VSF 22-23

define metamorphosis

a change of form

what does "carmen et error" mean?

a poem and a mistake

what did ovid write and what happened to him?

the roman writer ovid wrote a 15-book .ong metamorphosis: stories of mythological transformations before being exiled by the Emperor Augustus (27 BC-14 AD)

derivatives of pan

panthm, pangaea, panthalassa, pantheism, pandemic, panacea, panorama, panhellic

what does "quot homines, tot sententiae" and who said it?

Cicero, there are as many opinions as people

what play did shakespeare feature in a midsummer night's dream?

pyramus & thisbe

what does volo, velle mean?

to wish/want

what does volo, volare mean?

to fly

derivatives of volo, velle

voluntary, volition, malevolent

derivatives of volo, volare,

volleyball, volatile

what does "volens-nolens" mean?

wishing-not wishing (indecisive, wishy-washy)

write all relative pronouns (singular)?

qui, quae, quod, cuius, cui, quem, quam, quod, quo, qua, quo

write all relative pronouns (plural)?

qui, quae, quae, quorum, quarum, quorum, quibus, quos, quas, quae, quibus

UNUS NAUTA words + rule?

unus, nullus, uter, solus, neuter, alter, ullus, totus, alius (-ius & i)

what does ambi & amphi mean

both

what does infra dig stand for and mean

infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity

what was the ludi romani?

religious festival in ancient rome in honor of jupiter, started in 366 BC, consisted of a pompa, chariot + footrace, and plays (eventually)

what does pugno pugnare mean

to fight

what does panem et circenses mean and who said it

juvenal, bread and circus (make the people happy but take away their rights)

Dii inferi, vobis commendo, si quidquam sanctitatis habetis trado

Gods of the underworld I commend to you, if you have anything holy (power) I hand over (name)

what does cf. stand for

confer - to compare

rx meaning

recipe (meaning to take, rekipay)

ca.

circa, around

auc

ab urbe condita (753 BC = year 1)

who did the romans learn the practice of omen taking from

the etruscans

who were the haruspices?

fortune telling by entrails

who were the augures?

fortune telling by irds

fortune tellers staff

lituus

semper eadem?

motto of queen elizabeth ca. 1580, always the same

liberalia

in honor of liber (bacchus), march, boys coming of age

lupercalia

february fertility festival

saturnalia

december harvest festival

sponsalia

betrothal ceremony

nefarious

evil, shady, comes from nefas meaning unspeakably bad

horribile visu!

horrible to see!

what was the lex gabinia

gave pompey the great the power to eradicate pirates in the eastern mediterannean, 62 BC

what was the lex manilia

gave pompey power to fight mithridates VI of pontus in 66 BC

what does viscera mean? give 2 derivatives

entrails, visceral (gut reaction), eviscerate (disembowel, to criticize harshly)

uchicago motto and meaning?

crescat scientia, vita excolatur - let knowledge increase, let life be enriched

suovetaurilia

state sacrifice involving pig, sheep, and a bull

matrimony word etymology

mater + -mony (state of)

cum manu wedding?

with authority - the authority over the woman passed directly from father to husband

sine manu

without authority - the authority for the woman remained w/her own family, upon a divorce, her dowry & other property was returned to her

confarreatio

highest form of marriage, for patricians. eating wheat cake together

subliminal word breakdown

sub-under, liminal-limen, liminis, neuter, threshold (of your conscious thought)

Si qua voles apte nubere, nube pari

Ovid, If in any way you will wish to marry suitably marry an equal

coemptio

mock bridal auction

usus

common law marriage (more choice)

contubernium

slave marriage

eulogy

funeral speech of praise

memento mori

remember that you will die (future imperative, it should actually be Memento te Mori)

scissa veste

with the clothes having been torn

capillis solutis

with hair disheveled

pectus plangere

to beat the breast

what was the toga pulla/sordida?

men wore a gray toga of mourning meant to imitate the look of ashes (cineres) rubbed into the cloth

sarcophagus word breakdown

sarco-muscle/flesh (sarx), phagus-to eat, elaborately carved limestone coffin

DM(s)

Dis Manibus (Sacer), sacred to the deified shades of the dead

cenotaph

empty tomb, didn't have the actual body, would use a straw dummy

columbarium

graves provided by the wealthy for the poor (meaning: dove-pen, usually beehive shaped building wit many niches for urns)

conclamatio

shouting/crying together yelling the name of the deceased 3x (dead person will wake up in case they were just sleeping)

what is a laudatio

eulogy

inhumation word breakdown

in-in, humation-humus/humi, burial (humus is locative just like domus, rurus, it's feminine)

derivatives from humus, humi, f

humus, posthumously, humility, humiliation, exhume

s.t.t.l.

sit tibi terra levis - may the earth be light for you (sit is present subjunctive)

where were emperor trajan's ashes buried?

in a golden box in the base of his column (an exception, eventually was stolen)

pathos derivatives

pathogen, pathology, psychopath, sociopath, apathy, empathy, sympathy, compassion, pathetic (causing feelings), pathophysiology

De mortuis, nil nisi bonum [dic/dicite]

About the dead nothing except good (mortuis and bonum are neuter substantive)

pompa

elaborate funeral procession

imagines

masks of ancestors

rogis

cremation of the body

gubernatorial word breakdown

guberno-to govern (comes from the word "to steer a ship", note that the letters v and b are often interchangeable in latin) relating to a governor

suum cuique

to each his own

livvy's contributions to golden age history?

wrote the Ab Urbe Condita on early history

what books did caesar write and what were they about?

history, De Bello Gallica, De Bello Civili

famous writer of letters in the golden age?

Cicero (also speeches, philosophy)

who wrote the most famous epic during the golden age?

Vergil, the Aeneid

what did ovid write during the golden age?

metamorphoses et alia

what did catullus write during the golden age?

carmina (poems)

what did horace write during the golden age?

Odes et Epodus

parsimonious

careful with money/frugal (to spare - parco, parcere, peperci, parsus)

oderint dum metuant

let them hate provided that they fear, caligula

sal, salis derivatives

salt, saline, salami, salary, salad

si vis pacem, para bellum

if you want peace, prepare for war

breviarium

written by eutropius

ampersand origins?

comes from Et, shorthand used by Tiro

cedant arma togae

wyoming state motto, 1st said by MTC, let the arms yield to the togas (diplomacy before fighting)

ignominous

disgraceful

dies atri

black day

lachrymose

tearful

ars gratia artis

art for the sake of art (MGM motto)

pharsalus

caesar defeats pompey, pompey flees to egypt, head & ring sent back to caesar, 48 BC

philippi

marc antony & octavian, augustus defeat brutus and cassius, 42 BC

actium

octavian defeats antony & cleopatra, 31 BC, flees battle, become the princeps/restorer of the republic

novus derivatives

noveice, novel, supernova, nouvea riche

nihil sub sole novum

from the bible, book of eucleides. nothing new under the sun

death of pompey?

pompey fled to egypt after the battle of pharsalus, seeking asylum from ptolemy the 13th, ptolemy sent pompey’s head & rin to caesar, caesar was very sad and then helped cleopatra take the throne

comet

greek aster kometes, long haired star

omnibus bill

something for everyone, on vote on one bill that’s acc a bunch of bills

misogyny

hatred of women

invidens privata deduci superbo/non humilis mulier triumpho

hating to be led as a private woman, a not humble woman in a proud triumph