Frog Authors
What Greek uses frogs as characters many times in his fables?
Who is Aesop?
This is the Latin word for frog.
This daughter of two titans turned a group of unpleasant peasants into frogs.
Who is Leto / Latona?
I love frogs. This is the year in which Julius Caesar died.
What is 44 BC?
The Latin "nōlī verberāre mortuum equum" translates to the English idiom "don't beat a dead horse", while this alternative would be translated as "nōli verberāre mortuam rānam"
What is 'don't beat a dead frog'?
Frogs live by bodies of water. Sometimes, so do humans. This author mentioned living by Lake Sirmo in his Carmina.
Who is Catullus?
This word for branch sounds suspiciously similar to the Latin word for frog.
What is rāmus?
Because he respected frogs too much to desecrate them, this deity used the dead body of a turtle to create the first lyre.
Who is Mercury / Hermes?
Who is Hadrian?
As far as we know, the Romans did not eat frog legs. They did, however, eat this famous fermented fish sauce.
What is garum?
Who is Aristophanes?
Do you wanna see a picture of a frog eating a rat?
Yes
This man did not turn into a group, but did write Stoic philosophy while emperor.
Marcus Aurelius
This body of water, too large for a frog to swim across, was called Pontus Euxinus by the Greeks and Romans.
This Greek man studied frogs in his youth before switching to philosophy and tutoring Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
According to Pliny the Elder, the word rāna can refer specifically to a tree-frog. Give a Latin word meaning tree.
there are a lot of words for tree
Although he was not turned into a frog, this sea-god was once a person who transformed into a deity after jumping off a cliff.
Who is Palaemon?
Just like a frog swims, this girl swam across the Tiber to escape the military camp of Lars Porsenna.
Who is Cloelia?
Frogs.... wait, nevermind. This man was the third emperor of Rome.
What satirist pretends to be a haruspex looking at the entrails of frogs in one of his sixteen poems?
Who is Juvenal?
This is the Latin word meaning 'toad'.
What is būfō?
This deity is sometimes associated with frogs due to their licentiousness.
Who is Aphrodite?
Frogs do not have necks. What is the Latin word for neck?
This form of the verb scrībere can sound a lot like the word ribbit if you mispronounce it.