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North Gwinnett Certamen Championship
Lower Level
Round: 4
TU#1:Distinguish in meaning between dies and deus.
B1: Distinguish in meaning between pater and patria.
B2: Distinguish in meaning between paro and pareo.
TU#2: What use of the ablative case is found in the sentence: “Urbe
victā, matrēs lacrimābant.”?
B1: What use of the ablative case is found in the sentence “Caesar a
senatoribus quibusdam interfectus est.”?
B2: What use of the dative case is found in the sentence “Discipuli
omnibus laudandi sunt!”?
TU#3: Who was the son of Poeas who had the bow and arrows of
Hercules, so important to the eventual defeat of the Trojans?
B1: What Olympian’s home is said to be Lemnos?
B2: Speaking of smells and Lemnos…Which hero, having arrived in
Lemnos just after Hephaestus convinced Aphrodite to remove the smell
with which she had cursed the Lemnian women, spent a year on the
island as the companion of the Lemnian queen, Hypsipyle?
TU#4: Assisted by Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius, and then saved
by Father Tiber, what hero of the early Roman Republic held off the
army of Lars Porsenna of Clusium until his men could cut down the
Sublician Bridge?
B1: Which early consul of Rome presided over the execution of his own
two sons because they had been involved in a plot to restore Tarquin the
Proud to power?
B2: Which early hero of Rome brought about the defeat of Rome’s rival,
the Etruscan city of Veii, by means of the ritual of evocatio – the
summoning forth from Veii the gods which protected it?
TU#5: Listen to the following passage which I will read twice. Then
answer IN LATIN the question which follows.
Quodam die mensis Augusti, Plinius, forte in horto sedens, legebat et
studebat. Subito Plinius magnos sonos audivit. Nubes mirabilis ex
summo Monte Vesuvio videbatur. Cum Plinius nubem vidisset, ascendit
ad summum collem ex quo nubem mirabilem facilius conspici poterat.
Question: Quid Plinius in horto faciebat?
B1: Quid Plinius in horto sedens audivit?
B2: quo Plinius ivit ut nubem facilius conspiceret?
DIĒS = DAY, DEUS = GOD
PATER = FATHER, PATRIA =
HOMELAND/COUNTRY
PARO = PREPARE, PAREO =
OBEY
ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE
Personal AGENT
AGENT
PHILOCTETES
HEPHAESTUS’/VULCAN’s
JASON
HORATIUS Cocles
Lucius Junius BRUTUS
Marcus Furius CAMILLUS
SEDEBAT/LEGEBAT/
STUDEBAT
Magnos SONOS
AD SUMMUM COLLEM
SCORE CHECK
TU# 6: What two markers were used for counting laps at the Circus
Maximus?
B1: Tell what mythological character each symbolized:
EGGS and DOLPHINS
EGG = CASTOR;
DOLPHIN = NEPTUNE
B2: Domitian added what two colors of factiōnēs to the already existing
four of white, red, green, and blue?
TU# 7: Give the second person singular, imperfect, passive, indicative
form of the verb verberō, verberāre.
B1: Keeping everything else the same, change it to the future.
B2: Give the Latin infinitive of that same verb which would be found in
the following sentence. “I think that a good Roman master will not beat
his slaves.”
TU# 8: Translate the following into English: Rēmus ab fratre saxō
interfectus est.
B1: Give the exact same sentence in Latin but change saxo to say “with
great speed”.
B2: Say in Latin, using a gerundive of obligation: Remus had to be
killed by Romulus.
TU# 9: What two Greek leaders at Troy went on the daring nighttime
raid to capture the horses of Rhesus?
B1: Who was the captured spy who informed the leaders of these
valuable horses and whom Diomedes and Odysseus killed once they
received the info?
B2: Diomedes and Odysseus also traveled to Lemnos to bring back what
warrior who had been left there, due to a stench emanating from this
warrior’s wound?
TU#10: Which Roman, hailed as a hero, is best known for being
appointed dictator, then retiring a mere 16 days later once the crisis with
the Aequians had been resolved?
B1: Not all Romans behaved so nicely. What man, who later named
himself dictator, marched upon Rome in 88 BC?
B2: Not all who marched on Rome were Romans. Name the Gothic
chieftain who marched on and sacked Roman in AD 410.
PURPLE and GOLD
VERBERĀBARIS
VERBERĀBERIS
nōn VERBERATŪRUM ESSE
REMUS WAS KILLED BY
HIS BROTHER WITH A
ROCK or acceptable
Remus ab fratre magnā cum
celeritate interfectus est
Remus Romulō interficiendus
(necandus or other alternatives)
erat.
DIOMEDES and ODYSSEUS
DOLON
PHILOCTETES
CINCINNATUS
SULLA
ALARIC
SCORE CHECK
TU#11: What island was the reason for the first dispute between
Carthage and Rome and eventually led to the First Punic War?
B1: In what year did this clash occur?
B2: On what island were both Artemis and Apollo born?
TU#12: Translate this sentence into English: Magister trēs horās docuit.
B1: What is the case and construction of tres horas in the previous
sentence?
B2: Give the Latin for “one” in the sentence, “Three heads are better than
one.”
TU#13: What is the case of the participle in the motto of Dartmouth
University, Vox clamantis in desertō?
SICILY
264 BC
DELOS
THE TEACHER TAUGHT
FOR THREE HOURS.
ACCUSATIVE of DURATION
OF TIME
UNUM or UNO
GENITIVE
B1: What is the meaning of Dartmouth University’s motto, Vōx
clamantis in desertō?
B2: Change clamantis to the plural.
TU#14: What Theban King was told by an oracle that he would die at the
hands of his son?
B1: What son did he expose to avert this oracle?
B2: Oedipus, however, was saved and he grew to manhood in whose
kingdom?
The VOICE OF ONE CRYING
IN THE WILDERNESS
/DESERT
CLAMANTIUM
LAIUS
OEDIPUS
POLYBUS
SCORE CHECK
TU#15: What was the name of the highly prized “fish sauce” so loved by
the ancient Romans?
B1: Was trigon a highly seasoned dish, a small stool, a ball game, or a
gladiator?
B2: The common Roman game digitīs micāre was most like which
modern game in terms of how it was played: Hangman, Battleship,
kickball or Rock Paper Scissors?
GARUM or LIQUAMEN
BALL GAME
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS