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2010 Gwinnett County Certamen Championship
Novice Level
Final Round
TU#1: This verb, when combined with the preposition ob has the new
definition to meet. What is this intransitive verb which means “I run?”
B1: Which verb does not belong? īre, cedere, sedēre, ambulāre, vagāre
B2: Which word does not belong? milēs, exercitus, pugnāre, rixa, ridēre
CURRO
SEDERE
RIDERE
TU#2: Lesser uses of this case are the Objective and subjective. Often
rendered in English with an apostrophe “s”, this case can show
characteristic, value, part of a whole, and possession. What case in Latin
would be expressed by the endings ae, ī, is, ūs, and eī?
B1: What case in Latin would express an indirect object?
B2: What case in Latin would express an exclamation?
GENITIVE
DATIVE
ACCUSATIVE
TU#3: This man grew up in Troezen, the hometown of his mother Aithra.
Upon coming of age, he took a journey to Athens, meeting and defeating
six criminals along the way, after which he finally met his father Aegeus.
Who was this hero, who killed the Minotaur?
THESEUS
B1: What son did Theseus wrongly curse for allegedly raping his wife
Phaedra?
HIPPOLYTUS
B2: After Theseus abandoned Ariadne on Naxos, what god swooped in to
marry her?
DIONYSUS/BACCHUS
TU#4: This man was educated at Nicomedia in the court of Diocletian,
whose tetrarchy members he would later fight for control of the empire.
Who was this emperor who defeated Maxentius at the battle of Milvian
Bridge and would become the first Christian emperor?
B1: What Greek letters in the sky did Constantine allegedly see the night
before the battle of Milvian Bridge?
B2: What city on the Bosporous did Constantine make his new capital of
the empire?
TU#5: Audīte hanc fabulam dum bis legō. Tum respondē Latinē. Olim
erat adulescēns nomine Pyramus quī vīcīnam puellam nomine Thisbē
amāvit. Parentēs eōrum autem vetuit eōs convenīre. Ergo, Pyramus et
Thisbe nocte domūs relinquunt et ad arborum quandam conveniunt.
Quando domus relinquunt?
B1: Quem ad locum Pyramus et Thisbe conveniunt?
B2: Qui vetiut Pyramum et Thisben convenire?
CONSTANTINE
CHI and RHO
BYZANTIUM or
CONSTANTINOPLE
NOCTE
ARBOREM
PARENTES
SCORE CHECK
TU#6: Augustus took this position in 12 BC after the death of Lepidus.
Following his example most emperors retained this title for life. It was
the first major position for Caesar when he assumed the office in 63BC,
and he used its power to regulate the calendar to reform it. This official
held the title for life, lived at the Domus Publica, and was the chief
official in Roman religion. What is this position whose name literally
means the “greatest bridge maker?”
B1: What women priestesses were under the command of the Pontifex
Maximus?
PONTIFEX MAXIMUS
VESTAL VIRGINS
B2: What woman who betrayed the Capitoline to Titus Tatius and the
Sabines was allegedly a Vestal Virgin?
TARPEIA
TU#7: In the Frogs, Aristophanes describes how this man insulted people
for their obesity, and ancient vases show him unkempt and with a long
steering pole in his right hand. With the left he took your coin token for
passage. Ancient authors dispute whether his domain was the Acheron or
the Styx, but regardless, his role of ferryman remained the same. Who
was this man who ferried souls into the underworld?
B1: What kidnapped daughter of Demeter was queen in the underworld?
B2: What river in the underworld made people forget?
CHARON
PERSEPHONE
LETHE
TU#8: Of the three characteristics of nouns and adjectives, it is the only
one that an appositive must have in common with its antecedent.
Conversely, relative pronouns do not have to share a common one with
their antecedent, instead sharing only number and gender. What is this
quality of a noun which reveals its function in a clause, examples of
which include locative, vocative, accusative and nominative.
B1: Which two cases are the only ones to be objects of prepositions?
B2: Which case does one use when addressing someone directly?
CASE
ACCUSATIVE AND
ABLATIVE
VOCATIVE
TU#9: Expressed by Horace as “for the boys and girls,” give the dative
plural for puer et puella.
B1: Now make puerīs et puellīs genitive plural.
B2: Now make both singular and vocative.
PUERIS ET PUELLIS
PUEORUM ET PUELLARUM
PUER ET PUELLA
TU#10: Using the adjective meaning “big” and the noun meaning “mind
or heart,” what English adjective means “great hearted?”
B1: Which English word meaning “to make amazed” comes from the
Latin words meaning “to be amazed” and “to make?”
B2: What modern institution contains items which the nine daughters of
Zeus and Mnemosyne inspire?
MAGNANIMOUS
STUPEFY
MUSEUM
SCORE CHECK
TU#11: Translate the following sentence into English: Puer in aquā sē
videt et in flumen cadit.
B1: Translate the following sentence into English: Pueri puellīs florēs
dant sed sibi numquam.
B2: Translate the following sentence into English: Puer canem eius non
amat. Modo suum canem amat.
TU#12: In one story, this woman actually ends up in Egypt after a
Hermes makes a likeness of her to take to Troy. In her youth, she was
kidnapped by Theseus, only to be rescued by her brothers Castor and
Pollux. Who was this daughter of Tyndareus who married Menelaus and
was taken to Troy by Paris?
THE BOY SEES HIMSELF IN
THE WATER AND FALLS
INTO THE RIVER.
THE BOYS ALWAYS GIVE
FLOWERS TO THE GIRLS
BUT NEVER TO
THEMSELVES.
THE BOY DOES NOT LIKE
HIS DOG. HE ONLY LIKES
HIS OWN DOG.
HELEN
B1: By what name were the Greek heroes Castor and Pollydeuces
known?
B2: Who was Helen’s mother, impreganted by Zeus as a swan?
TU#13: When this man’s mother Atia remarried after the death of his
father, he was raised by his grandmother who happened to be Julius
Caesar’s sister. He was stationed at Apollonia, when he received word of
Caesar’s assassination, whereupon he immediately came to Rome to
claim his inheritance, now with the new name C. Julius Caesar. Who was
this man, adopted by Caesar who would later take on the name
Augustus?
B1: What man held the position of consul at Caesar’s assassination and
delivered the oration at Caesar’s funeral?
B2: What man held the position of Magister Equi under the dictator
Caesar and later joined Octavian and Antony in the 2nd triumvirate?
DIOSCURI
LEDA
OCTAVIAN (accept Augustus
before the last word)
M. ANTONY
M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS
TU#14: This Greek god caused Athena to turn Medusa ugly because
Medusa had relations with him in Athena’s temple. This god was cheated
by Laomedon in building Troy’s walls, and in some versions of myth, he,
not Aegeus, is Theseus’ father. Also the father of Polyphemus, what god
was husband to Amphitrite, father to Triton, carries a trident and rules the
seas?
POSEIDON
B1: What winged horse emerged from Medusa’s blood from Poseidon’s
impregnation of her?
PEGASUS
B2: What gift had Poseidon offered Athens in his contest with Athena for
the city’s patronage?
A SPRING
TU#15: One would use this three word phrase to describe what olive oil
is for Italian cooking or what studying is for good grades. What is this
phrase that describes an essential element of something which literally
translates “without which not?”
B1: What abbreviation would be found at the end of list and means “and
the others?”
B2: What abbreviation would indicate a medicine be taken twice a day?
SINE QUA NON
ET AL.
B.I.D.
SCORE CHECK
TU#16: They divide Gallia Narbonensis from the Po Valley, they contain
a pass named for the Gallic invader Brennus, and most famously, they
were crossed in 218 BC by a Carthaginian army led by Hannibal. What is
this mountain range, north of Italy that forms a cap upon the peninsula?
B1: What mountain on the bay of Naples exploded in 79 AD?
B2: What other volcano on the island of Sicily is the tallest of Europe?
TU#17: Translate the verb of the following English sentence into Latin.
“Our soldiers have already come to the battlefield before the enemy.”
B1: Translate the following Latin sentence into English: Militēs nostrī
iam ad proelium ante hostēs venērunt.”
B2: Translate the following Latin sentence into English: “Caesar militēs
ad Galliam iam mīserat.
ALPS
VESUVIUS
ETNA
VENERUNT
OUR SOLDIERS HAVE
ALREADY COME TO THE
BATTLE BEFORE THE
ENEMY.
CAESAR HAD ALREADY
SENT THE SOLDIERS TO
GAUL.
TU#18: What form of omnis would modify the noun form corpus?
B1: What form of omnis would modify the noun form corpore?
B2: What form of omnis would modify the noun form corporum?
TU#19: This hero traded places and jobs with the woman Omphale for a
short amount of time. He pursued another woman Iole, only to be
rejected. His first wife died from his fit of madness, and his last wife was
his half sister, the cupbearer Hebe. Who was this son of Zeus and
Alcmene who most famously completed 12 labors for his cousin
Eurytheus?
B1: What creature did Heracles retrieve from the underworld as the last
labor?
B2: Heracles’ wife Deianira, suspecting his love of Iole, gave to him the
shirt soaked with the blood of Nessus, what kind of creature?
OMNE
OMNI
OMNIUM
HERACLES (ACCEPT
HERCULES BEFORE THE
MENTION OF ZEUS)
CERBERUS
CENTAUR
SCORE CHECK
TU#20: After this man’s wife Tatia died, his 2nd wife Egeria was a
nymph who advised him on matters of religious import. He supposedly
appointed the first Pontifex Maximus, brought the Vestal Virgins to
Rome, and constructed the temple of Janus. Who was this king of Rome,
noted for his religious institutions and for succeeding Romulus?
B1: What set of triplets fought for Alba Longa against the Horatii under
the reign of Tullus Hostilius?
B2: What king of Rome had another name Lucomo, which he retained
before coming to Rome from Etruria?
NUMA POMPILIUS
CURIATII
TARQUINIUS PRISCUS