Vocabulary
The Story
Verbs
Nouns
Just for Fun: Mythology
100

This is the verb that means, "to lead."

Please provide the infinitive form.

What is ducere?

100

This is the deed that Cepheus rewarded Perseus for.

What is saving Andromeda from the sea monster?

100

It's the tense of the verb vincta erat.

What is the pluperfect tense?

100

If the verb is active, this is the noun that does the action.

If the verb is passive, this is the noun that the action is done to.

What is the Subject?

100
He was the grandfather of Perseus, destined to be killed by a grandson's hand.

Who is Acrisius?

200

More violent than inire, inrumpere means this.

What is "to burst in"?

200

This was what Cepheus offered to Perseus for his heroic deed.

What is Andromeda's hand in marraige?

200

It's the tense of the verb iniit.

What is the Perfect Tense?

200

It's the case of patrī in "puellam patrī reddidit."

What is the Dative Case?

200

Of course this Roman goddess would come up with the clever solution of a mirror to let Perseus fight Medusa without turning to stone.

Who is Minerva?
300

This verb shares a definition with necare and interficere

Please provide the infinitive form.

What is occidere?

300

This was Polydectes' fate when Perseus tracked him down in his palace.

What is being turned to stone?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

This is the characteristic of a verb that tells you whether the subject is doing the action or if the action is done to the subject (perhaps by zombies).

300

paucos annos, tres dies, and multos annos are all examples of this noun case and use.

What is the Accusative Duration of Time?

300
This is what the hands, or, rather, the claws, of the Gorgons were made of.

What is bronze?

400

Not to be confused with rex, regnum, or regina, this is the noun that means "palace."

What is regia?

400

This is the object that fulfilled the prophecy about Acrisius' death.

What is a discus?

400

If your Latin verb is comprised of two words instead of one, you know it's in this voice.

What is the Passive Voice?

400

This is the case and use of the noun that does the action of a passive verb.

What is the Ablative of Agent?

400

This is the form Jupiter took when he fathered Perseus.

What is a shower of gold?

500

DAILY DOUBLE

Andromeda vinculis vincta erat. These are the definitions (not translations) of vinculis and vincta erat.

500

This is where Danae had fled because she was afraid of Polydectes.

What is the Temple of Diana?

500

It's the tense AND VOICE of the verb fēcit.

What is Perfect Active?

500

If the sentence "I ate my ice cream with a spoon," were translated into Latin, the case AND USE of the noun spoon would be this.

What is the Ablative of Means or Instrument?

500

In some versions of the Perseus myth, he used Medusa's head to turn this Titan into stone, though it was as a mercy, not a punishment.

Who is Atlas?