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100
The author of the Aeneid.
What is Virgil?
100
These twins were the founders of Rome.
What is Romulus and Remus?
100
The term for marking the long and short syllables in a line of poetry.
What is scansion?
100
ante meridiem
What is before noon?
100
1st of the month
What is the Kalends?
200
He wrote the De Bello Gallico.
What is Caesar?
200
The year the last of the 7 kings was driven out of Rome.
What is 509BC?
200
The term for a metrical unit formed by two long syllables.
What is a spondee?
200
tempus fugit
What is time flies?
200
Tuesday
What is Dies Martis?
300
A prolific author, many of his speeches, including those against Catiline, survive.
What is Cicero?
300
This Carthaginian invaded Italy by crossing the Alps with an army that included elephants.
What is Hannibal?
300
The term for a metrical unit formed by the combination of a long syllable and two short syllables.
What is a dactyl?
300
Carthago delenda est.
What is Carthage must be destoyed?
300
5th of the month (sometimes the 7th)
What is Nones?
400
This poet is most famous for the phrase carpe diem.
What is Horace?
400
The first Roman emperor.
What is Augustus?
400
The meter of epic poetry, used by Virgil for the Aeneid and Ovid for the Metamorphoses.
What is dactylic hexameter?
400
in vino veritas
What is in wine there is truth?
400
Place you would go to watch the chariot races
What is Circus Maximus?
500
Famous lines from his poetry include "odi et amo," "ave atque vale," and "vivamus, mea Lesbia, et amemus."
What is Catullus?
500
This emperor supposedly played his fiddle while Rome burned.
What is Nero?
500
The meter used by Catullus in many of his poems, its name comes from the number of syllables per line.
What is hendecasyllabic?
500
mens sana in corpore sano
What is a sound mind in a sound body?
500
These include Bestiarii, Retiarii, Venatores and Thracians.
What is gladiators?