Vergil's Life
Vergil's full name
What is Publius Vergilius Maro?
This famous three worded Latin phrase gives its credit to Caesar
What is veni, vidi, vici?
repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words
What is Alliteration?
habeo
What is "think/consider"?
The amount of books in the Aeneid
What is 12 books?
Where Vergil studied mathematics and medicine
What is Rome?
Caesar's family claimed descent from ___
Who is Iulus?
words that are arranged in the order A-B-A-B
What is Synchysis?
aes alienum
what is "debt"?
Magna caterva
What is "a great troop"?
Where Vergil composed the Aeneid
What is Naples?
Define Pontifex Maximus
What is high priest of the state religion?
separation of a compound word into its component parts
What is tmesis?
Eorum hominum genera sunt duo
what is "there are two kinds of these people"?
Sic notus Ulixes?
What is "Is Odysseus familiar to you?"?
Vergil's three most famous literary works
What are the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid?
Caesar's first wife
Who is Cornelia?
omission of connecting words such as et or sed where they would normally be expected in a seried of words
What is asyndeton?
aut inuria potentiorum
what is "or by the injury of the more powerful"?
Miseri cives
What is "wretched citizens"?
Vergil's Birthday
What is 15 October 70 B.C.?
Caesar's Birthday
What is 100 BCE on the 12th of Quinctilis?
What is litotes?
pontem, qui erat ad Genavam, iubet rescindi.
what is "the bridge which was toward Geneva was to be destroyed"?
hoc inclusi ligno occultantur Achivi
What is "in this lump of wood the Greeks are hiding"?