Grammar
Vocab/Derivatives
Mythology
History
Latin Literature
100

What case would be used for the phrase "my friend" in the sentence "Come here, my friend"?

Vocative

100

If someone calls you an Ursiform, what do you look like?

A Bear

100

What son of Zeus completed 12 labors?

Heracles

100

Rome's earliest aqueduct and its first major road both shared what name?

Appia / Appian

100

Who wrote the autobiographical Commentarii de Bello Gallico?

Julius Caesar

200

In the sentence 'Quintus saepe verberātur ā Marcō', what is the use of the ablative word 'Marcō'?

Ablative of Agent

200

What does the Latin noun fulmen mean in English?

Lightning

200

What do the following have in common? Cocytus, Phlegethon, Acheron, Lethe, Styx

Rivers of the Underworld

200

Who was the second emperor of Rome?

Tiberius

200

What meter is the meter of Latin epic poetry?

Dactylic Hexameter

300

What is the perfect active infinitive of ponō, ponere?

posuisse

300

Which of the following is not a verb meaning fear: timeo, taceo, vereor, metuo?

taceo

300

What god gave horses to mankind and fathered Pegasus with Medusa?

Poseidon / Neptune

300

Which two Roman brothers famously sought the office of tribune and then attempted to pass agrarian legislation breaking up large estates of the wealthy? They are considered the founders of the Populares party.

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

300

Who wrote the Ars Amatoria?

Ovid

400

Translate the following setence: Duās horās pugnābāmus.

We were fighting for two hours

400

What is the difference between iter and iterum?

journey (iter) and again (iterum)

400

Who was sent to the underworld to retrieve a portion of the beauty of Persephone?

Psyche

400

Marcus Licinius Crassus, the member of the first triumvirate, died at Carrhae at the hands of what people?

Parthians

400

What Latin elegist wrote to a woman named Clodia, although he referred to her as Lesbia?

Catullus

500

When you are recognized, perform the action indicated in the following Latin command: Fac sonum equī.  

*you have to neigh*

500

What English adjective, derived from the adverb nōn and a Latin verb meaning “be warm” (caleo), means “coolly unconcerned” or “indifferent”?

Nonchalant

500

What mythological monster was comprised of part Lion, part Snake, and part Goat?

the Chimera

500
Lake Trasimene, Ilipa, Cannae, and Zama were all battles fought in what war?

Second Punic War

500

What famous writer of epigrams was known to have called the emperor dominus et deus?

Martial