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WJCL Summer Rounds—Tournament III Written by Michael Kearney Round I

TU1: Say in Latin, using an ablative absolute: When the big dinner had been prepared, all the friends were very happy. CENA MAGNA PARATA, OMNES AMICI LAETISSIMI ERANT. B1: Say in Latin: After giving the signal, Romulus ordered the young men to seize the girls. ROMULUS SIGNO DATO IUVENES PUELLAS RAPERE IUSSIT. B2: Say in Latin: Just when my brother was going to kiss the girl, her father walked in. FRATRE MEO PUELLAM OSCULATURO PATER EIUS INTRAVIT.

TU2: Identify the rhetorical device in this line: Neptunus me terret. METONYMY B1: Identify the rhetorical device in this line, taken from Catullus 14: cur me tot male perderes poetis? HYPERBOLE B2: Identify the rhetorical device in this phrase: oculis me videt. PLEONASM

TU3: The eldest of king Pelias’ daughters, what woman agreed to accompany Thanatos to the Underworld in place of her husband? ALCESTIS B1: Who rescued Alcestis by defeating Thanatos in a wrestling match? B2: What task was required by Pelias to marry Alcestis? YOKE LION AND BOAR TO CHARIOT

TU4: Quot sunt treciens centum? TRECENTI B1: Quot sunt mille et mille? DUO MILIA B2: What word would express 10,000 in Latin? MYRIAS

TU5: During what eight-day period at the beginning of a child’s life was a boy known as a pupus and a girl a pupa? PRIMORDIA B1: What name is given to the day on which Roman children were named following the primordia? DIES LUSTRICUS B2: In front of what prefect were children in Rome required to be registered? PRAEFECTUS AERARII

TU6: What Insubrian Gaul, who came to Rome after the battle of Clastidium, ranked first according to Volcacius Sedigitius and wrote the Plocium? CAECILIUS STATIUS B1: Terence read what first work of his to an aged Statius? ANDRIA B2: Where was Statius born? MEDIOLANUM/MILAN

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TU7: What man, whose bones were taken to Gerenia by Nestor after his death to Eurypylus, led thirty ships to Troy from Messenia with his brother Podaleirius? MACHAON B1: What queen of the is also sometimes regarded as the killer of Machaon? PENTHESILEA B2: Who was the father of Machaon and Podaleirius?

TU8: Differentiate in meaning between dico and dito. TO SAY and TO ENRICH B1: Differentiate in meaning between consumo and consummo. TO COMPLETE and TO SUM UP B2: Differentiate in meaning between arceo and arcuo. TO (EN)CLOSE and MAKE/BEND IN FORM OF BOW

TU9: Which of the following, if any, is not derived from the same Latin root as the others: frail, fritter, infringe, friction? FRICTION B1: From what Latin verb, with what meaning, is friction derived? FRICO, TO RUB B2: Which of the following, if any, is not derived from the same Latin root as the others: infant, nefarious, fairy, fate, infatuate? INFATUATE (others for, to speak)

TU10: What Roman general, who gained his cognomen in the siege of a Volscian city in 493 B.C., was subsequently exiled and led troops of the Volsci to besiege Rome? (C. MARCIUS) CORIOLANUS B1: What wife and mother of Coriolanus dissuaded him from attacking the city? VOLUMNIA and VETURIA (respectively) B2: What battle of 477 B.C. against Veii witnessed the near-extinction of the Fabii? CREMERA

TU11: What descendant of Melampus, who was loved by both and , married Eriphyle but was betrayed by her? AMPHIARAUS B1: Eriphyle was appointed arbitress between Amphiaraus and what brother of hers? ADRASTUS B2: At what the funeral of what king of Thebes did Amphiaraus officiate? OEDIPUS

TU12: Make the phrase dulcis domus dative plural. DULCIBUS DOMIBUS B1: Make the phrase sapiens senatus genitive singular. SAPIENTIS SENATI/US B2: Make the phrase placidus lacus genitive plural. PLACIDORUM LACUUM B3: Make the phrase placidus lacus ablative plural. PLACIDIS LACUBUS

TU13: What author wrote a verse epigram on Terence and the Iter, on his travel to the Battle of Munda in 45 B.C? (C.) IULIUS CAESAR

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B1: What book of Caesar’s Gallic Wars deals with the campaign against the Atlantic coast peoples? BOOK 3 B2: What minor work of Caesar, written near the end of his life, refutes Cicero’s praise of a certain Roman, who had recently died at Utica? ANTICATO

TU14: Translate the following sentence from Latin to English: Semper fēlīx, dummodo Latīnam amēs. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE HAPPY/LUCKY, PROVIDED YOU LOVE LATIN B1: Translate the following line from Livy into English: falsus utinam vātēs sim. I WISH I MAY BE/WERE A FALSE PROPHET B2: Translate this bit from Cicero into English: utinam mē mortuum vīdissēs. IF ONLY YOU HAD SEEN ME DEAD

TU15: Because he attempted to reform the corn laws and the taxation of Asia, what tribune of 123 and 122 was destroyed by the forces of Lucius Opimius along with 3,000 of his followers? GAIUS GRACCHUS B1: To what hill had Gracchus fled and was there destroyed? AVENTINE B2: What man, who was the only ex-consul to hold the position of tribune and worked to implement a citizenship policy for Italians, was also killed? M. FULVIUS FLACCUS

TU16: For the verb eo, give the third person singular present passive subjunctive. EATUR B1: For the verb eo, give the second person singular pluperfect active subjunctive. ISSES B2: Make that form perfect. IERIS

TU17: Listen carefully to the following passage, which I will read twice, and answer in English the question that follows: Pavo coram grue pennas suas explicans, quanta est, inquit, formositas mea et tua deformitas! At grus evolans, et quanta est, inquit, levitas mea et tua tarditas! —Monet haec fabula, ne ob aliquod bonum, quod nobis natura tribuit, alios contemnamus quibus natura alia et fortasse majora dedit. The question: What does the peacock unfold in front of the crane? ITS FEATHERS B1: How does the crane respond to the insult? FLIES AWAY (which peacock cannot do) B2: What’s the moral of the story? THOUGH WE HAVE MAY GOOD ATTRIBUTES, DON’T FLAUNT THEM, OTHERS MAY HAVE DIFFERENT, AND BETTER, GIFTS

TU18: What author, exiled for lampooning the actor Paris, derides Domitian in the course of his sixteen satires? JUVENAL B1: What is Juvenal’s full name? DECIMUS IUNIUS IUVENALIS B2: What did Juvenal declare was his subject in his First Satire? QUIDQUID AGUNT HOMINES/WHATEVER MEN DO

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TU19: What man, who welcomed Peleus when he was banished from Aegina and Heracles when he fled Eurystheus, became a kingfisher with his wife upon their deaths? CEYX B1: Who was the wife of Ceyx? ALCYONE B2: Of what god was Ceyx the son? EOSPHORUS/LUCIFER

TU20: At what battle of 324 A.D. did Constantine defeat Licinius, becoming the emperor of the whole empire? CHRYSOPOLIS B1: At what earlier battle had Constantine driven Licinius across the Bosporus? ADRIANOPLE B2: What emperor perished in 378 A.D. at another Battle of Adrianople? VALENS

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WJCL Summer Rounds—Tournament III Written by Michael Kearney Round II

TU1: What man’s daughter was condemned to be a virgin priestess when she refused to sleep with Heracles, although 49 of his other daughters did sleep with him? THESPIUS B1: On Heracles’ way to kill what creature did this super-slumber party occur? CITHAERONIAN LION B2: What other man is more commonly remembered as the killer of that lion? ALCATHOUS

TU2: Noted by Quintilian for his lactea ubertas, what author was jokingly called a “Pompeian” by Augustus for the Republican sympathies in his Ab Urbe Condita? LIVY B1: Name one of Livy’s sources. ONE OF VALERIUS ANTIAS, LICINIUS MACER, CLAUDIUS QUADRIGARIUS, FABIUS PICTOR B2: With the death of what step-son of Augustus in 9 B.C. did Ab Urbe Condita likely end? DRUSUS I

TU3: What derivative of the verb oro means “impossible to stop or prevent?” INEXORABLE B1: What derivative of the verb sapio means “not interesting or exciting?” It is often used to refer to bad soccer games. INSIPID B2: What derivative of the verb sequor means “attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery?” OBSEQUIOUS

TU4: What use of the dative case is found in the following sentence: Versātur mihi ante oculōs. REFERENCE B1: What use of the dative case is found in the following sentence: facilis descensus Averno. LOCAL B2: What use of the dative case is found in the following sentence, which I read in class: Ecce tibi Sebosus. ETHICAL

TU5: What creature, which was reared by Amisodarus, ravaged Lycia until she was killed by Bellerophon? CHIMAERA B1: Name the animals which comprised the Chimaera, from front to back. LION, GOAT, SERPENT/SNAPE, RESPECTIVELY B2: What king sent Bellerophon to kill the Chimaera to get rid of him? IOBATES

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TU6: What emperor, whose name derives from the Gallic coat he introduced to Rome, established the Constitutio Antoniniana, granting citizenship to all free men throughout the empire? CARACALLA B1: What mother of Caracalla played a large role in the dual monarchy of Carcalla and Geta? JULIA DOMNA B2: What silver piece, worth two denarii, did Carcalla introduce to Rome? ANTONIANUS

TU7: From what Latin adjective, with what meaning, is “piano” derived? PLANUS, LEVEL B1: From what Latin noun, with what meaning, are “gout” and “gutter” derived? GUTTA, DROP B2: What unrelated English word, derived from the Latin word for “throat,” means “harsh- sounding?” GUTTURAL

TU8: Which of the following Latin words would not be found in a Roman house: torus, focus, famula, ripa? RIPA B1: Which of the following Latin nouns would one find outside: gramen, imago, spiramentum, medicamentum? GRAMEN (grass) B2: Define three of the four words from the previous bonus. GRASS, IMAGE/MASK, VENT, DRUG

TU9: What Campanian author, who fought in the First Punic War, narrates an epic beginning from Aeneas in his Bellum Punicum? (CN.) NAEVIUS B1: In what meter was the Bellum Punicum written? SATURNIAN B2: What genre of literature, which include his Romulus and Clastidium, did Naevius invent? FABULA PRAETEXTA

TU10: At what conference of 38 B.C. did Octavian and Antony provide each other with ships and troops, as well as renew the triumvirate for a further five years? TARENTUM B1: What lieutenant of Octavian, who proved the difference at Actium, was constructing a new fleet and training its crews during the conference? (M.) AGRIPPA B2: On what lake, which he converted into a naval harbor, was Agrippa constructing this fleet? AVERNUS

TU11: Differentiate in meaning between olea and oleo. OLIVE and TO SMELL B1: Differentiate in meaning between molo and modo. TO GRIND and ONLY B2: Differentiate in meaning between profectio and profecto. DEPARTURE and SURELY

TU12: What town just north of the Ebro appealed to Rome for aid and largely sparked the Second Punic War? SAGUNTUM

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B1: At what site, which later saw Roman siege in 209 BC, did Hasdrubal the Fair establish a base in 228 AD? CARTAGENA/CARTHAGO NOVA/NEW CARTHAGE B2: What Carthaginian politician led a faction which attempted to stop a war with Rome but failed? HANNO

TU13: What son of Faunus and Marica would have welcomed Aeneas to Latium and offered him the hand of Lavinia had he not been dissuaded by his wife? LATINUS B1: What prophecy encouraged Latinus to marry Aeneas to Lavinia? THAT LAVINIA SHOULD MARRY A FOREIGNER B2: What was Latinus’ relationship to Saturn? GREAT GRANDSON

TU14: Translate the following sentence from Latin to English: celeriter incedendo, exercitus ad mare decima hora advenit. BY MARCHING/ADVANCING QUICKLY, THE ARMY REACHED THE SEA WITHIN THE TENTH HOUR B1: Now try: Vobis omnibus ad forum festinandum erit si consulem audire cupitis. YOU WILL ALL HAVE TO HURRY TO THE FORUM IF YOU WISH TO HEAR THE CONSUL B2: Now: Filia mea tristis est quod canis interficiendus mihi erit. MY DAUGHTER IS UPSET BECAUSE I’M GOING TO HAVE TO PUT DOWN OUR DOG

TU15: What author, who was elected a bishop while still unbaptized, authored a systematic synthesis of Christian doctrine, based on Cicero’s De Officiis? ST. AMBROSE B1: Of what city was Ambrose bishop? MILAN B2: Name one of the two emperors for whom Ambrose delivered funeral speeches. VALENTINIAN II or THEODOSIUS I

TU16: What king of Rome extended Roman holdings to the Mediterranean sea by adding the Maesian forest and the saltpans of Ostia? ANCUS MARCIUS B1: What king of Rome heeded the advice of his augur, Attius Navius, who cut a whetstone with a razor and counseled against adding mounted troops to the army? TARQUINIUS PRISCUS B2: What king of Rome built the Regia, the royal residence of the kings? NUMA POMPILIUS

TU17: What history, for which Pliny the Younger predicted eternal fame, narrates from the Year of the Four Emperors to the death of Domitian? HISTORIAE B1: With whose death do the Annales of Tacitus begin? AUGUSTUS B2: What fourth-century A.D. author wrote a continuation of Tacitus’ Historiae? AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS

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TU18: Talaus and Castor bound the gloves on the hands of Polydeuces when he was preparing to fight what king of the Bebryces? AMYCUS B1: With a blow to what body part did Amycus die? (BEHIND) EAR/ELBOW B2: What enemy of the Bebryces immediately swooped in to raid the country? MARIANDYNI

TU19: Listen carefully to the following passage, taken from Caesar’s Bellum Civile, which I will read twice, and answer in Latin the question that follows: Caesar omnibus rebus relictis persequendum sibi Pompeium existimavit, quascumque in partes se ex fuga recepisset, ne rursus copias comparare alias et bellum renovare posset, et quantumcumque itineris equitatu efficere poterat, cotidie progrediebatur legionemque unam minoribus itineribus subsequi iussit. The question: Quotiens progrediebatur Caesar? COTIDIE B1+B2: For five points each: Cur Caesar existimavit persequendum Pompeium? NE RURSUS COPIAS COMPARARE ALIAS et BELLUM RENOVARE POSSET

TU20: Who authored the following quotation: Durate et vosmet rebus servate secundis. VERGIL B1: Translate that quotation into English. ENDURE AND SAVE YOURSELVES FOR BETTER TIMES B2: Who authored the following quotation: Si vis pacem, bellum para. VEGETIUS

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WJCL Summer Rounds—Tournament III Written by Michael Kearney Round III

TU1: What governor, who was descended from Gallic chieftains, launched a revolt in 68 A.D. in support of Galba? (C. IULIUS) VINDEX B1: What general, who twice refused the purple, put down the revolt of Vindex? (L.) VERGINIUS RUFUS B2: At what battle of 68 A.D. was Vindex defeated by Verginius Rufus? VESONTIO

TU2: Give an antonym of lenio. FIRMO/DURO/CORROBORO/(EX)ASPERO/CONGELO B1: Give an antonym of spargo. COLLIGO/CONGERO/CONDUCO/COGO/LEGO B2: Give an antonym of gelo. RESOLVO/DECOQUO/CONFLO/LIQUO/LIQUEFACIO

TU3: Give the English for the motto of Everton Football Club, nil satis nisi optimum. NOTHING ENOUGH EXCEPT THE BEST/ONLY THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH B1: Give the English for the motto of Tottenham Hotspurs Football Club, audere est facere. TO DARE IS TO DO B2: Give the English for the motto of Manchester City, superbia in proelia. PRIDE IN BATTLE

TU4: What man, who had perhaps sided with the Greeks against his father Laomedon, was ransomed by his sister Hesione’s veil? PODARCES/PRIAM B1: To what lieutenant did Heracles give Hesione? TELAMON B2: Who was the son of Telamon and Hesione? TEUCER

TU5: A schoolmate of Vergil, what author was the dedicatee of his tenth Eclogue and sang passionately for Lycoris, Cytheris, or Volumnia? CORNELIUS GALLUS B1: At what village in Narbonese Gaul was Gallus born? FORUM IULII B2: What poet dedicated a collection of prose myths about love, Erotika pathemata, to Gallus? PARTHENIUS

TU6: Sports are often said to have replaced religion in American culture. An appropriate etymological parallel can be seen in what derivative of a Latin noun for “temple,” meaning “an enthusiastic devotee?” FAN B1: Speaking of sports, from what Latin verb, with what meaning, is the word “sports” derived? PORTO, TO CARRY B2: What Latin verb, with what meaning, lies at the root of tennis? TENEO, TO HOLD

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TU7: What man, who is credited with the invention of dice, foiled Odysseus’ plot to avoid the Trojan War by placing Telemachus in front of his plow? PALAMEDES B1: After being framed by Odysseus at Troy, in what manner did Palamedes die? STONED B2: What father of Palamedes avenged him by inducing several of the leaders’ wives to betray them with lovers? NAUPLIUS

TU8: What author, who worked in a mill before hitting it big, authored 25, 130, or 21 comedies, depending on whom you ask? PLAUTUS B1: What later authored determined that 21 were authentic, based largely upon the work of his teacher, Aelius Stilo? VARRO REATINUS/OF REATE (prompt on Varro) B2: What “numberless meters” did Plautus invent? NUMERI INNUMERI

TU9: A former jurist, what emperor was selected by the Senate despite his advanced age, becoming the first of the Good Emperors? NERVA B1: From when to when did Nerva rule? 96-98 AD B2: What was Nerva’s full name? M. COCCEIUS NERVA

TU10: Which of the following, if any, is not derived from the same Latin root as the others: ply, plenty, comply, supplement? PLY (plico) B1: Which of the following, if any, is not derived from the same Latin root as the others: bonfire, bounty, bonbon, debonair? BONFIRE B2: Which of the following, if any, is not derived from the same Latin root as the others: vowel, vouch, provocative, vow? VOW

TU11: Say in Latin, using a dative: This man hates me. HIC ODIO ME HABET B1: Say in Latin, using a dative: These things were a source of anxiety to him. HAEC SIBI ERANT CURAE B2: Say in Latin, using two datives: They sent cavalry to help Caesar. EQUITES MISSERUNT CAESARI AUXILIO

TU12: What “sons of Mars” appealed to Carthage for assistance against the Syracusans in Messana? MAMERTINES B1: What king of Syracuse led them at that time? HIERO II B2: Unrelatedly except for the date, what former consul introduced gladiatorial games to Rome in 264 BC? D. IUNIUS BRUTUS

TU13: Perhaps the namesakes of the Pithecusae islands, what sons of and Theia were warned to not to fall into the hands of Blackbottom? CERCOPES (PASSALUS AND ACMON)

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B1: What were the real names of the Cercopes? PASSALUS AND ACMON B2: Heracles captured the pair while in the service of Omphale, a queen of what region? LYDIA

TU14: What epic, which lacks a true hero, was left unfinished in Book 10 after the suicide of its author Lucan? PHARSALIA/BELLUM CIVILE B1: What work of Lucan describes the descent into the Underworld? CATACHTHONION B2: What unfinished tragedy did Lucan also compose? MEDEA

TU15: Listen carefully to the following passage, about Hercules’ tenth labor, which I will read twice, and answer in English the question that follows: Hercules hoc donum libentissime accepit, nullam enim navem in his regionibus invenire potuerat. Tum lintrem deduxit, et ventum nactus idoneum post breve tempus ad insulam pervenit. Ubi ex incolis cognovit quo in loco boves essent, in eam partem statim profectus est et a rege Geryone postulavit ut boves sibi traderentur. Cum tamen ille hoc facere nollet, Hercules et regem ipsum et Eurytionem, qui erat ingenti magnitudine corporis, interfecit. The question: What two people did Hercules kill? GERYON (THE KING) AND EURYTION B1: What could Hercules not find? SHIP B2: What did Hercules demand? GERYON HAND OVER THE COWS

TU16: Vulgus, virus, and pelagus are all what gender? NEUTER B1: Give the accusative plural of pelagus. PELAGE B2: What similarly formed word means “sea monster?” CETUS

TU17: For the verb frico, give the second person singular pluperfect active indicative. FRICUERAS B1: Give the corresponding form for caneo. CANUERAS B2: Give the corresponding perfect form for promo. PROMPSISTI

TU18: Because he granted haven to Polyeidus, what king of Megara was attacked by and eventually betrayed by his daughter Scylla? NISUS B1: Scylla cut off a lock of what color hair from her father? PURPLE B2: Nisus was turned into what type of bird? SEA-EAGLE/OSPREY

TU19: Also known as the clades Variana, what battle against the Cherusci under Arminius witnessed the loss of three legions and 20,000 men? TEUTOBERG FOREST B1: What maligned general led the Romans at Teutoberg Forest? QUINCTILIUS VARUS B2: What king of the Marcomanni and Suebi and enemy of Tiberius before his principate led a protracted struggle with Arminius, perhaps forestalling German entrance into Roman territory? MAROBODUUS

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TU20: What work of Cato, the oldest fully extant Latin prose work, discusses the importance of cabbage and selling slaves when they become too old? DE AGRICULTURA/DE RE RUSTICA B1: What work of Cato was a dictionary of various subjects, addressed to his son? PRAECEPTA AD FILIUM B2: What praenomen was shared by Cato and his son? MARCUS

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WJCL Summer Rounds—Tournament III Written by Michael Kearney Semi-Final Round

TU1: What author’s work De Poetis formulates the canon of ten writers of palliatae in order of merit? VOLCACIUS SEDIGITUS B1: Order the following authors from best to worst, based on Sedigitus’ canon: Plautus, Terence, Ennius, Caecilius Statius. CAECILIUS STATIUS (1st), PLAUTUS (2nd), TERENCE (6th), ENNIUS (10th/last) B2: Sedigitus was in the circle of what man, who served as Marius’ co-commander at Vercellae? (Q.) LUTATIUS CATULUS

TU2: Which of the following, if any, is not derived from the same Latin root as the others: size, sierra, sedate, siege? SIERRA (serra, saw) B1: From what Latin noun, with what meaning, is “sierra” derived? SERRA, SAW B2: Which of the following, if any, is not derived from the same Latin root as the others: certain, decree, recrimination, concrete? CONCRETE (cresco)

TU3: What Latin deponent means “to comfort?” SOLOR B1+B2: For five points each, what two deponent verbs can mean “to measure?” METIOR and MODULOR

TU4: What king of Megara accidentally killed his son Callipolis, rebuilt the walls of his city, and slew the Cithaeronian lion? ALCATHOUS B1: What famous seer came to Megara to purify Alcathous? POLYEIDUS B2: Alcathous left his throne to what grandson, the son of Periboea? AJAX TELAMON

TU5: What conflict, brought about soon after the end of the First Punic War, saw Carthage fight her own mercenaries and, later, the Romans? TRUCELESS WAR B1: What province did Rome acquire as a result of the conflict? CORSICA and SARDINIA (as one province) B2: What Carthaginian had brought the mercenaries to Africa and largely stamped the rebellion out? HAMILCAR BARCA

TU6: Quid Anglice significat sarcio? TO PATCH B1: Quid Anglice significat defetiscor? TO GROW TIRED/WEARY, TO FAINT B2: Quid Anglice significat blandior? TO FAWN

TU7: What grammarian, chosen as tutor for Augustus’ grandsons, authored De Verborum Significatu, as well as the Fasti, used by Ovid? VERRIUS FLACCUS

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B1: In what city was Flaccus born? PRAENESTE B2: What other grammarian wrote the 29-book Commentarii Grammatici? NIGIDIUS FIGULUS

TU8: The howling of wolves, the cries of cranes, and the wings of all saved people from what destructive event? FLOOD B1: What son of Zeus by a Sithnid escaped with the help of the cries of cranes? MEGARUS B2: The inhabitants of Delphi founded what new city after escaping the flood due to the howling of wolves? LYCOREIA

TU9: In 167 AD, what two tribes broke across the Danube and fought against Marcus Aurelius until his death? MARCOMANNI and QUADI B1: After defeating what other tribe in 175 did Marcus Aurelius assume the title Sarmaticus? IAZYGES B2: Where did Marcus Aurelius die on the Danube front? VINDOBONA

TU10: For the verb tondeo, give the first person singular perfect active subjunctive. TOTONDERIM B1: Give the corresponding form for the verb reperio. REPPERIM B2: Give the corresponding form for the verb pango. PEPIGERIM

TU11: What use of the subjunctive is found in the following sentence: Hōc dubium est, uter nostrum sit inverēcundior. INDIRECT QUESTION B1: What use of the subjunctive is found in this sentence: Tē rogō atque ōrō ut eum iuvēs. SUBSTANTIVE CLAUSE OF PURPOSE/INDIRECT COMMAND B2: What use of the subjunctive is found in this sentence: Nōn recūsat quīn iūdicēs. DOUBTING/HINDERING, ETC.

TU12: Listen carefully to the following passage, a letter from Fronto to Marcus Aurelius, which I will read twice, and answer in English the question that follows: Meum fratrem beatum, qui vos in isto biduo viderit! at ego Romae haereo conpedibus aureis vinctus, nec aliter kal. Sept. expecto quam superstitiosi stellam, qua visa ieiunium polluant. vale, Caesar, decus patriae et Romani nominis. vale, domine. The question: By what is Fronto being held at Rome? GOLDEN FETTERS B1: For what day is Fronto waiting? KALENDS/1ST OF SEPTEMBER B2: Who saw Fronto for the past two days? HIS BROTHER

TU13: Refusing to worship , whose daughters imagined themselves to be cows, roamed the mountains, and ate the children at their breasts? PROETUS

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B1: Who eventually cured the daughters of their condition? MELAMPUS B2: What price did he extract from Proetus for this deed? ⅔ OF HIS KINGDOM (NOT ½ or ⅓)

TU14: Who followed the example of his father-in-law Mithridates, overrunning Cappadocia, snatching Mesopotamia, and finishing off the Seleucids after consolidating his power in Armenia? TIGRANES (THE GREAT) B1: After winning/not winning the Third Mithridatic War, what commander quickly took Tigranocerta, despite his relative few forces? (L.) LICINIUS LUCULLUS B2: What king of Bithynia bequeathed his kingdom to Rome in 74 BC? NICOMEDES IV

TU15: What author, also an expert on land surveying, was the curator aquarum under Nerva and wrote a treatise on aqueducts? FRONTINUS B1: Name that treatise. DE AQUIS URBIS ROMAE/DE AQUAE DUCTU URBIS ROMAE B2: What four-book work of Frontinus was a collection of military anecdotes in the vain of Valerius Maximus? STRATEGEMATA

TU16: Using two Greek forms, say in Latin: Tell us a story, ! NARRA NOBIS MYTHON, ATLA! B1: Using a Greek form, say in Latin: We saw Vergil, the author of the Georgics. VIDIMUS VERGILIUM, SCRIPTOREM GEORGICON B2: Using two Greek forms, say in Latin: I sing of a hero and a . HEROIS NAIDOSQUE CANO

TU17: What author, who was put to death under Caracalla, accompanied his friend Septimius Severus to Britain and authored 37 books of Quaestiones? PAPINIAN B1: How many books of Responsa did Papinian author? 19 B2: What other jurist flourished under Caracalla and became the guardian of Alexander Severus? ULPIAN

TU18: Pursued by Minos for nine months, what daughter of Zeus and Carme leapt into the sea, becoming the goddess Dictynna? BRITOMARTIS B1: What woman ran faster than but was captured when she slipped and fell on fresh hides he had placed in her path? APEMOSYNE B2: What brother of Apemosyne discovered she was pregnant by Hermes and kicked her to death? ALTHAEMENES

TU19: What specific type of heteroclites are fames and pubes? 3RD/5TH B1: What type of nouns are Neptunine and Aeneades? PATRONYMICS B2: What class of nouns includes vulpes? EPICENE

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TU20: What agitator set up a new court to deal with the crime of ‘derogation to the majesty of Rome’ but instead earned a Senatus Consultum Ultimum for mob violence in 100 B.C.? (L. APPULEIUS) SATURNINUS B1: What man originally was supported by Saturninus but later destroyed Saturninus at the behest of the Senate? MARIUS B2: What lackey, who, although praetor, was illegally suing for the consulship of 99, killed the candidate Gaius Memmius and perished with Saturninus? (C. SERVILIUS) GLAUCIA

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WJCL Summer Rounds—Tournament III Written by Michael Kearney Final Round

TU1: What author, who was nicknamed Eusebius, loved Rusticiana, was proclaimed the greatest living orator by Prudentius, and asked Gratian to restore the altar of victory? SYMMACHUS B1: What author wrote the De Compendiosa Doctrina for Constantine’s son, 20 books on the diction, grammar, and subject material of older Latin authors? NONIUS MARCELLUS B2: What late author wrote the De Dei Natali, dedicated to Cerellius, on the noble’s birthday? CENSORINUS

TU2: In what practice did a student assume the character of some famous historical person at the point of making a decision and discuss the possible courses of action? SUASORIA B1: What was the practice of public speaking called? DECLAMATIO B2: What was the generous donation of the patrons whose schools charged no fees? HONORARIUM

TU3: Orsedice, Laogore, and Braesia, whom condemned to lie with strangers, were daughters of what king of Cyprus? CINYRAS B1: What wife of Cinyras did he betray when he accidentally lay with his daughter Myrrha? CENCHREIS B2: Aphrodite caused what king’s daughters, who included Timandra and Clytemnestra, to lie with strangers? TYNDAREUS

TU4: What Thracian god, who was similar in character to Dionysus, received messengers every four years, who were flung onto three spears to see if they died? SALMOXIS/ZALMOXIS/GEBELZEIZIS B1: What writer provides us the source for this story in his Histories? HERODOTUS B2: What other Thracian/Phrygian god rode a horse and was also similar to Dionysus? SABAZIUS

TU5: Translate the following sentence from Latin to English: Naves vento tenebantur quominus in portum redirent. THE SHIPS WERE PREVENTED BY THE WIND FROM RETURNING TO THE HARBOR B1: Now translate this sentence: Vix inhiberi potuit, quin saxa iaceret. HE COULD SCARCELY BE PREVENTED FROM THROWING STONES B2: Now try: M. Antonius numquam sibi temperat quin nimis vini bibat. MARK ANTONY NEVER RESTRAINS HIMSELF FROM DRINKING TOO MUCH WINE

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TU6: “Vamp”, “vanguard”, “vantage”, and “advance” are all derived from what two Latin prepositions? AB and ANTE B1: “Travail” and “travel” are both derived from what two Latin words, with what meanings? TRES, THREE and PALUS, STAKE B2: “Oboe” and “haughty” are both derived from what Latin adjective, with what meaning? ALTUS, HIGH

TU7: Differentiate in meaning between amissus and amussis. LOST and STRAIGHT EDGE or RULER B1: Differentiate in meaning between cornu and cornix. HORN and CROW B2: Differentiate in meaning between both forms of pecus. PECUDIS (F.), SHEEP and PECORIS (N.), HERD

TU8: Identify the rhetorical device in this line, taken from Book 4 of Vergil’s Aeneid: quid bella Tyro surgentia dicam germanique minas? PRAETERITIO B1: Identify the rhetorical device in this phrase, taken from Book 1 of Vergil’s Aeneid: submersis obruit puppis. PROLEPSIS B2: Identify the rhetorical device in this couplet, taken from Book 1 of Ovid’s Amores: sic fera Threicii ceciderunt agmina Rhesi, et dominum capti deseruistis equi. APOSTROPHE (addressee not present)

TU9: What man, who was co-Praetorian Prefect with Tigellinus, revolted against Nero, then broke with Galba, and finally tried to become emperor himself? NYMPHIDIUS SABINUS B1: Nymphidius Sabinus was claiming to be an illegitimate son of what Roman emperor? CALIGULA B2: What freedman, whom Nero supposedly married, did Nymphidius Sabinus also marry? SPORUS

TU10: Listen carefully to the following passage, taken from Book IV of Livy, about Romulus and Remus, which I will read twice, and answer in Latin the question that follows: Ita geniti itaque educati, cum primum adolevit aetas, nec in stabulis nec ad pecora segnes venando peragrare saltus. Hinc robore corporibus animisque sumpto iam non feras tantum subsistere sed in latrones praeda onustos impetus facere pastoribusque rapta dividere et cum his crescente in dies grege iuvenum seria ac iocos celebrare. The question: Quas gemini subsisterunt? FERAS B1: Ubi gemini erraverunt? SEGNES (PERAGRAVERUNT) B2: Quo gemini rapuerunt? PASTORIBUS

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TU11: What author, born at Aeclanum, presented his work to Marcus Vincius upon his consulate in 30 B.C. and offers profuse praise of Tiberius? VELLEIUS PATERCULUS B1: Used a source by Pliny, Gellius, Lactantius, and others, what author wrote the Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium in 9 books? VALERIUS MAXIMUS B2: What historian wrote a 10-book Historiae Alexandri Magni, sometime between the age of Augustus and Theodosius? CURTIUS RUFUS

TU12: What emperor renounced the title Pontifex Maximus and removed the Altar of Victory from the Senate House in Rome? GRATIAN B1: What commander in Gaul revolted against Gratian, killed him, and was accepted by Theodosius because he couldn’t spare the forces to fight him? MAGNUS MAXIMUS B2: What Frankish Master of Soldiers set up Eugenius as a puppet emperor and fought against Theodosius? ARBOGAST

TU13: What man, who was later buried “where blow met with blow and woe was laid upon woe,” bit off one of his fingers in madness and thus frightened his off? ORESTES B1: What Spartan dignitary eventually figured out that those cryptic words meant a bellows? LICHAS B2: In what kingdom was Orestes buried? TEGEA

TU14: Using an impersonal, say in Latin: The emperor arrived at the public show. AB IMPERATORE AD MUNERA/LUDOS PERVENTUM EST B1: Using an impersonal, say in Latin: Was it agreeable to Claudius to become emperor? LIBEBATNE CLAUDIO IMPERATOR FIERI B2: Using an impersonal, say in Latin: Women were not allowed to be emperors. FEMINIS NON LICEBAT IMPERATORIBUS ESSE

TU15: Identify the case and use of the first noun in the following sentence: Partī cīvium celeriter cōnsulunt. DATIVE, W/ VERB B1: Identify the case and use of the first noun in the following sentence: appetēns glōriae mīlitāris Iugurtha erat. GENITIVE, W/ ADJ. B2: What is the case and use of the first word in the phrase macte virtute? VOCATIVE, DIRECT ADDRESS

TU16: What non-fiction book and now movie might the Romans have known as Figurae Caecae? HIDDEN FIGURES B1: What pamphlet, recently released by Yale professor Tim Synder, could be rendered as De Dominato? ON TYRANNY

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B2: What Agatha Cristie novel, among the ten highest selling books of all time, could be rendered as Et Tum Erant Nulli? AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

TU17: The uncle of Scipio Africanus, what Roman general led the Roman forces in Spain during the Second Punic War? GNAEUS SCIPIO/SCIPIO CALVUS B1: At what battle of 217 BC did Scipio’s ships, though outnumbered, smash Punic sea-power on the Spanish cost? EBRO RIVER B2: At what battle of 211 BC was Gnaeus Scipio killed by the Carthaginians under Hasdrubal? UPPER BAETIS

TU18: On his way to Nemea, Heracles spent a night at the home of what day laborer, who agreed to sacrifice to Zeus the Savior if Heracles returned within thirty days? MOLORCHUS B1: On his way to the Alcyonian Lake, Dionysus agreed to lie with what young man where he returned from , but found him dead on his return? PROSYMNUS/POLYMNUS/HYPOLIPMUS B2: How did Dionysus discharge his debt to Prosymnus? WHITTLED A PENIS FOR HIM (OUT OF FIG)

TU19: Noted by Cicero for his ubertas, what Asianic orator, a relative of Scipio Aemilianus, was considered the “first classic” of Roman oratory? GAIUS GRACCHUS B1: What “agreeably calm style,” which he contrasts with gravitas, did Caesar attribute to Laelius? LENITAS B2: What friend of Catullus and future assassin of Caesar was a friend of Catullus, rival of Cicero, and the biggest figure Attic oratory? LICINIUS CALVUS

TU20: Which of the following Latin words, if any, does not belong because of its part of speech: coxo (lame person), petro (bumpkin), corbulo, decalcio (take off shoes)? DECALCIO B1: What does the Latin noun corbulo mean? PORTER B2: Which of the following Latin word, is any, does not belong because of its part of speech: tuto, consulto, aeterno, primo. ALL ADVERBS