Vocab guru
Give the Latin 3rd declension dictionary form of
PERCUSSOR - don't forget the meaning
20 pts
percussor, percussoris (m)
assassin
Who is being described?
dicitur ____ (caput Pompeiī videntem, lacrimavisse)
15 pts
Caesar
verum aut falsum:
Caesar and Pompey battled in Gaul
10 pts
falsum
Name two ways that the figure of Caesar stands out.
20 pts
the scarlet cloak
the center of the composition
seated upon the tiger skin
laurel wreath
(variations)
What is the date of Caesar's assassination?
20 pts
The ides of March, or March 15
to what is this referring? -be detailed
tribus et vigintī vulneribus confossus est
30 pts
Caesar has been stabbed with 23 wounds
What case the the subject of an indirect statement?
10 pts
accusative
Where did Caesar die? Be specific about the building, and where in that building.
40 pts
The theatre of Pompey
at Pompey's statue
Both artists use what color to immediately surround Caesar?
15 pts
red
Who won the grammy for the album "media nox"?
20 pts
Taylor Swift
Show us your dexter manus from your sinister manus and shake it when you say, "dexter manus", "sinister manus"
20 pts
Right hand = dexter
Left hand = sinister
Make all 4 remaining types of infinitives for the verb;
fundō, fundere and translate each literally
50 pts
fundī - to be poured
fudisse - to have poured
fuditus esse - to have been poured
fuditūrus esse - about to pour
Caesar is said to have shed tears when he saw what two items?
30 pts
Pompey's head
Pompey's ring
Who holds the orbis terrarum in both portraits?
30 pts
Caesar and Pompey
What did the groundhog say?
10 pts
early spring!
How are testamentum and heres related?
40 pts
In a will (testamentum), one often bestows/bequeaths/leaves items to his/her heir (heres).
Translate literally this IS:
Caesar scivit (senatum non sibi favēre)
30 pts
Caesar knew that the senate was not/did not favor/support him.
Who is being described?
adulescens annos decem et octo natus, Caesaris nepos, quem ille testamento heredem reliquerat et nomen suum ferre iusserat.
15 pts.
Octavian, JC's heir
What word appears on the broken statue? (full and how it appears)
30 pts
P(ATRIA)
What is the "unda praesina"
50 pts
The Green Wave
A footsoldier is a pedis. What is a horse soldier in Latin (you do not have to give entire dictionary form)?
10 pts
eques, equitis (m)
(you do not have to give entire dictionary form)
Give three possible ATSV verbs in Latin
30 pts
answers wil vary
scire, constat, dicere, nuntio, scribo
What is interesting about the Brutus who was part of the conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar?
20 pts
Brutus was from the same family of the Bruti who was Rome's first consul after the kings were driven out. (Remember Lucretia and the change from kingship to republic?)
sexaginta vel amplius senatoribus equitibusque Romanīs
this Latin phrase would best support which portrait, and translate it
50 pts
The death of Caesar
with 60 or more Roman senators and equites (you can call them horesemen, which is the origin)
What is the name of the TOWN (not the Rubicon River) where Caesar said, "Alea Iacta est" - the die is cast, no turning back
50 pts
Ariminum