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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