A TENSE Situation
If the stem of a participle ends with -ns or -nt, this is the tense of the participle.
What is present tense?
This case is crucial for determining the stem of a noun.
What is genitive?
The phrase "rē vērā" means: a) rarely right b) in reality; c) really weird d) to revere.
What is b) in reality?
The busy part of Rome that the young woman walked through in the story titled "Adventus" was known as the: a) Sūbaru; b) Cerēbro; c) Cerberus; or d) Subūra.
What was d) Subūra?
These "gods" constituted the Capitoline triad.
Who were Jupiter, Juno and Minerva?
The presence of these four letters between the perfect stem and the present ending of a verb indicates a pluperfect subjunctive.
What is "-isse"?
Participles are verbal ________.
What are adjectives?
The word arcūs (with the macron) can either mean "the arches" or "___ the arch."
What is "of the arch"?
This was the name of the Greek philosopher woman that arrived for Haterius's birthday party: a) Euriposyn; b) Eeyespiyen; c) Eupherosyn; d) Euphrosynē; e) Europerson.
What is d) Euphrosynē?
This ancient spirit was believed, since Etruscan times, to be the god of boundaries.
Who was Terminus?
This tense, when in the subjunctive mood, contains the entire infinitive of a verb.
What is Imperfect?
Besides case, adjectives match their nouns in these two other criteria.
What are number and gender?
By saying "Haterius laudandus est," the Senator named Crispus was encouraging the other guests that they should do this.
What is praise Haterius?
This word refers to the morning visitation of clients to a patron's home in Roman culture.
What is salūtātiō?
These two mystery religions from the East were temporarily banned during the reign of Augustus.
What were the religions of Isis and Bacchus/Dionysus/Liber?
In the first and second conjugations, future tense verbs look a lot like this other tense.
What is imperfect?
All plural genitive nouns end in these two letters (and may include other letters before them).
What is -um?
The phrase "pōcula iaciēbantur" meant that this action was being done to cups at Haterius' dinner.
What is throw(n)?
Eryllus was Haterius's consultant in all matters involving this.
What is style/fashion?
This mystery religion was popular with the soliders.
What was Mithraism?
In the passive voice, these three tenses require the use of the participle.
What are perfect, future perfect and pluperfect?
In this declension, nouns are mostly feminine, unless derived from the word for "day," in which case they are masculine.
What is fifth?
The phrase "eōdem diē" means: a) on the same day; b) at the end of the day; or c) everyday.
What is a) on the same day?
Eryllus was of the opinion that this subject was currently all the rage among Rome's finest citizens.
What is philosophy?
The worst persecutions of Christians in Rome came just before it achieved tolerance (and soon prominence) beginning with the Edict of Milan in this year under the Christian emperor Constantine.
When was AD 313?