Certamen Questions-1

After the death of Domitian, what Roman author began satires, in which he coined the famous phrase pānem et circēnsēs?

What Dalmatian-born late Latin author wrote a Dē Virīs Illustribus and famously translated the Bible into Latin?

What man came to aid his son-in-law in retaking the kingship of Thebes from his treacherous brother?

What beehive-shaped stone marks the spot where two eagles met to determine the center of the world?

What poet was born on a farm in Venusia and later received a Sabine farm from the Emperor Augustus?

What historian, across two works, covers the periods from the death of Augustus to the death of Nero?

What area in the Roman house served as the gathering place of clients awaiting to be admitted to the atrium?

Casina, Pseudolus, Mostellaria, and Miles Gloriosus are all plays by what Roman playwright?

What Epicurean philosopher wrote a six-book didactic poem that included an invocation to Venus and was edited by Cicero?

Which of the following words does not share the same Latin root as the others?

Of those plays, which one involves a haunted house?

Who quoted a character from his own epic poem Pharsālia and conspired in a plot against Nero?

Soon after Caecilius Metellus defeated Critolaus in Greece, Lucius Mummius overran what city, razing it in 146 BCE?

What renegade pestered the Second Triumvirate with piracy until Agrippa finally defeated him in 36 B.C.?

What two meanings does the Latin noun iūs have?

What early Latin poet used the Saturnian Meter to translate Homer’s Odyssey into Latin?

What use of the ablative is found in the following sentence: Noster exercitus multō melior quam hostium est?

Thrasymedes, Peisistratus, and Antilochus are all sons of what king of Pylos?

What work of Latin literature, an imitation of Hesiod’s Works and Days , is a didactic poem about agriculture?

What use of the accusative is found in the following Latin phrase, caput nectentur?