Keartamen 3 (K3) - Preliminary Round 4

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 musical, one of whose songs begins “high on a hill was a lonely goatherd,” describes the fallout from the Anschluss(“"ON-shloose"”) and contains the songs “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” “So Long Farewell,” and “Edelweiss”?

(THE) SOUND OF MUSIC

B1: The Sound of Music was the last musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, who also described the schoolteacher Anna Leonowens’ time in Siam in what other musical?

(THE) KING AND I

B2: What Rodgers and Hammerstein musical contains the songs “Younger Than Springtime” and “Some Enchanted Evening”?

SOUTH PACIFIC

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

1. What work, whose first book was written “on the river Gran, among the Quadi” in accordance with the principles of Epictetus, constitutes a private reflection on Stoic philosophy by an emperor-turned-author, Marcus Aurelius?

(MARCUS AURELIUS’) {MEDITATIONS // TA EIS HEAUTON}

B1: The Gran was a tributary of what larger river, around which Aurelius’ campaigns against the Quadi and related peoples were centered?

DANUBE / DANUVIUS (RIVER)

B2: Aurelius learned Epictetus’ doctrines from the editions of Arrian, who studied with Epictetus after the Stoic was forced from Rome during what emperor’s banishment of the philosophers and astrologers?

DOMITIAN(US)

2. What use of the subjunctive is found in the sentence “facile Caesar hostēs superābit tantum nē illī equitatum auxiliō mittant,” which could also use the conjunctive phrases “modo nē” or “dum nē”?

PROVISO / STIPULATIVE

B1: Now, say in the best classical Latin using dum: While these things were happening, the consuls set out for their provinces.

DUM HAEC {GERUNTUR / FĪUNT / ACCIDUNT / ĒVENIUNT}, CŌNSULĒS {IN / AD} (SUĀS) PRŌVINCIĀS PROFECTĪ (SUNT) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Now translate this Ciceronian sentence into English: “animō nōn dēficiam et id quod suscēpī, quoad poterō, perferam.”

I WILL NOT {FAIL IN MIND // LOSE COURAGE // DESPAIR} AND I WILL {CARRY THROUGH // FINISH} {THAT WHICH // WHAT} I {BEGAN / UNDERTOOK}, {AS LONG AS // TO THE DEGREE / EXTENT THAT} {I AM ABLE // WILL BE ABLE] [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS; DO NOT ACCEPT “UNTIL” FOR QUOAD]

3. Despite dying, what monster indirectly protected the city of Tegea from invasion, caused the death of the Argonaut Mopsus in the Libyan desert, and created the Atlas Mountains via the effects of her hair, blood, and petrifying head?

MEDUSA

B1: What god received two vials of the blood of another Gorgon from the goddess Athena, with one being able to revive men and the other being able to destroy them?

ASCLEPIUS

B2: To what daughter of Cepheus did Heracles give a lock of Medusa’s hair, promising that it would repel any siege of Tegea if she raised it three times on the city’s walls?

STEROPE

4. What author withdrew to his luxurious residence between the Quirinal and the Pincian after poorly governing the province of Africa Nova, giving him space to compose his incomplete work, Historiae, and the historical monograph Bellum Catilīnae?

(GAIUS) SALLUST(IUS CRISPUS)

B1: At what town in the Sabine country was Sallust born?

AMITERNUM

B2: Sallust’s life was hardly one of upstanding morality, for in addition to his embezzlement in Africa Nova, he was also supposedly horse-whipped for conducting an affair with what man’s wife?

(TITUS ANNIUS) MILO

5. What meaning is shared by the Latin adjective that lies at the root of “ague”(“"AY-gyoo"”) and the Latin adjective that lies at the root of “vinegar,” “eager,” and “acrid”?

SHARP / POINTED / PIERCING / SUBTLE / ACUTE / SHREWD / INTELLIGENT / BITTER [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Acūtus — the root of “ague” — and acer — the root of the other three — both derive from the same Proto-Indo-European root, meaning “sharp.” What is the meaning of the fourth-declension Latin noun acus, which also derives from that root?

NEEDLE / PIN

B2: What is the meaning of the Latin noun acer, a tree thought to be so called because of its sharp-edged leaves?

MAPLE (TREE)

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6. Originally captured after it rose to the top of a lābrum fictile, what substance was removed before returning to the apodytērium by an implement called a strigil in the Roman bath’s ūnctōrium?

OLIVE OIL // OLEUM OLĪVAE [PROMPT ON “OIL” or “OLEUM”]

B1: What Latin word refers to the dark, watery fluid that flowed out of an olive when it was first subjected to pressure?

AMURCA

B2: What type of enslaved person took care of a bather’s clothes and carried his strigilēs, olive oil, and towels?

CAPSĀRIUS

7. In the Iliad, an aged ambassador recounts what city’s near-fall to the Curetes, describing a king who failed to sacrifice first-fruits to Artemis, a monster that she sent to destroy its fields, and the stubbornness of Meleager in refusing to fight?

CALYDON

B1: Name that aged ambassador, who uses Meleager as an example of why Achilles should return to the battlefield.

PHOENIX

B2: What son of Andraemon and Gorge led the forces of Calydon to Troy?

THOAS

8. Quī deus Rōmānus, quī “torvus” ab Horātiō poētā appellātur, clangōre ēnsium exsultat et gaudet cruōre caedeque quandōcumque geritur bellum?

MARS

B1: Quī deus Rōmānus dolōrem gaudiō miscet cum hominum pōcula complet?

BACCHUS

B2: Secundum Ovidium poētam, quī deus Rōmānus aut quae dea Rōmāna fīēs, sī “fidem et pharetram” sūmpseris?

APOLLŌ

9. What author lamented “nesciō — sed fierī sentiō et excrucior” to complete a terse, two-line elegiac couplet in which he oxymoronically declares “ōdī et amō” to describe his feelings about Lesbia?

(GAIUS VALERIUS) CATULLUS

B1: A pair of poems by Catullus describe the death of what type of bird that Lesbia owned?

SPARROW / PASSER

B2: In the traditional numbering scheme for Catullus’ poems, his “ōdī et amō” couplet is given what number?

(CATULLUS) 85

10. Note to players: This sentence will have an extra clue. Translate this conditional, adapted from one of the Scipionic epitaphs: Sī dōnāta esset tibi longa vīta, maiōrum glōriam superāvissēs. Know that maiōrēs means “ancestors.”

IF A LONG LIFE HAD BEEN {GRANTED / GIVEN TO YOU // BESTOWED ON YOU}, YOU WOULD HAVE SURPASSED THE GLORY OF {YOUR / THE} {ANCESTORS // BETTERS // GREATER ONES} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Now translate this sentence, adapted from Livy’s Ab Urbe Conditā: nī frūmentum in tempore subvēnisset, omnibus famēs adveniēbat.

IF THE GRAIN HAD NOT COME {IN TIME // AT THE (RIGHT) TIME}, {HUNGER // A FAMINE} {WAS APPROACHING // WAS ARRIVING // WOULD HAVE BEEN APPROACHING // WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRIVING} FOR ALL [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Now translate this sentence, spoken by Veturia in Livy’s Ab Urbe Conditā: ego nisi peperissem, Rōma nōn oppugnārētur; nisi fīlium habērem, lībera in līberā patriā mortua essem.

IF I HAD NOT GIVEN BIRTH, ROME WOULD NOT BE {UNDER ATTACK // UNDER SIEGE // BEING ATTACKED // BEING SIEGED}; IF I DID NOT HAVE A SON, I WOULD HAVE DIED A FREE WOMAN IN A FREE {FATHERLAND / HOMELAND} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS, BUT CHECK BEFORE ACCEPTING EQUIVALENTS TO “IF I DID NOT HAVE A SON”]

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11. Hours after reviewing his troops at Caprae Palūs alongside his 300-man-strong bodyguard called the Celerēs, what man supposedly appeared to Proculus Julius after being engulfed in mist and snatched up by a whirlwind?

ROMULUS

B1: The period of interrēgnum after Romulus’ death lasted a year and ended when Numa Pompilius was enticed to Rome from what town, which the Romans thought to be the origin of the term Quirītēs?

CURES

B2: What was the Latin term for the groups into which the senators divided themselves during the interrēgnum, with each group choosing a man who would have power for five days before it rotated to the other groups?

DECURIA(E)

12. What general type of animal included a species called scomber, often possessed many squamae, and had a Latin name that formed the second half of the word “porpoise” and lay at the root of piscīna?

FISH

B1: The word scomber means “mackerel,” a word perhaps derived from the Latin noun macula. What is the meaning of macula, which also lies at the root of “immaculate”?

SPOT / MARK / STAIN / BLEMISH / STIGMA / FAULT

B2: The word scomber declines like the Latin word fiber, which is the name for what type of animal?

BEAVER

13. What activity is less risky than sea-trading and more honorable than moneylending, at least according to the first line of the oldest fully extant Latin prose work, a treatise by Cato the Elder occasionally called Dē Rē Rūsticā?

AGRICULTURE / FARMING [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Cato’s Dē Rē Rūsticā, better known as Dē Agrī Cultūrā, includes an encomium of what vegetable, praising its medicinal properties?

CABBAGE / BRASSICA

B2: Cato’s work on agriculture was carried on by Varro of Reate, who dedicated the first book of his own Dē Rē Rūsticā to what woman, his wife?

FUNDANIA

14. Note to players: This question will have more than one clue. What cardinal direction would one primarily travel to go from Salona to Abrittus, from Lugdunum to Sirmium, from Gades to Hierosolyma, and from Rome to Byzantium?

EAST

B1: What cardinal direction would one primarily travel to go from Drepanum to Neapolis?

NORTH

B2: What cardinal or intermediate direction — that is, northeast, southeast, southwest, or northwest — would one primarily travel to go from Serdica to ancient Philadelphia?

SOUTHEAST

15. In mythology, what man’s decapitated head was further mutilated when weaving pins were used to gouge out his eyes by the aged Alcmene, who sought revenge for his premature birth and imposition of 12 labors on Heracles?

EURYSTHEUS

B1: Eurystheus imposed the labors but entirely lacked the stomach for them. After being frightened by the sight of Heracles returning with the Nemean Lion’s skin, he communicated all future details through what herald of his?

COPREUS

B2: Later, Eurystheus led a war against Heracles’ descendants, but was defeated after what highborn woman voluntarily sacrificed herself, as an oracle had required?

MACARIA

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16. Who declares “nōn ignāra malī, miserīs succurrere discō,” has a realization that prompts the parenthetical “quis fallere possit amantem,” and is the “dux fēmina factī” who leads her people to found Carthage?

DIDO / ELISSA

B1: Translate this sentence from Aeneid 4, which features that parenthetical: “at rēgīna dolōs — quis fallere possit amantem? — praesēnsit.”

BUT THE QUEEN — (FOR) WHO {CAN // IS ABLE TO} {DECEIVE / TRICK} A {LOVER // LOVING ONE}? — PERCEIVED {THE / HIS} TRICKS (AHEAD OF TIME) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: In Aeneid 4, Dido sends Anna to beg Aeneas to remain in Carthage, but he does not listen, because — as Vergil puts it — “the Fates oppose.” What two-word Latin phrase does Vergil use with this meaning?

FĀTA OBSTANT

17. Soldiers reportedly played dice on what city’s priceless paintings after Rome captured it from Critolaüs, leading to the Achaean League’s dissolution by Lucius Mummius, its captor, in 146 B.C.?

CORINTH

B1: What Greek historian, an émigré to Rome in 168 B.C., covers the sack in his Histories, which detailed the period of Roman conquest from 264 B.C. to 146 B.C.?

POLYBIUS

B2: Lucius Mummius had his first command against the Lusitanians, fighting in an uprising that ended when what Roman general treacherously had many of them massacred in 150 B.C.?

(SERVIUS SULPICIUS) GALBA

18. Dēscrībāmus nunc proprietātēs dictiōnum in hāc sententiā: “Apud Helvētiōs longē nōbilissimus fuit et dītissimus Orgetorix.” In quō gradū comparātiōnis sunt adiectīva “dītissimus” et “nōbilissimus”?

(IN GRADŪ) SUPERLĀTĪVŌ

B1: Dā positīvōs gradūs verbī “dītissimus,” et sine et cum contractiōne.

DĪVES and DĪS

B2: Give the form that is often used as the superlative of the indeclinable adjective meaning “worthy.”

FRŪGĀLISSIMUS

19. What type of people might follow the golden wand of a god with the epithet “Cyllenian” to their new home, where two Cretan lawgivers and Aeacus together passed judgment on whether they should inhabit Elysium or Asphodel?

(THE) DEAD // DEAD (PEOPLE) // (DEAD) SOULS [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Give Hermes’ title as a guide of souls.

PSYCHOPOMPOS / PSYCHOPOMPUS / PSYCHOPOMP / PSYCHAGOGUE

B2: Which of the Islands of the Blessed, rationalized by later writers as laying in the Black Sea near the mouth of the Danube, was home to the immortalized heroes of the Trojan War, including Achilles?

WHITE ISLAND // LEUKE (NESOS)

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20. What poet, whose last poem is a fictional epitaph addressed by a deceased woman to her husband, wrote a funeral ode for Augustus’ adopted son Marcellus and a poem where he is visited by the ghost of his lover, Cynthia?

(SEXTUS) PROPERTIUS

B1: In Propertius 1.19, the poet says that he no longer fears death now that he has found Cynthia and compares himself to what hero of the Trojan War, who is the focus of Catullus 68 along with his wife?

PROTESILAÜS

B2: In the last poem of the Monobiblos, Propertius refers to a relative whose “sad bones are covered by no earth” after his death in the Perusine War, which occurred near what home region of Propertius?

UMBRIA

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