Melior, Melius means
Better
Vestimenta means:
Clothes
Murmillo, retiarius, and secutor
are all types of …
gladiators
Emperor Augustus lived around
1st century BC
Hadrian lived around …
2nd century AD
Tarquinius Superbus lived around
…
500 BC
Julius Caesar lived around …
1st century BC
Name that province: Gaul
France
Name that province: Germania
Germany
Name that province: Hispania
Spain
Name that province: Britannia
England
Name that province: Hibernia
Ireland
Name that province: Dacia
Romania
Who was the father of Icarus?
Daedalus
Whom did Theseus kill?
The Minotaur
Whom did Perseus kill?
The Gorgon Medusa
Translate: Caveat Emptor
Let the buyer beware!
Translate: et al.
Stands for ‘et alia’ – and others
Vs.
Stands for ‘versus’ – to turn/against
Ad astra per aspera
To the stars through difficulty
Status quo
The state by which (things remain the
same)
Ars longa, vita brevis
Art is long, life is short(normally
refers to ‘art endures’)
Derivitive: INTROSPECTION
INTRA: Inside
SPECTO: Look
Derivitive: OMNISCIENT
OMNIS: all/every
SCIO: I know
Derivitive: INCREDULOUS
IN: Not
CREDO: to believe
Derivitive: BENEVOLENT
BENE: Well
VOLO: to want
Quid Novi?
What’s up? What’s new?
Surge!
Get up! Rise Up!
Bene respondisti
You have responded well … correct
Mihi placet
It pleases me
Colors: Ruber
RED
Colors: caeruleus
Blue (has to do with the sea and sky)
Colors: albus
White
Scribe in tabula
Write on the board!
Aperite libros
Open your books!
Roman Education …
Copied from the Greeks. Both boys
and girls were educated. It stressed
speech, gravitas, and law.
What was the Caldarium?
Place in the Baths (hottest room)
What was the Frigidarium?
Place in the Baths (Coldest room)
What was the Tepidarium?
Place in the Baths (lukewarm/changing room)
Where did Romans go for Chariot
Racing?
Circus Maximus
Where did Romans go for
Gladiatorial Combats?
Colosseum (Flavian Ampitheater)
Who stole the golden fleece
from Colchis?
Jason and the Argonauts
What sorceress cut-up her little
brother and threw him into the sea?
Medea
What greek hero wandered the
Mediterranean for 10 years before
returning home to Ithica?
Odysseus
Which Greek hero killed Medusa
as well as the Krakon?
Perseus
Which Greek hero slew the
Minotaur before fleeing with
Ariadne?
Theseus
Which Greek inventor devised wings
to free his son, Icarus, from their
imprisonment on Crete?
Daedalus
Which monster had the heads of a
lion and goat along with a snake for
a tail? Killed by Bellerophon
The Chimera
Where would souls go when they
died in the Classical world?
The underworld
Who was the boatman who ferried
souls across the river Styx?
Charon
What was the river of
forgetfulness?
Lethe
That three headed monster guarded
the entrance to the underworld?
Cerberus
Who was Pluto’s wife in the
Underworld?
Proserpina (Persephone) … daughter
of Ceres
Who was the first emperor of
Rome?
Octavian (Augustus)
What Carthaginian general crossed
the Alps with Elephants and was
finally defeated by Scipio Africanus
at Zama?
Hannibal
What Roman General conquered
Gaul?
Gaius Julius Caesar
What Egyptian queen married Julius
Caesar and bore him a son,
Caesarian? She went on to wed
Marc Antony and lose to Octavian
during the Civil War.
Cleopatra
What Roman married Cleopatra and
lost to Octavian at the battle of
Actium?
Marc Antony
What are the wars called between
Carthage and Rome (3 in total)?
The Punic Wars (appx 250 BC to 150
BC)
When did Caesar conquer Gaul?
1st Century BC (appx 70 BC)
What sea lies East of Italy but
west of Greece?
The Adriatic Sea
What sea lies East of Greece but
West of Turkey?
The Aegean Sea
What sea lies North of Turkey? It’s
where the famed Golden Fleece was
located?
The Black Sea
What river divides Gaul from
Germania?
The Rhine
What river runs through
Northern Italy?
The Po
What river runs through Egypt?
The Nile
What river did Julius Caesar cross
when he began the civil war saying,
“Alea iacta est.”
The Rubicon
What province is East of Gaul but
North of Helvetia?
Germania
What province is in North Africa? It
lies east of Carthage but West of
Judea?
Aegyptus
What island is at the foot of the
boot of Italy? It is where the
Cyclopes lived.
Sicily
What island is South of the Aegean
sea? It is where the Minotaur lived.
Crete
Translate the idiom, “in animo
habere”
To have in mind
Translate the idiom “iter facere”
To make a march/journey
Translate the idiom, “brevi
tempore”
Within a short time
Licet
It is permitted
placet
It pleases (me)
videtur
It seems
Translate: Potest
He is able
Translate: poterit
He will be able
Translate: Potuerant
They had been able
Translate: Potuimus
We have been able
Translate: Vis
You want
Translate: Vult
They want
Translate: it
He is going
Translate: Fers
You are carrying; you carry/bear
Transate: ivit
He went
Translate: Dic
Say!
Transate: Duc
Lead!
Transate: Fac
Make/do!
Transate: fer
Bear/carry!
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use “NUM” in English
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Give me a sentence that would
use “NONNE” in English
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