2010 Gwinnett County Certamen Championship
Upper Level
Round: 3
TU#1: Complete this analogy: crus is to pes as bracchium is to __?
B1: Respondē Latinē: Quot digiti sunt in omnibus pedibus et manibus?
B2: Respondē Latinē: Quot sunt numerus oculōrum in grege vestrā?
TU#2: Translate into Latin the participle used in the following sentence:
“Marcus saw Gaius following his brother to the forum.”
B1: Like all deponents, sequi has three forms that are active in
appearance as well as meaning. One is the above form, now name one of
the two other active forms of sequi.
B2: Some Latin verbs like audeō, audēre are semi-deponents. Which of
the following forms of audēre is passive both in form and in meaning:
audēbātur, audēre, or ausus est?
TU#3: Give the name common to all of the following mythological
characters: the wife of Nestor in Homer’s Iliad, wife of Creon in
Sophocles’ Antigone, and in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, she was a nymphdaughter of Apollo and wife of Orpheus.
B1: In Homer’s Odyssey, Eurydice’s husband Nestor was visited by
whom to inquire about the fate of this man’s father?
B2: In Sophocles, Eurydice kills herself after discovering that Antigone
and this man have already committed suicide. Name Eurydice’s son,
whose Greek name translates to “bloody,” and whose death caused Creon
to go mad.
TU#4: Complete the following literary association: Lesbia is to Catullus
as Cynthia is to ____.
B1: Now complete this association: Vergil is to Calliope as Plautus is to
_____.
B2: And one last association: Livy is to history as Plutarch is to _____.
TU#5: Derived from a Latin verb and noun, both meaning “attack,” give
the English adjective that has come to mean “acting hastily or rashly.”
B1: For five points, give both the Latin verb and the related noun from
which impetuous derives.
B2: While the prefix “in-” can communicate the sense “on” or “at,” it can
also mean “not,” as in the word “impersonal.” However, what does “in-”
communicate in a word such as “inflammable?”
TU#6: Translate the following Latin tongue-twister into English: Virī
virēs in bellō bellō ostendunt.
B1: Translate this sentence: Mala mala malō.
B2: Translate this sentence: Latro latus latum laurī latrat.
MANUS
VIGINTI
OCTO, SEX, QUATTUOR, or
DUO (depending on number of
teammates)
perSEQUENTEM
SECUTURUS, a, um or
SECUTURUS, a, um ESSE
AUDĒBĀTUR
EURYDICE
TELEMACHUS
HAEMON
Sextus PROPERTIUS
THALIA
BIOGRAPHY
IMPETUOUS
imPETERE and IMPETUS
ESPECIALLY / MORESO /
GREATER EXTENT
THE MEN SHOW their
STRENGTH/POWER/FORCE
IN THE
BEAUTIFUL/PRETTY WAR.
I PREFER BAD APPLES
The ROBBER/THEIF
BARKS/SNARLS/RANTS AT
THE WIDE/BROAD SIDE OF
THE LAUREL tree.
TU#7: We don’t know a lot about this author of a single poem, except
that this author was born in the mid-90’s BC and died in 55 BC. His tone
towards Memmius, the addressee of his poem, tells us that he was not
aristocratic. Name this poet, whose didactic poem discusses the nature of
man’s soul, among other natural things.
Titus LUCRETIUS Carus
B1: Give the Latin name to this poem.
DĒ RĒRUM NATŪRĀ
B2: Lucretius’ poem espouses the ideas of what philosopher who lived in
the fourth century BC?
EPICURUS
TU#8: In this Republican assembly, both plebeian and patrician citizens
were divided into groups according to location, and not property. Among
other responsibilities, it elected quaestors and curule aediles.
B1: Give the Latin term for the subset of the Comitia Tributa, which
elected the plebeian aediles and tribunes.
B2: Give the Latin term for the patrician assembly in charge of electing
consuls, praetors, and (with the Senate) censors.
TU#9: Name this island which was the largest of a group of islands
Homer called Dia, since it was the location of the cave which Zeus was
raised. This island was also the temporary home of Ariadne after
Theseus abandoned her.
B1: According to one tradition, what god then fell in love with Ariadne
and married her?
B2: According to another tradition by Homer, Ariadne was already
married to Dionysus when she arrived at Naxos, and was killed by what
goddess?
TU#10: We all have seen and can translate the Latin abbreviation R.I.P.,
but less well-known is the variant H.R.I.P. Give the Latin word and
English meaning for the “H” in this variant of the abbreviation, which
would have told a person a little more information about the location of
the burial.
B1 and 2: Another variant of R.I.P., with roughly the same idea, is H.S.
For five points each, provide two different accepted Latin phrases for
which H.S. stands.
TU#11: In September of 9 AD, this Roman general led three legions into
a slaughter at the hands of the Cherusci general Arminius. Name the
Roman whose name became synonymous with the disaster at Teutoburg
Forest.
B1: Name the river at which this battle established the boundary of the
Roman Empire for the next several centuries.
B2: Name the Roman leader who led the retaliation, recovering two of
the three legionary standards, until Tiberius recalled him.
TU#12: Latin students may be more familiar with this man’s son of the
same name, but this “Rhetor” from Corduba in Hispania wrote a history
of Rome early in life. Name this author of a manual on rhetoric and
rhetoricians, written to please his sons.
B1: Under which emperor was the younger Seneca forced to commit
suicide?
COMITIA TRIBUTA /
TRIBAL ASSEMBLY
CONCILIUM PLEBIS
COMITIA CENTURIATA
NAXOS
DIONYSUS / BACCHUS
ARTEMIS
HĪC = HERE
HĪC SEPULTUS / HĪC SITUS
Publius Quinctilius VARUS
RHINE RIVER
GERMANICUS Julius Caesar
Lucius Annaeus SENECA
NERO
B2: Name any one of Seneca’s eight surviving plays, most of which were
common myths centering on implacable women.
TROJAN WOMEN, OEDIPUS,
MEDEA, MAD HERCULES,
PHOENICIAN WOMEN,
PHAEDRA, AGAMEMNON,
THYESTES
TU#13: Distinguish in meaning between pareō and parcō.
PAREO = OBEY, PARCO =
SPARE
MINUO = LESSON, MINOR =
THREATEN, MENACE,
HANG
B1: Distinguish in meaning between minuō and minor.
B2: Which of the four verbs previously mentioned (pareō, parcō, minuō,
and minor) is the only one that cannot be rendered with a dative object?
MINUŌ
TU#14: Statues of what women were featured in the portico of Augustus’
Palatine Temple of Apollo, which is an odd choice considering nearly all
fifty of them killed their new husbands on their wedding night?
DANAIDS
B1: Whose sons were killed by the Danaids?
AEGYPTUS’
B2: Which daughter did not kill her new husband?
HYPERMNESTRA /
AMYMONE
TU#15: Whom does Eusabius laud for his virtue, despite the fact that he
left his first wife, Helena, to marry Theodora, the step-daughter of
Maximian. Later, this man defeated Maximian’s son Maxentius to
become sole ruler.
B1: Name the site of this decisive battle in October of 312 AD.
B2: After Helena and Theodora, Constantine the Great married this
woman in 307 AD.
CONSTANTINE (I) THE
GREAT
MILVIAN BRIDGE
FAUSTA