.
ANS: MARCUS SAID THAT YOU HAD GONE HOME
Translate: Pater quam tacitissimē discessit.
ANS: FATHER LEFT AS QUIETLY AS POSSIBLE
6. (hicu 2) What Roman emperor presided over the re-construction of the Pantheon?
ANS: HADRIAN
BONUS: Where in Italy did Hadrian construct an elaborate villa?
ANS: TIVOLI / TIBUR
7. (lang 4) What is the meaning of the Latin adverb numquam?
ANS: NEVER
BONUS: What is the meaning of the Latin adverb nusquam?
ANS: NOWHERE
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8. (lang 5) Differentiate in meaning between mōs and mora.
ANS: MŌS, CUSTOM/HABIT AND MORA, DELAY
BONUS: Differentiate in meaning between cōgō and cognōscō.
ANS: CŌGŌ, FORCE / COLLECT / COMPEL AND COGNŌSCŌ,
LEARN / KNOW
9. (myth 2) What man did the Argonauts overwhelmingly select to lead their expedition?
ANS: HERACLES/HERCULES
BONUS: Why did Heracles not accompany the Argo to Colchis?
ANS: HE WAS LEFT BEHIND WHILE SEARCHING FOR HYLAS
(MUST MENTION ‘HYLAS’ BY NAME)
10. (hicu 3) What fruit did the Romans know as malum Persicum?
ANS: PEACH
BONUS: What fruit did the Romans know as malum Punicum?
ANS: POMEGRANATE
11. (lang 6) Give the comparative and superlative degrees of parvus.
ANS: MINOR & MINIMUS
BONUS: Give the comparative and superlative degrees of saepe.
ANS: SAEPIUS & SAEPISSIMĒ
12. (myth 3) What girl’s beauty became so renowned that people everywhere stopped worshiping
at the shrines of Venus?
ANS: PSYCHE
BONUS: In her vengeance, what did Venus demand that Psyche retreive from the
underworld?
ANS: A BOX OF PROSERPINA’S BEAUTY (NOT PERSEPHONE)
13. (myth 4) What hero lost his sandal while carrying a goddess across a river?
ANS: JASON
BONUS: Jason was travelling to Iolcus in order to dispute the rule of his uncle. Who was
Jason’s uncle?
ANS: PELIAS
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14. (lang 7) We are staying in Rome for three months. Say in Latin, for three months.
ANS: TRĒS MENSĒS
BONUS: We are departing for Athens at the ninth hour. Say in Latin, at the ninth
hour.
ANS: NŌNĀ HŌRĀ
15. (hicu 4) In what year did Julius Caesar serve as Consul for the first time?
ANS: 59 B.C.
BONUS: To what office was Caesar elected in 63 B.C.?
ANS: PONTIFEX MAXIMUS
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UPPER LEVEL
1. (lang 1) Express the following in Latin using a supine: We came so that we might see
the victor.
ANS: VĒNIMUS VICTŌREM VĪSUM
BONUS: Translate into English: hoc nefās est factū.
ANS: THIS IS WRONG TO DO
2. (myth 1) What youngest daughter of Priam and Hecuba was sacrificed on the grave of
Achilles after the fall of Troy?
ANS: POLYXENA
BONUS: Who, clearly practiced in killing people on altars after his murder of
Priam, performed this rite?
ANS: NEOPTOLEMUS / PYRRHUS
3. (hicu 1) What was the name for the day when a Roman child was named?
ANS: DIĒS LUSTRICUS
BONUS: On what day did a father typically name his son?
ANS: NINTH DAY AFTER BIRTH
4. (lang 2) Translate into Latin: I wonder whether it is snowing.
ANS: MĪROR NUM NINGAT / NINGATNE / AN NINGAT
BONUS: Now translate: It is hailing, isn’t it?
ANS: NŌNNE GRANDINAT?
5. (lit 1) What former officer in Caesar’s engineering corps dedicated his treatise on
architecture to Augustus?
ANS: VITRUVIUS (POLLIO)
BONUS: What other technical writer wrote a vast encyclopedic handbook of which
only the section on medicine is extant?
ANS: (AULUS CORNELIUS) CELSUS
6. (hicu 2) For what reason would a Roman matron use a flabellum?
ANS: TO FAN HERSELF
BONUS: If a Roman called for a calamus, what does he want to do?
ANS: TO WRITE
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7. (lang 3) Excluding alliteration, what poetic device can be seen in the following lines
from the Aeneid, which I shall read as prose: at rēgīna gravī iamdūdum saucia cūrā /
vulnus alit vēnīs et caecō carpitur ignī?
ANS: SYNCHYSIS, METONYMY, METAPHOR
BONUS: Name another.
ANS: SEE ABOVE
8. (lang 4) Which of the following, if any, is not derived from the same Latin word as the
others: necessary, succeed, ancestor, cease, occasion?
ANS: OCCASION
BONUS: “Occasion” comes from cadō - fall, but from what Latin verb, with what
meaning, do necessary, succeed, ancestor, and cease all come?
ANS: CĒDŌ (CĒDERE) - YIELD, SUBMIT, MOVE
9. (myth 2) What Greek divinity was called Tritogenia?
ANS: ATHENA
BONUS: What Greek divinity was called Ennosigaeus?
ANS: POSEIDON
10. (lit 2) Identify the author of the following lines, which I shall read as prose: Quī fit,
Maecēnās, ut nēmō, quam sibi sortem seu rātiō dederit seu fors obiēcerit, illā
contentus vīvat, laudet dīversa sequentīs?
ANS: HORACE / (QUINTUS) HORATIUS (FLACCUS)
BONUS: Give the Latin title of the work of Horace that those lines begin.
ANS: SERMŌNĒS
11. (lang 5) What two Latin words contract to form the word sīs, which means “if you
wish”?
ANS: SĪ VĪS
BONUS: What two Latin words contract to form the word sōdēs, which means “if
you dare”?
ANS: SĪ AUDĒS
12. (myth 3) Whom did Penelope marry after the death of Odysseus?
ANS: TELEGONUS
BONUS: Whom did Telemachus marry?
ANS: CIRCE
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13. (hicu 3) It was not until 445 BC and the lēx Canuleia that the iūs cōnūbiī was
extended to those in what particular circumstance?
ANS: TWO ORDERS / PATRICIAN AND PLEBEIAN
(WISHING TO MARRY)
BONUS: Give the Latin term for the type of marriage was used as a compromise
when one of the parties was plebeian.
ANS: COĒMPTIŌ
14. (lang 6) Distinguish in meaning between the adjective vēnālis and the verb vēnor.
ANS: VĒNĀLIS = FOR SALE, VĒNOR=TO HUNT
BONUS: What is the meaning of the noun venia?
ANS: PARDON, INDULGENCE, GRACE, FAVOR
15. (lit 3) What young poet praised the emperor at the Neronia festival of AD 60, although
he was forced to kill himself five years later under the direction of that same emperor?
ANS: LUCAN
BONUS: What other author was forced to commit suicide for the same reason after
the Pisonian conspiracy?
ANS: (LUCIUS ANNAEUS) SENECA THE YOUNGER must be more specific if just Seneca
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