Roman History
Which Julio-Claudian emperor had no Julian blood?
Tiberius
For the sentence, “Lucius and Marcus, come here!”, translate “come.”
venite
During the Trojan War, which Trojan seer were the Greeks at last able to capture on Mount Ida? He later revealed four conditions that had to be met before Troy was captured.
Helenus
What group counted among its leaders Penthesilea and Hippolyte?
The Amazons
Make the phrase “the poor poet” genitive plural.
miserorum poetarum
Which Roman girl swam across the Tiber to escape from Porsenna?
Cloelia
Tell Lucius and Marcus "don't come"
nolite venire!
What Latin orator went to war under Pompeius Strabo in 89 BC and was a close friend of Titus Pomponius Atticus?
Cicero
According to Homer, which companion of Odysseus had a tragic fall off the roof of Circe’s stone house?
Elpenor
What would be shaken out of an object known as a fritillus?
dice
Which brave young Roman impressed Lars Porsenna by sticking his hand in a fire?
Mucius Scaevola
What use of the ablative is found in the following sentence: Hostibus superātīs, exercitus noster Romam revēnit.
Ablative absolute
What group of sisters shared an eye and a tooth among themselves and gave information to Perseus to help him along his quest?
The Graeae
Who sacrificed himself so that his father Nestor might live through the Trojan War?
Antilochus
At what location in ancient Rome would you have found the following: calx, mēta, spīna, carcerēs, aurīgae?
Circus Maximus
At which battle in 42 BC were the lead assassins of Julius Caesar, Cassius and Brutus, finally defeated?
Philippi
What use of the ablative is found in the following sentence: Noster exercitus multō melior quam hostium est.
Ablative of degree of difference
What work of Ovid begins with the lines, “In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora”?
Metamorphoses
What Titan, a son of the Oceanid Clymene, was the father of multiple groups of divinities including the Hyades, Hesperides, and Pleiades?
Atlas
Translate the word forum into Latin based on its use in the following sentence: “Throughout the hot, sweltering day, the very stink of the forum filled our nostrils.”
FORI
Who were the two victorious generals at the battle of Philippi?
Octavian and Antony
Translate the following sentence into Latin: “With Iulius as leader, the Gauls must be conquered easily
IULIŌ DUCE, GALLI VINCENDI SUNT FACILE
What is the full name of the author who left his great work, Historiae, unfinished, although it was intended to serve as a continuation of Sisenna’s Historiae?
Sallust
Who fled to Mt. Sipylus and became a weeping stone after boasting that she was greater than Leto due to her many children?
Niobe
Complete the following analogy: magnus : parvus :: anteā : _______.
POSTEA