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Et Cetera
100

Prima luce socii in silvam venatum ibunt.

Given that venor, venari, venatus sum means "to hunt", what is the best translation for venatum?

to hunt
100

Augustus took the title princeps which means

first citizen
100
What king o Mycenae was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra after he returned victorious from the Trojan War?
Agamemnon
100
What is the collective term for the first five Roman emperors?
Julio-Claudian
100

A ferrous compound contains what metal?

iron
200

Cedamus Phoebo et meliora sequamur. 

meliora means

better things
200
What is the Latin word that captures the idea of loyalty to gods, country, and family?
pietas
200
What were Baucis and Philemon turned into?
trees
200
Of what philosophy was Marcus Aurelius a student?
Stoicism
200
Zoologists at a formicary are studying what specimens?
ants
300

Pater epistulam de die natali filioli scripsit.

The best translation for the diminutive filioli is

little son
300
Ubinam gentium sunt Bithynia, Pontus, et Phrygia?


in Asia Minore
300
What very beautiful girl was assigned four tasks by Venus, and was married to Cupid?
Psyche
300
Who wrote to Tacitus about his uncle who died as a result of smoke inhalation during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius?
Pliny the Younger
300
What three-word Latin legal term means "the thing speaks for itself"?
res ipsa loquitur
400

puellae malum puerum oderunt.  The best translation for oderunt is...

they hate
400
In what genre did both Juvenal and Martial write?
satire
400
Whose sculpture came to life and married him?
Pygmalion
400
Who were the main combatants during the Battle of Philippi?
Caesar and Pompey
400
What is the correct metrical pattern of the first four feet of this line?


arma virumque cano Troiae qui primus ab oris

dactyl-dactyl-spondee-spondee
500

Gladiator leoni dixit, "Nunc morere!"  The form of morere is

imperative
500
What philosophy is reflected in the "Carpe diem" theme of many poems by Horace?
Epicureanism
500
What Greek warrior and son of Tydeus killed countless Trojans during the Trojan War?
Diomedes
500
Which of the Five Good Emperors built a protective wall in Britain?
Hadrian
500

Translate the Latin idiom in animo habere.

to intend
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