Plenty of Pliny
Roman History -- but with Ladies?!
Virgil's Virtues
Grammar
Guess what Magister is Thinking
100
This was the reason Pliny the Younger survived the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

What is Homework

100

This jaded lover of Aeneas wrapped up her term as Carthage's founder early after he left

Who is Dido?

100

This style of poetry, found in epics, contains 13 to 17 syllables per line?

What is Dactylic Hexameter?

100

This type of participle often expresses necessity, especially in a passive periphrastic.

What is a Gerundive

100

This is when so many great things are happening in our lives.

When is Today?

200

In the bonus letter that College Board doesn't want you to read, this is the troublesome group Pliny inquires about.

Who are the Christians?

200

This queen of the Gods took the role as chief antagonist of the Trojans.

Who is Juno?

200

In order to write his over 10,000 line epic, this is the amount of lines Vergil needed to average writing a day

What is 3 lines?

200

When word order is flip-flipped, reminding the reader of a Greek X.

What is Chiasmus?
200

This thoughtful textbook writer is your friend.

Who is Geoffrey Steadman?

300

This emperor was Pliny's favorite work buddy.

Who is Trajan?

300
This warrior maiden got her start early, after being tied to a spear and hurled across the river.

Who is Camilla?

300

This verb is useful for starting or ending epics, when you need to found a city or bury a sword.

What is Condo, Condere, Condidi, Conditus?

300

When a syllable drops out like in sperasti, or when you pass out.

What is syncopation?

300
This is the most important takeaway from Semester 1.

What is Ghosts are Real?

400

This paranoid emperor placed Pliny on an assassination list, but didn't live to see the job done.

Who is Domitian?

400

Despite the fact that she is the centerpoint of the Latin-Trojan war, this princess has no speaking parts in the Aeneid.

Who is Lavinia?

400

These are the three commandments for a Roman Aeneas.

What is to rule the peoples with authority, spare the subjected, and crush down the proud with war.

400

This grammatical construction is typified with an ablative and a participle, for a short, punchy report

What is an Ablative Absolute?

400

This is Magister's favorite Latin word to say.

What is itaque

Will also accept Discipuli

500

The name of the philosopher who put the ghost in the Athenian house to rest.

Who is Athenodorus?

500

The name of Pliny the Younger's wife

Who is Calpurnia?
500

This Fury whips of a fury among Turnus, Amata, and the Latins

Who is Allecto?

500

This type of condition is represented here
sī…paterentur…et…, colerem (et)…tecta manērent, et…posuissem

What is a Contrary to Fact

500

This is the strongest power in the universe

What is the power of friendship?