Conte Part 1

Marcus Cornelius Cethegus

According to Cicero, what man, consul in 204 BC, is the first person whose eloquence is securely attested?

Cato the Elder

What man, whose rhetorical opponent was Servius Sulpicius Galba, was praised by Cicero for the vehemence of his "actio."

Quintus Fabius Pictor

What man fought against the Insubrian Gauls (225-222 BC) and wrote Annales in Greek that extended from the foundation of Rome to the end of the 2nd Punic War, though he was criticized by Polybius for being too biased towards the Romans?

The Oracle of Delphi

Discussed in books 22 and 23 of ab urbe condita, where was Fabius Pictor dispatched by the Senate after the Roman defeat at Cannae?

Lucius Cincius Alimentus

What man was taken prisoner in the 2nd Punic War, perhaps allowing him to know Hannibal personally, and wrote an Annales in Greek

210 BC

In what year was Lucius Cincius Alimentus praetor?

Gaius Acilius

Who was the interpreter for the assembly of Greek philosophers who came to Rome in 155 BC? (the Academic Carneades, the Stoic Diogenes, and the Peripatetic Critolaus)

Aulus Postumius Albinus

What consul of 151 BC apologized for linguistic imperfections in the preface of his writing because he wrote in Greek, a language not his own, and was thus mocked by Cato.

Thebes

According to Polybius, where did Aulus Postumus Albinus retreat to while a battle was going on in Phocis, later writing about the battle in Phocis though he had not been present?

Aulus Postumius Albinus

What man, who was thrown into prison for conducting levies with too much severity, both was sent as an ambassador in 153 BC to make peace between Attalus and Prusias and was the legate of Lucius Mummius, accompanying him to Grece in 146 BC.

The Library of Perseus

What significant possession of Perseus did Aemilius Paullus take with himself back to Rome?

Carneades

Which member of the Greek assembly of 155 BC insinuated, before a large Roman audience, that the "just" dominion of Rome over other people was actually maintained by violence and plunder, thus causing the assembly to quickly be sent back to Greece.

Panaetius the Stoic

What member of the Scipionic Circle wrote "On Duty", the principle sourced used by Cicero in his work of the same name?

Panaetius, Gaius Laelius, Gaius Lucilius, and Terrence

What men did the Scipionic Circle consist of?

239 BC

What year saw the birth of Ennius in Rudiae, a small city near Lecce in the region that the Romans called Calabria (modern Apulia)

semi-graecus

What name is given by Suetonius to Ennius?

Cato the Elder

According to tradition, what man brought Ennius to Rome in 204 BC, having made his acquaintance in Sardinia while a quaestor in Sicily and Africa?

Fulvius Nobilior

What general did Ennius accompany to Greece, tasked with depicting his campaign in verses which culminated in the Roman victory at Ambracia (189 BC)?

169 BC, Ludi Apollinares

In what year during what event did Quintus Ennius die of gout?

Thyestes

What tragedy did Ennius produce directly before his death in 169 BC?

Caupuncula (The Inkeeper's Wife) and Pancratiastes (The Wrestler)

What are the two securely attested fabulae palliatae of Ennius?

Hedyphagetica (Eating Well)

What work of Ennius was a didactic poem on gastronomy, likely predating his Annales, that was inspired by a brief Greek poem by Archestratus of Gela and was the first attested Latin poem in hexameters?

Quintus Ennius

What author was associated with the quote: "Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I fly, living through the mouths of men." - found in Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes

Sota

What work of Ennius was named for the creator of its unique verse, Sotades of Maronea?

Scipio

What work of Ennius celebrates a certain man's victory at Zama?

Euhemerus

What work of Ennius presented a theological doctrine based on the ideas of a Greek philosopher who argued that the belief in the gods originated from the heroes of old that were eventually regarded as deities due to their valor, bravery, or cultural impact?

Epicharmus

What work of Ennius was inspired by the philosophical hypotheses developed by a Sicilian poet who he describes as having met in a dream allowing the poet to reveal the nature of the gods and the physics of the universe.

Protrepticus

What work of Ennius drew on a treatise from Aristotle and was likely an exhortation to study philosophy?

Quintus Ennius

Who is ranked last on the canon of comic poets by Volcacius Sedigitus?

Ambracia

What fabula praetexta of Ennius was likely a celebratory poem of Fulvius Nobilior's campaigns against the Aetolians?

15 books, ending with the triumph of Fulvius Nobilior over the Aetolians in book 15

The 18 book Annales of Ennius was originally planned to only be what number of books ending with what event?

Homer

What Greek poet did Ennius believe he was a reincarnation of?

The Muses

In a poem in book 7 of the Annales, what group is given citizenship in Rome?

Quintus Ennius

Who invented the genitive "-oeo" and shorted the accusative of domus to "do" as well as created words such as taratantara to reproduce the sound of a bugle.

Tusculum (near modern Frascati), 234 BC

At what location in what year was Cato the Elder born?

Lex Oppia (215 BC)

What law, which had been established in 215 BC, limited the expenditures of women from wealthy families and was defended by Cato during his consulship?

195 BC

In what year was Cato the Elder consul with Valerius Flaccus?

Cato the Elder

Who fought as a military tribune under Acilius Glabrio in 191 BC at Thermopylae.

184 BC

In what year was Cato censor along with Valerius Flaccus?

Lex Orchia

In 181 BC, what law did Cato oppose the revoking of?

Lex Voconia

In 169 BC, what law, which limited women's rights of inheritance, did Cato support?

Oratio pro Rhodensibus

What speech did Cato give in 167 BC in which he opposed the war with Rhodes?

Apophthegmata

What work of Cato was a collect of memorable sayings and anecdotes?

De Agri Cultura

What work of Cato concerning agriculture is the earliest Latin prose text that has come down to us in its entirety?

Origines (7 books)

What work of Cato was the first historiographic work in Latin and covered the founding of Rome to the praetorship of Servius Sulpicius Galba in 152 BC?

Quintus Caedicius

What obscure figure in Roman history does Cato dedicate a certain amount of space to in his Origines in order to symbolize the collective heroism of the Roman people?

Carmen de Moribus

What work of Cato, likely written in rhythmic prose, probably concerned customs?

Praecepta ad Filium

What work of Cato was a dictionary of various subjects addressed to him son and contained the famous sayings "rem tene, verba sequentur" and "vir bonus peritus dicendi est"

Brundisium

Where was Marcus Pacuvius, a nephew of Ennius, born in 220 BC?

Painting

Pacuvius was one of the first Roman men of rank to partake in what hobby?

Tarentum

Where did Pacuvius die in 130 BC?

Armorum Iudicium

In what work of Pacuvius do Ajax and Ulysses compete over the arms of Achilles?

Chryses

In what work of Pacuvius do Orestes and Pylades hold a contest to determine which would show greater nobility in the face of death?

Dulorestes

In what work of Pacuvius does Orestes disguise himself as a slave to avenge Agamemnon more easily?

Iliona

In what work of Pacuvius does the eldest daughter of Priam exchange her brother Polydorus with her son by Polymestor, Diphilus?

Niptra (The Bath)

In what work of Pacuvius does Telegonus mortally wound Ulysses before recognizing him?

Pallus

What praetexta of Pacuvius celebrates the victory of Aemilius Paullus as Pydna?

Pacuvius's

Whose works consist of Atalanta, Medus, Pentheus, Periboea, Teucer and Antiope?

Lucilius

Who heavily criticized the style of Pacuvius and Accius?

Cicero

Who judged Pacuvius as the greatest of the Latin tragedians?

Pisaurum (Pesaro)

Where was Accius born in 170 BC to freedmen parents?

Pergamum

To what city did Accius make an educational trip to in 135 BC?

Accius

Who desired for a large statue of himself to be erected in the collegium poetarum?

Accius

Who is the most prolific writer of Latin tragedy?

Bacchae

What work of Accius translates to "The Bacchants"? A play of Euripides of the same name was performed next to the severed head of Crassus.

Epinausimache

What work of Accius translates as "The Battle on the Ships"?

Troades

What work of Accius translates as "The Trojan Women"?

Brutus

What praetexta of Accius told the story of a man leading the revolt against the tyrannical Tarquins?

Decius

What praetexta of Accius told the story of the battle of Sentinum?

Accius's

Whose works were Armorum Iudicium, Astynax, Atreus, Hecuba, Medea, Melanippus, Myrmidones, Philocteta, Phoenissae, Telephus, Tereus, Aeneadae, and Sotadicorum Liber?

Nyctegresia

What work of Accius translates to "The Night Watch"?

De Antiquitate Litterarum

What first work of Varro was dedicated to Accius?

Didascalia

What work of Accius, in which he likely suggested a series of spelling reforms based on the principles of analogy, consisted of at least 9 books in a mixture of prose and verse like Varro's Menippean Satires?

27

How many books were in Accius's Annales, which more closely resembled Ovid's Fasti than Ennius's Annales?

Pragmatica

What work of Accius, in at least two books, likely dealt with literary critical questions and has a single preserved trochaic sepentarius?

Parerga

What work of Accius in iambic senarii is probably a georgic inspired by Hesiod's Erga?

Praxidicus

What work of Accius, referred to by Pliny the Elder, also likely dealt with agriculture?

Aulus Furius Antias

What man wrote an Annales where he appears to have sung about the Cimbri?

Volusius

Catullus mocked the Annales of what man as "cacata charta"?

Hositus

What contemporary of Accius wrote a Bellum Histricum which may celebrate the victory of Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus over the Illyrians?

Furius Alpinus

What man did Horace mock for his epic the Ethiopid?

Oduisa

What work was recast in hexameters after the Annales of Ennius?

102 BC; 46 years old

In what year did Lucilius die

46 years

At what age did Lucilius die according to Jerome?

Suessa Aurunca

Where was Lucilius born?

30

How many books of Saturae are attributed to Lucilius?

Lucilius

Who worked in the headquarters of Scipio Aemilianus during the siege of Numantia?

Lucilius

Who calls his compositions "poemata" or "ludus ac sermones" (joking chats)?

Schedia (Improvisations)

What is the likely Greek original title of Lucilius's work?

Quintilian

Who said "satura quidem tota nostra est" meaning satire is a completely Roman genre?

Lentulus Lupus

In the first book of Lucilius's satires, a Concilium Deorum attacks what person, disliked by the Scipios, who the gods decide to have die of indigestion?

Journey to Sicily

What is the subject of Lucilius's third book of satires?

Granius

In Book 30 of his satires, Lucilius tells of a banquet organized by what man, the literary ancestor of the more famous Nasidienus and Trimalchio?

Collyra

Who was Lucilius's mistress?

Book 16

What book of Lucilius's satires were dedicated to his mistress?

Lucilius

Who said "ex praecordiis ecfero versum" or "from my heart, I bring forth my poetry"?

Gaius Gracchus

Cicero notes the ubertas of what man, who he praises in his Brutus as "an orator whom the young should read before any other"?

Scipio Aemilianus

In whose oratory does Cicero recognized a "gravitas" (solemnity) that contrasts with the "lenitas" (agreeably calm style) of Laelius?

Plotius Gallus

In 92 BC, Crassus held the censorship with Domitius Ahenobarbus when they decided to close the school of rhetoric in Rome founded by what man and client of Marius?

Rhetorica ad Herennium

What textbook of unknown origin written in the 80s BC and attributed to Cicero in the Middle Ages manifests Gracchan and Marian tendencies and reflects the teachings of Plotius Gallus's school?