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(Geography)
(Geography)
Containing the Sporades and Cyclades islands, what arm of the Mediterranean Sea lies to the north of Crete, separating Asia Minor from Greece, and was named for the father of Theseus?
AEGEAN SEA / MARE AEGAEUM
Where might a Roman have seen a man cutting himself free with a knife after colliding with a rival around the mēta at the end of the spīna to avoid getting trampled by his horses?
CIRCUS MAXIMUS/CHARIOT RACE
In Book 14 of Homer’s Iliad, which goddess, in an attempt to influence the outcome of the Trojan War, asked a son of Nyx to help her temporarily incapacitate her husband Zeus?
HERA
Dēscrībāmus nunc prōprietātēs dictiōnum in hāc sententiā: Rēgīna, ā cīvibus laudāta, erat laeta. Quae pārs ōrātiōnis est “rēgīna”?
NŌMEN
Quid Anglicē significat venēnum?
POISON / POTION / VENOM / DRUG
As part of the war indemnity imposed on the Carthaginians, what island was given entirely to Rome as its first province outside peninsular Italy?
SICILY
What was the relationship between the emperor Caligula and Julia the Elder?
JULIA THE ELDER WAS CALIGULA’S GRANDMOTHER
Whose ghost had appeared to Aeneas as the Greeks took the city, warning him to flee?
HECTOR
Dēscrībāmus nunc prōprietātēs dictiōnum in hāc sententiā: Rēgīna, ā cīvibus laudāta, erat laeta. Quae pārs ōrātiōnis est “laeta”?
ADIECTĪVUM
What English term used in geometry literally “carries itself around” the outside of a circular area?
CIRCUMFERENCE
Which letter identifies the Hellespont, a critical shipping lane near the site of Troy where Helle fell while riding the Golden Ram to Colchis?
E
What emperor might have gone on to be one of Rome’s greatest rulers if not for his untimely death in 81 AD, after which he was succeeded by his markedly less beloved brother Domitian?
TITUS
Who, the first mortal on Ithaca to learn the true identity of the disguised Odysseus, had recently returned from sandy Pylos with a seer and had spent years supporting his mother Penelope?
TELEMACHUS
Dēscrībāmus nunc prōprietātēs dictiōnum in hāc sententiā: Rēgīna, ā cīvibus laudāta, erat laeta. Quae pārs ōrātiōnis est “erat”?
VERBUM
A secant is a line that crosses a curve at two or more points. From what Latin word with what meaning is secant derived?
SECĀRE (to cut)
Which letter identifies the Saronic Gulf, the location of the port that Theseus founded at Piraeus and the island of Salamis from where Telamonian Ajax hailed?
D
In 238 BC, what Carthaginian man and father of Hannibal was given chief command of the Punic forces?
HAMILCAR (BARCA)
In a touching scene that echoes an almost identical moment from Book 11 of Homer’s Odyssey, what man thrice attempts to embrace the ghost of his wife Creüsa while leaving Troy in Book 2 of Vergil’s Aeneid?
AENEAS
Translate the following sentence from Latin to English: duōs annōs trāns mare nāvigāvimus.
WE SAILED ACROSS THE SEA FOR TWO YEARS
The English and Latin word augur has some dubious derivation. According to some, it derives from augēre. To others, it derives from what Latin noun with what meaning, which also gives us words like “aviation”?
AVIS - BIRD
Against a fleet commanded by Hanno the Great, where did the Romans led by Lutatius Catulus effectively end the First Punic War in 241 BC?
AEGATES (ISLANDS)
Perhaps Titus’ only major “controversy” was the affair he carried on with a Jewish princess. Name her.
BERENICE
What hero, who killed famous kings like Hippocoön, Neleüs, Laomedon, and Eurytus, was most famous for serving his cousin by completing mighty tasks such as avian pest control and royal clothing theft, as well as lion and hydra slaying?
HERACLES / HERCULES
Using the verb sequor, say in Latin “you are following.”
SEQUERIS / SEQUIMINĪ
What is the meaning of the word fūgere in the following sentence. OR (For the DAILY DOUBLE), translate the whole sentence: Fūribus fūgere nōn licet.
IT IS NOT ALLOWED / PERMITTED FOR THIEVES TO FLEE