Keartamen 3 (K3) - Preliminary Round 2

Moderator says: “I will read one test question for no points. This question is not reflective of the content of the round or tournament.

0. What object names a song featuring the lyrics “fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore,” titles a progressive rock album whose album cover features a triangular prism, and names a dance where a performer slides backward but appears to be moving forward?

(THE) MOON

B1: In “Fly Me to the Moon,” the performer asks to see what “spring is like on” what two planets?

JUPITER and MARS

B2: What songwriter wrote the song “Moonshadow,” which begins with the lyrics “Yes, I’m being followed by a moonshadow / moonshadow, moonshadow”?

(CAT) STEVENS // YUSUF (ISLAM) // (STEVEN DEMETRE) GEORGIOU

Moderator says: “Subsequent questions will count for points. Good luck and have fun!”

1. What Roman province, home to the tribes that inspired the essedārius gladiators, included both a city where Minerva was worshiped alongside a water-goddess named Sulis and the cities of Colōnia Camulodūnum, Eborācum, and Londīnium?

BRITĀNNIA

B1: What English name is given to the leaders of Celtic society, one of whose functions was to protect a religious cult that believed in a form of reincarnation where the soul passed into another animate being after death?

DRUID(S)

B2: What metal was imported in huge quantities to the Mediterranean from Cornwall, in the south-west of Britain, though it was also mined in the north-west of Spain?

TIN

2. What man chose a name meaning “given by God” for his newborn son, Adeodatus, while practicing the heresy of Manichaeism, which he eventually rejected in a 13-book autobiography that he called his Confessions?

(SAINT) AUGUSTINE (OF HIPPO)

B1: Name Augustine’s mother, who is also a saint of the Catholic Church.

(SAINT) MONICA

B2: Augustine’s pupil Quodvultdeus — named in a similar vein to Augustine’s son — held what position, which Cyprian held when he wrote Dē Lāpsīs?

(ARCH)BISHOP OF CARTHAGE

3. During what season of the year would one see “[nōn] iam [sustinentēs] onus / silvae labōrantēs,” “ligna super focō / largē,” and “gelū flūmina [cōnstantia] / acūtō,” as described in an Ode by Horace?

WINTER // HIEMS / BRŪMA

B1: Translate into English this sentence from the beginning of that ode on Mount Soracte, which has been left unmacronized: “Alta stat nive candidum Soracte.”

(MOUNT) SORACTE STANDS WHITE WITH {DEEP / HIGH / TALL} SNOW [NOT (MOUNT) SORACTE STANDS TALL WITH WHITE SNOW]

B2: Horace instructs the reader to pull out a vintage of Sabine wine that he describes with the adjective quadrīmus, meaning that the vintage is what?

FOUR YEARS OLD // AGED FOR FOUR YEARS

4. In the Odyssey, what occupation is shared by a son of Terpes whom Telemachus spares alongside Medon and a man who moves Odysseus to tears at Alcinoüs’ court by recounting his quarrel with Achilles?

MINSTREL / BARD / SINGER / POET

B1: What occupation was held by Medon, who was also spared by Telemachus during the killing of the suitors?

HERALD

B2: During Odysseus’ stay at Alcinoüs’ court, the bard Demodocus performs three songs, one of which describes a quarrel by Odysseus with Achilles. Give the subjects of the other two songs, one of which causes Odysseus to burst into tears

HEPHAESTUS CATCHES THE AFFAIR OF) ARES AND APHRODITE (IN A BED BOOBY-TRAPPED WITH CHAINS) and TROJAN HORSE or {SACK / FALL} OF TROY [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

5. What Latin impersonal verb appears in two common abbreviations that both mean “to wit,” “that is to say,” or “namely” — sc. and viz.?

LICET

B1: A more modern Latin phrase featuring licet means “a god may do what a cow may not.” Please fill in the blanks of the Latin phrase with the two rhyming words that express that sentiment: quod licet [blank], nōn licet [blank].

IOVĪ and BOVĪ [RESPECTIVELY]

B2: The Latin abbreviation n.l. can stand for nōn licet, meaning “it is not allowed,” but it can also stand for what other abbreviation, meaning “it is not clear”?

NŌN LIQUET

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6. Note to players: A description is acceptable. What set of conflicts, the first year of which was covered in Varro of Atax’s historical poem Bellum Sēquanīcum, was the subject of a self-laudatory seven-book work that Aulus Hirtius extended and Julius Caesar wrote?

(CAESAR’S) GALLIC WAR(S) // CAESAR’S CAMPAIGNS IN GAUL [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What year B.C. is both covered in Varro of Atax’s Bellum Sēquanīcum and the first book of Caesar’s Dē Bellō Gallicō?

58 (B.C.)

B2: Which work of his, containing the quotation “a far-fetched word should be shunned like a rock,” did Caesar write while crossing the Alps from Italy to campaign in Gaul in 54 B.C.?

DĒ ANALOGIĀ

7. What people, the first triumph against whom was earned by Publius Ventidius Bassus, were led by Surena when they killed one of the triumvirī, Marcus Licinius Crassus, at the Battle of Carrhae?

PARTHIAN(S) // ARSACID(S) // ARSACID (PERSIANS)

B1: Among the losses at Carrhae were the Roman legionary standards, which were known by what Latin name?

AQUILA(E) // SIGNUM / SIGNA [DO NOT ACCEPT “VĒXILLUM” or “VĒXILLA”]

B2: Orodes II was the Parthian king during the Battle of Carrhae, but what king and great enemy of Tiridates II returned the aquilae thirty years later to ransom a son of his that the Romans were holding hostage?

PHRAATES IV [PROMPT ON “PHRAATES”]

8. In the Iliad, what man shows his character by donning a weasel-skin cap and revealing the location of the “snowy-white” horses of a Trojan ally to his captors, Odysseus and Diomedes, after a failed spying attempt?

DOLON

B1: If he succeeded in his spying mission on the Greek ships — and the Trojans won the war — Dolon was promised the horses of Achilles, which would necessarily have included which two immortal ones?

XANTHUS and BALIUS

B2: Dolon is killed in which of the Iliad’s 24 books? It is commonly called the Doloneia after him and is sometimes thought to have been inserted into the Iliad centuries after its original composition, leading some scholars to remove it from the poem.

(BOOK) 10 / KAPPA // (ILIAD) 10 / KAPPA

9. Note to players: There will be an extra clue following the sentence. Translate the following sentence into Latin using a present participle: “The charioteer was frightened by the sound of the spectators.” Keep in mind that “spectators” can be rendered as “those who were watching.”

AURĪGA {(PER)TERRITUS ERAT // (PER)TERRITUS EST // (DĒ)TERRĒBĀTUR} {SONŌ / SONŌRE / STREPITŪ // PROPTER SONUM // OB SONUM} {SPECTANTIUM / ASPICIENTIUM}[ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Now say in Latin: The soldier said that the road would not be guarded.

MĪLES {DĪXIT NŌN // NEGĀVIT} VIAM {CŪSTŌDĪTUM / PRŌTĒCTUM} ĪRĪ // MĪLES DĪXIT FORE UT VIA NŌN CŪSTŌDĪRĒTUR // MĪLES {DĪXIT NŌN // NEGĀVIT} FORE UT VIA CŪSTŌDĪRĒTUR [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Using the word obviam, say in Latin: They went to the harbor to meet the departing hero.

(ILLĪ) Ī(V)ERUNT AD PORTUM OBVIAM {HĒRŌĪ / VIRŌ} {DISCĒDENTĪ / ABEUNTĪ} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

10. Featuring metopes(“"meh-TUH-pees"”) of the Amazonomachy, co-designed by Callicrates and Ictinus, and serving as the primary source of the Elgin Marbles, what building on the Acropolis was a temple to the virgin goddess Athena?

(THE) PARTHENON

B1: The centerpiece of the Parthenon was a chryselephantine statue of Athena, meaning it was overlaid with what two precious materials?

GOLD and IVORY

B2: What sculptor designed that statue of Athena within the Parthenon?

PH(E)IDIAS

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11. What emperor assigned a vicārius to oversee each of his 12 dioceses, but gave ultimate control over them to two subordinates — Constantius Chlorus and Galerius — and two superiors — Maximian and himself — under the tetrarchic system?

DIOCLETIAN / DIOCLES

B1: Diocletian was elevated to the throne after the Battle of the Margus, where he defeated what reigning emperor?

CARINUS

B2: During his reign, Diocletian suspended the “Little Peace of the Church” that what emperor had established and resumed the persecution of Christians?

GALLIENUS

12. Though other accounts say he had his children with Euryganeia, what man tore a golden brooch from his deceased wife’s robe and blinded himself after realizing that their children — including Antigone — were products of incest?

OEDIPUS

B1: Name the other three children of Oedipus and Jocasta.

ISMENE, POLYN(E)ICES, and ETEOCLES

B2: In Sophocles’ Antigone, Antigone hangs herself after Creon imposes what punishment on her for performing burial rites on her brother Polyneices? A description is fine.

{BURIES HER ALIVE // ENTOMBS HER // TRAPS HER // WALLS HER} IN A CAVE [PROMPT IF “CAVE” IS NOT GIVEN BY ASKING “WHERE?”; ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

13. A plea for rescue from marriage to Pyrrhus, laments about being abandoned on Lemnos and Naxos, and an entreaty that Ulysses return more quickly from Troy are the subjects of certain letters in what work by Ovid?

(OVID’S) HEROIDES

B1: What is notable about the last six letters of the Heroides relative to the previous 15 letters? A description is fine.

(THEY ARE THREE PAIRS OF LETTERS AND) INCLUDE (BOTH A LETTER FROM A WOMAN AND) A RESPONSE BY A MAN [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS] [PROMPT ON “THEY ARE THE DOUBLE HEROIDES” OR SIMILAR BY ASKING “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN PRACTICE”?]

B2: What woman is the only historical figure to have a letter in the Heroides, where she addresses her lover Phaon?

(P)SAPPHO

14. What Latin verb is at the root of the noun “benison,” the noun “ditty,” and the verbs indict(“"in-DITE"”) and “predict”?

DĪCŌ, DĪCERE [PROMPT ON “DĪCŌ” BY SAYING “PLEASE GIVE THE SECOND PRINCIPAL PART”]

B1: What derivative of dīcō and another Latin word refers to a court’s “official power to make legal decisions and judgments” or “the territory or sphere of activity over which the legal authority of a court extends”?

JURISDICTION

B2: What two-word term, a French phrase meaning “to speak true” that derives from the Latin words vērus and dīcō, refers to “a preliminary examination of a juror” that determines if the juror is fit to serve for a given trial?

VOIR DIRE

15. What grammatical construction, which is exemplified by the first word in Terence’s sentence “optātō advenīs,” was used by Romans to express the year, as in the phrase “Mārcō Lepidō et Lūciō Orestē cōnsulibus”?

ABLATIVE(S) ABSOLUTE

B1: Identify the use of the ablative demonstrated in this fragment of Accius: “Sed quaenam haec mulier est fūnestā veste, tōnsū lūgubrī?”

(ABLATIVE OF) QUALITY / DESCRIPTION

B2: Identify the use of the ablative exemplified by temporibus in this Ciceronian sentence: “In eō nōn tū quidem tōtā rē sed, quod maximum est, temporibus errāstī.”

(ABLATIVE OF) SPECIFICATION

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16. In middle age, who perhaps hired a Mytilenean named Diophanes and a Cumaean named Blossius to tutor her sons, helping her become known not only as the daughter of Scipio Africanus, but also the mother of the Gracchi?

CORNELIA (AFRICANA)

B1: Cornelia supposedly had twelve children, but it is likely that only three survived to adulthood. Two were Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, while the third was what woman, who married her cousin Scipio Aemilianus?

SEMPRONIA

B2: According to legend, after the death of her husband, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Cornelia declined a marriage proposal from a holder of what foreign position?

{KING / RULER} OF EGYPT // PHARAOH (OF EGYPT)

17. What author, who perhaps wrote the works Leon and Ariolus while imprisoned for saying that it was “by fate [that] the Metellī had become consuls at Rome,” composed a Saturnian-verse epic called Bellum Pūnicum?

(GNAEUS) NAEVIUS

B1: Into how many books was Naevius’ Bellum Poenicum later divided by the grammarian Octavius Lampadio?

SEVEN

B2: A surviving fragment of Naevius’ Ariolus details how to entertain guests from Praeneste and what city, the hometown of a playwright named Luscius whom Terence attacked in his prologues for charging him with contāminātiō?

LANUVIUM [DO NOT ACCEPT “LAVINIUM,” DESPITE KETAN]

18. Translate the following sentence, adapted from Suetonius’ Life of Augustus, into English: Puerōs litterās et natāre aliaque docuit.

HE TAUGHT THE BOYS {LETTERS / READING / LITERATURE // TO READ}, (AND) {SWIMMING // TO SWIM}, AND (THE) OTHER THINGS [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Which of these verbs does not take a double accusative: poscō, rogō, cēlō, mūtō?

MŪTŌ

B2: Now, knowing that sarcinae is synonymous with impedīmenta, translate into English this sentence, possibly influenced by Greek, from the Vetus Latīna: lēgis doctōribus vae, quia onerātis hominēs sarcinās importābilēs.

WOE (UN)TO THE {DOCTORS / TEACHERS} OF THE LAW, BECAUSE YOU BURDEN {MEN / PEOPLE / HUMANS] WITH {UNBEARABLE // UNCARRYABLE} {IMPEDIMENTS / LOADS / BAGGAGE / HINDRANCES / LUGGAGE / SORROWS / SACKS} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

19. What object, which titles an influential work in comparative religion by James Frazer, was revealed by two divine doves near Cumae after the Sibyl demanded that Aeneas pluck it from a tree to enter the Underworld?

(THE) GOLDEN BOUGH

B1: Besides The Golden Bough, Frazer produced an edition of what Greek author’s mythological travelogue Description of Greece?

PAUSANIAS

B2: Frazer’s The Golden Bough described the Rēx Nemorēnsis, a priest of Diana at Aricia who could be challenged to single combat by any runaway slave who successfully plucked a golden bough. According to Frazer, what minor deity served as the first Rēx Nemorēnsis after Hippolytus was resurrected by Asclepius, brought to Italy, and deified?

VIRBIUS

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20. Between what two declensions do the names of some trees vary — such as the words for “fig tree” and “pine tree” — as well as the Latin word for “home,” domus?

SECOND (DECLENSION) and FOURTH (DECLENSION)

B1: What Latin word for “oak tree” can also vary between the second and fourth declensions?

QUERCUS

B2: What Latin word for “distaff” can also vary between the second and fourth declensions?

COLUS

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