1TU . Credited with inventing fabulae praetextae, this author’s magnum opus was the Bellum Punicum. Answer: (GNAEUS) NAEVIUS B1. How many books are in the Bellum Punicum? Answer: SEVEN B2. Naevius is said to have died in exile. Where? Answer: UTICA 2TU . Differentiate in meaning between pateo and patior Answer: PATEO = EXTEND, BE OPEN; PATIOR = ALLOW, PERMIT, SUFFER B1. Differentiate in meaning between denuntio and renuntio Answer: DENUNTIO = DENOUNCE, WARN, RENUNTIO = ANNOUNCE, REPORT B2. Differentiate in meaning between dolus and decus Answer: DOLUS = DECEIT, TRICKERY, DECUS = GRACE, HONOR 3TU . This daughter of Menoeceus married and became queen of Thebes. Her husband Laius made her expose their first born son because an oracle had warned him that the child would kill him. Who is the ill-fated queen? Answer: JOCASTA/EPICASTA B1. Sophocles has Jocasta commit suicide when she learns that she has married her son, but Euripides’ Phoenician Women it is another event that causes her death..What? Answer: HER SONS BY OEDIPUS KILL EACH OTHER B2. Who are the sons of Oedipus and Jocasta? Answer: ETEOCLES & POLYNEICES 4TU . What Roman commander brought an army to the straits of Messana to help the Mamertines in 264 BC? Answer: APPIUS CLAUDIUS CAUDEX B1. Which assembly had appointed Caudex to help the Mamertines? Answer: COMITIA CENTURIATA B2. What king of Syracuse did Caudex defeat? Answer: HIERO II 5TU . From what Latin root verb with what meaning is fallacy derived? Answer: FALLO, DECEIVE B1. From what Latin noun with what meaning is fascicle derived? Answer: FASCIS, BUNDLE B2. From what Latin root verb with what meaning is disfavor derived? Answer: FAVEO, FAVOR Regional Latin Forum 2016 Certamen Level Advanced Round 1 6TU . At what battle in 268 AD did the Romans decisively defeat the Goths Answer: NAISSUS (NIS/NISH) B1. What emperor had led the Romans in this signal victory? Answer GALLIENUS B2. Gallienus was forced to break off his pursuit of the Goths by a rebellion of a cavalry general in Italy. Who was this rebellious general? Answer: AUREOLUS 7TU . Change the noun adjective pair peior vis into the nominative plural Answer: PEIORES VIRES B1. Change peiores vires into the ablative singular Answer: PEIORE VI B2. Change peiore vi into the genitive plural Answer: PEIORUM VIRIUM 8TU . Nunc est bibendum- is a line from which poet’s work? Answer: HORACE B1. In what work of Horace does this line occur? Answer: ODES/CARMINA B2. What historical event does this line reference: Answer: DEATH OF CLEOPATRA 9TU . Translate this sentence into English Cicero hosti ut urbe relinqueret imperabat. Answer: CICERO WAS ORDERING/ORDERED THE ENEMY TO LEAVE THE CITY B1. What kind of ut clause is in that sentence? Answer: INDIRECT COMMAND B2. Translate: Cicero timet ut hostis urbem relinquat Answer: CICERO IS AFRAID THAT THE ENEMY WILL NOT LEAVE/IS NOT LEAVING. 10TU . Polydectes tricks Perseus into the quest for Medusa’s head by announcing that he intended to marry another woman from Pisa. What daughter of Oenomaus did Polydectes falsely say he in tended to marry ? Answer: HIPPODAMEIA B1. What does Polydectes say he needs for a bride price to marry Hippodameia? Answer: HORSES B2. In a totally unrelated matter, Danae had given Perseus another name. What was it? Answer: EURYMEDON