Translating and Grammar
The phrase deus magnus in accusative singular.
DEUM MAGNUM
The Latin adjective, from which we derive “novice”?
NOVUS/A/UM = NEW
The emperor whose reign included a disaster at Teutoburg Forest, the annexation of Egypt as a province, and a victory at Actium that allowed him to reign as Rome’s first emperor?
AUGUSTUS / OCTAVIAN // (GAIUS) OCTAVIUS
The Greek god who had the epithet Psychopompos, since he guided the souls of the dead down to Hades, though he was better known as the protector of thieves and travelers?
HERMES
The three-word Latin version of the quote attributed to Julius Caesar as his final words, even though it is not actually found in classical literature?
ET TŪ BRŪTE
This tense in Latin, which is used to convey an ongoing action in the past and literally means “incomplete,” appears in the sentence “ad fōrum ambulābāmus”?
IMPERFECT
The Latin word for the animal that we derive the words “bugle,” “bovine,” and “beefcake”?
BOVIS (COW)
The pharaoh that led the Egyptian forces that attempted to aid Mark Antony at Actium?
CLEOPATRA (VII)
This son of Pasiphaë received seven boys and seven girls from Athens as food after he was hidden away in the Labyrinth due to being half-man, half-bull?
MINOTAUR / ASTERIUS / ASTERION
The translation of the motto of Oklahoma, labor omnia vincit.
LABOR / WORK CONQUERS ALL THINGS
The accusative for the Latin phrase meaning “seventh ship.”
SEPTIMAM NAVEM
Which of the following nouns, if any, does not belong due to meaning: mare, cornū, flumen, aqua.
CORNU
This king of Rome, who first drained the Forum according to Livy, abandoned his original name, Lucumo, when he immigrated from an Etruscan city with Tanaquil and succeeded Ancus Marcius?
(LUCIUS) TARQUINIUS PRISCUS
This Roman goddess exclaimed “The power of that tongue of yours will be limited; and most brief will be the use of your voice” when she realized Echo was stopping her from catching her husband Jupiter?
JUNO
This third-declension Latin noun completes the phrase “in vīnō [blank]” and serves as the one-word motto of Harvard University?
VERITAS
The state mottoes and phrases “audēmus iūra nostra dēfendere,” “esse quam vidērī,” and “errāre hūmānum est” all contain this mood of Latin verb?
INFINITIVE
This Latin noun, derived from two other Latin words, etymologically means “bridge-maker”, but is more usually translated “priest”?
PONTIFEX
Since he was killed by a mob led by Scipio Nasica in 133 B.C., this man left the task of land reformation to his younger brother, Gaius Gracchus?
TIBERIUS GRACCHUS
This muse, who had the tutelage of kings, was the mother of Orpheus and considered the leader of the Muses because she presided over epic poetry?
CALLIOPE
The translation of the Latin motto of Johns Hopkins University, “veritās vōs liberābit.”
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE