Funerary Inscriptions
The abbreviation F. following a Roman's name on a funerary inscription refers to what?
Filius, son, implying the next name is the father's name.
This famous Roman amphitheater, inaugurated in 80 CE, hosted the most spectacular gladiator games.
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
This famous orator and consul exposed the conspiracy with a series of speeches to the Senate.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In this verse (1.135), Ovid describes how lovers should sit next to women at this famous Roman venue.
Circus Maximus.
Provide the number, tense, person, voice, and mood of the following verb:
appropinquābamus
First person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative
What can be inferred about the status of a person buried under a monument with only one name?
They were a slave.
The retiarius, who fought with net, also fought with which combination ranged-melee weapon.
Trident.
Cicero calls Catiline the "scelus" and "pestis" of the Republic, which translate to these two English words.
Answers may vary.
Ovid suggests the races give men a perfect excuse to do this kind of physical gesture.
Sit close, touch her lap, or adjust her cushion.
Provide the number, gender, person, voice, and mood of the following verb:
tenuerunt
Third person, plural, perfect, active, indicative
In addition to the triparted Roman name and familial relations, what other biographical information might be included on a Roman funerary inscription?
Voting block, profession, age, and constructor of the monument.
How would a gladiatrix differ from a gladiator?
In gender.
Though initially hailed as a hero, Cicero was later exiled in 58 BCE for this charge related to the conspiracy’s aftermath.
Executing Roman citizens without trial.
Knee.
Provide the number, gender, person, voice, and mood of the following verb:
amem
This biographical information usually appeared after the nomen and before the cognomen.
The voting block.
Armed similarly to the Thraex, this lesser-known gladiator wore fish-shaped helmet crests and often paired off against a retiarius.
Murmillo.
Julius Caesar.
Ovid suggests cheering intensely during this portion of the pompa.
The procession of the statue of Venus.
Provide the number, gender, person, voice, and mood of the following verb:
auditae estis
Second person, plural, perfect, passive, indicative
What is the meaning of the abbreviation D.M.
Dis manibus, 'to the spirits of the dead.'
This gladiator, inspired by warriors from Thrace, carried a curved sword called a sica and a small round shield.
Thraex.
The first speech against Catiline began with this famous Latin phrase.
“Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?”
This political figure, who began regulating the seating arrangements at public events, is widely believed to have exiled Ovid partly because the controversial Ars Amatoria.
Augustus Octavianus
Provide the number, gender, person, voice, and mood of the following verb:
videretur
Third person, singular, imperfect, passive, subjunctive