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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