The Romans
Verbs
Latin Grammar
Mary Beard
Potpourri
100

Roman society was divided between these two classes.

What are patricians and plebeians?

100

This letter replaces the "h" in traho, trahere for the perfect tense.

What is "x"?

100

Providing a verb's person, number, tense, voice, and mood.

What is parsing?

100

Mary uses this to get around Rome.

What is a bicycle?

100

-ire.

What is the infinitive ending for 4th conjugation verbs?

200

Rome's birthday.

What is April 21st, 753 BC?

200

We had been looking around.

What is circumspectaveramus?

200

Because it gets its case from its function in the clause.

What is "Why doesn't a relative pronoun have to match its antecedent in case?"?

200

These are what Mary uses to learn about the common people of Rome.

What are tombstone inscriptions?

200

Tarquinius Superbus.

Who was the last king of Rome?

300

Rome fought these three wars against the city of Carthage.

What are the Punic Wars?

300

The infinitive of "sum".

What is esse?

300

The total number of noun declensions.

What is 5?

300

Although we can't, Mary gets to do this with the ancient artifacts she talks about.

What is touch them?

300

He was the first Roman general to march his army on Rome itself.

Who was Sulla?

400

Before the emperors, two men holding this elected office ran the state.

What is consul?

400

This type of verb does not take a direct object.

What is intransitive?

400

Read the entire sentence.

What is the first step in translating Latin?

400

These are Mary's preferred form of footwear. 

What are sneakers/trainers?

400

Before C. Iulius Caesar took his army there, Romans thought this land was possibly mythical.

What is Britannia?

500

This mother of Romulus and Remus claimed that Mars was their father.

Who is Rhea Silvia?

500

Y'all had been.

What is fueratis?

500

Norma Goldman and Jacob E. Nyenhuis.

Who are the authors/editors of Latin via Ovid?

500

He met Mary Beard.

Who is Mr. Adams?

500

This nymph was changed into the reeds that Pan created his pipes from.

Who is Syrinx/Syringa?