Latin Grammar
we saw a wall 9 feet high (A wall of 9 feet)
murum novem pedes / murum novem pedum / murum novem pedis
What is "murum novem pedum" - Genitive of measure?
Romans built the Pantheon and gave it its name from the Greek word "pas/pan" meaning____ and theo - gods.
( one / all / angry / nature )
What is "all"?
The name of the peninsula where Sparta is located.
(Attica / Ithaca / Sardinia / Peloponnese)
What is the Peloponnese?
Before Jupiter floods the earth, he transforms Lycaon into this animal.
( bird / sheep / fish / wolf )
What is a wolf?
Roman love poet who dedicated his works to Cornelius Nepos
(Cinna / Anser / Vitruvius / Catullus )
"They were being watched" (spectant / spectantur / spectabantur)
What is "spectabantur"?
Gamete, bigamy, and monogamous all share a root word that means this.
( sleep / marriage / death / doubling)
What is marriage? (gamos)
The Spartan secret police.
(Agoge / Laconia / Helotia / Crypteia )
What is the Crypteia?
the 9 Pierides were changed into birds after foolishly challenging which these 9 famous goddesses of the arts to a contest.
(muses / graces / fates / furies )
Who were the muses?
Atticus is known for writing
( essays / poems / history / letters)
What are letters? (to Cicero and Cicero wrote to him!)
"secutus est" (he followed, he was followed, he is following)
What is "he followed"?
Aristocracy, autocrat, and bureaucrat all share a root with a word meaning this.
( to fight / to be the best / to rule / to organize)
What is "to rule"? (krateo)
The craftsmen who literally "dwelt around" Sparta.
(perioeci / helots / Spartiatai / Laconians )
Who were the perioeci?
This founder of Thebes and sower of the dragon's teeth was a brother of Europa.
( Pentheus / Antenor / Cadmus / Meleager )
Who was Cadmus?
Author of the Bellum Jugurthinum and the Bellum Catalinum
(Caesar / Sallust / Catullus / Cinna)
Who was Sallust?
fruimur _______ (dulcia, dulcibus, dulce)
What is "dulcibus"? (fruor is one of the deponents that take an ablative)
the "logy" at the end of lots of sciences has this meaning.
(force / book / reason / collection )
what is word/reason? (logos)
Name of the lawgiver who gave Sparta their harsh constitution
(Solon / Lycurgus / Draco / Antigonus )
Who was Lycurgus?
The king of Troy who denied payment to Neptune and was punished by having Troy flooded.
(Orthus / Pentheus / Lycomedes / Laomedon / Priam )
Who was Laomedon?
Friend of Catullus, Cicero, and Atticus who wrote biographies of famous men.
(Caesar / Sallust / Varro Reatinus / Cornelius Nepos
Who was Cornelius Nepos?
urbe condita, Romulus Remum interfecit.
(with the founding city / while founding the city / having founded the city)
What is "having founded the city" (Ablative Absolute - "with the city having been founded" - the best translation preserves the tense)
The Greek verb tithemi has a number of derivatives: anathema, antithesis, apothecary, epithet, hypothesis, synthetic, theme, thesis, and synthesis. Its meaning is ___.
(to find / to escape / to think / to put )
What is to put/place?
This battle in 371 BC ended Spartan military dominance.
(Thermopylae / Leuctra / Sphacteria / Marathon)
What is Leuctra?
Changed into a monster by Circe after a sea god who loves her rejects Circe's advances.
(Lyssa / Thera / Scylla / Themis / Medusa )
Who is Scylla?
Writer of mimes and sententiae (short wise sayings)
(Cornelius Nepos / Cicero / Atticus / Publius Syrus )
Who was Publius Syrus?