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100
The Augustan and Ciceronian period both belong to this larger literary age.
What is the Golden Age?
100
A Roman man's given name, of which there were very few.
What is a praenomen?
100
Members of society who claimed ancestry from the "first families" of Rome.
What are the patricians?
100
This case is used for indirect objects.
What is the dative case?
100
Romans transported water by means of these structures.
What are aqueducts?
200
The mother of hundreds of languages, of which Latin is a member, spanning from India through western Europe.
What is Indo-European?
200
A second cognomen used to express some achievement during life.
What is an agnomen?
200
Overcrowded city apartments in Rome.
What are insulae?
200
The nominative and accusatives are the same in this gender.
What is neuter?
200
The letter that often marks neuter plurals.
What is "-a?"
300
Hopeless romantic poet whose work frequently mentioned one woman in particular.
Who is Catullus?
300
A libertus would often take the name of this person after he was freed.
What is a patron? OR, the person who freed them
300
Acting, crafting, and trading would have been appropriate careers for this group of people.
Who are the plebeians?
300
In Latin, the word for "they were being praised."
What is laudantur?
300
The name for pre-Civil War America.
What is the Antebellum period?
400
This author named Catiline as a traitor of the Republic.
Who is Cicero?
400
The phenomenon of giving a person a name based on paternal relationship; i.e., "Marcus, son of Lucius"
What is a filiation?
400
The dominant male in a Roman family.
What is the pater familias?
400
The appropriate relative pronoun in Latin for this sentence: "The boy whom you see is named Titus."
What is "quem?"
400
Mnemonic device for recalling the order of the noun/adjective cases:
What is "Never Go Down An Active Volcano?"
500
Seneca, Martial, Pliny the Younger, and Tacitus were all members of this Roman literary age.
What is the Silver Age?
500
M. AGRIPPA L F COS TERTIUM FECIT translation.
What is "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, consul for the third time, made [this]?"
500
A political strategy to appease the plebeians and prevent them from uprising against the patricians, translated into Latin.
What is "panem et circenses?"
500
The English translation of this sentence: "Poeta cuius epistula legebatur in forum ridet.
What is "The poet whose letter was read in the forum laughs."
500
Tragic event in 64 A.D., exacerbated by urban overpopulation
What is the Great Fire of Rome?