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| Gwinnett County (Spring) Certamen Championship
Upper Round TU1: Welcome to spring GCCC (even though it is technically winter). Roman poets often refer to the seasons in their writings. Give the Latin words for two of the four seasons. ver, aetas, autumnus, hiems B1: Now give the words for the other two seasons: B2: Describe how Ovid in the Metamorphoses explains how the seasons came about:
B1: Now give the formal name for a trial: cognition B2: And now the term used for a conviction: damnation
B1: The Erinyes were later renamed by Athena the Eumenides (kindly ones) for their acquiescence to allow the Athenians to decide Orestes’ guilt or innocence. Who is the author of the play that bears the euphemistic name of these deities? Aeschylus B2: Aeschylus is the author of the only surviving trilogy of which the Eumenides is the final play. What is the trilogy commonly called? The Oresteia
B1: What is the difference between a gerund and a gerundive? gerund - verbal noun / doesn’t modify anything else; gerundive - verbal adjective / modifies a noun, etc. B2: Using a gerund, say in Latin: a love of reading books. amor libros legendi TU5: What Roman biographer had a tendency to scandalize the private lives of the emperors in his de vita Caesarum? (C.) Suetonius (Tranquillius) B1: With the life of which emperor did Suetonius concludes his Lives? Domitian B2: Which of Suetonius’ works were biographies of illustrious writers categorized by genre? de viris illustribus / on the Lives of Illustrious Men
B2: The whole poem reads: Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?/ Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. What are the principal parts and meaning of the verb from which fieri is derived? fio, fieri, factus sum - be made, become, happen TU8: Translate “leader” in the following sentence: He knew that the leader would come to Rome. Ducem B1: From the same sentence, translate “would come.” venturum esse B2: Make “venturum esse” a perfect infinitive. venisse TU9: What Shakespearean tragedy would the Romans have called “Labor amoris amissus?” Love’s Labor Lost B1: What classic would this be? “ Fortis novus orbis terrarum” Brave New World B2: How about this one? “Murum et hominum” Of Mice and Men TU10: What literary device is illustrated in this line from Ovid? Sonuerunt cymbala toto litore et attonita tympana pulsa manu. onomatopoesia / consonance B1: What literary device is defined as "the use of the conjunction to add each member in a series"? Example: et color et Theseus et vox. polysyndeton B2: What literary device is defined as "the omission of the conjunction in a series"? asyndeton THE SCORE AFTER TEN QUESTIONS IS: TU11: Where would you be if you were floating down the river Phlegethon? The underworld B1: What was the river of forgetfulness in Hades? Lethe B2: What river were souls who had not received proper burial forbidden to cross? Styx TU12: In Latin, instruct Marcus to speak! Marce, dic B1: Now instruct Cornelius to do it! Corneli, fac B2: Now tell Marcella to lead! Marcella, duc TU13: What rhetorical device is evident in the sentence, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”? alliteration / consonance B1: The repetition of the “p” sound could indicate what other rhetorical device? consonance / alliteration B2: What is the repetition of vowel sounds known as? assonance TU14: Who received the agnomen “Africanus” for his defeat of Hannibal? (Publius Cornelius) Scipio B1: From what island in the Mediterranean did Scipio invade Africa? Sicily B2: In what battle did Scipio defeat the Carthaginian general Hannibal? Zama THE SCORE BEFORE THE FINAL QUESTION IS… TU15: When Julius Caesar was given a perpetual dictatorship in February of 44 B.C. he probably expected that he would hold this office for years to come. How long did he actually hold it? About one month B1: When Julius Caesar had functioned as dictator in 48 and 47 B.C., he sent his magister equitum to calm things down in Italy. This man is the one we usually think of as Caesar's right hand and was the Lupercus who offered Caesar the diadem in 44 B.C. Who was he? Marcus Antonius / Marc Antony B2: A different man became a magister equitum in 44 B.C., while Antony was appointed flamen. The two men were later mortal enemies. Who was this magister equitum? Octavian |