Keartamen 4 (K4) - Finals
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0. Note to players: A description is acceptable. What sort of scene includes one where a giant ant plays an electronic drum set, a silent meal inside a New York shawarma restaurant, J. Jonah Jameson leaking footage doctored by the late Mysterio, and a man driving in the New Mexico desert towards a crashed hammer, Mjölnir?
MARVEL (POST-)CREDIT SCENES [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
B1: In a post-credits scene in Thor: The Dark World, what astrophysicist sees a portal appear on her London balcony and finds Thor outside?
(DOCTOR) JANE (FOSTER)
B2: In a post-credits scene in Thor: Ragnarok, the Grandmaster attempts to placate the citizens of what trash planet by declaring the revolution a draw?
SAKAAR
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1. Note to players: A description is acceptable. What cultural process was summarized by Horace’s quote “ferum victōrem cēpit,” advanced by a three-man 155 B.C. embassy for which Gaius Acilius translated, heavily opposed by Cato as cēnsor, and caused Mars to be identified with Ares?
HELLENIZATION [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
B1: Translate Horace’s lines “Graecia capta ferum victōrem cēpit et artīs / intulit agrestī Latiō” into English.
CAPTURED GREECE CAPTURED HER SAVAGE VICTOR AND BROUGHT ITS ARTS TO RUSTIC LATIUM [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
B2: The classic study of Hellenization is Alien Wisdom by what Italian scholar, probably the greatest classicist of the 20th century?
(ARNALDO) MOMIGLIANO
2. What emperor appointed Geminius Chrestus as praetorian prefect and established a cōnsilium of 16 senators that included the historian Cassius Dio, though true power was held by the jurist Ulpian and his mother, Julia Mamaea?
ALEXANDER SEVERUS // SEVERUS ALEXANDER
B1: What other emperor had killed Julia Mamaea’s husband when Mamaea’s mother and sister led a revolt in favor of Mamaea’s nephew?
MACRINUS
B2: According to Herodian, Mamaea grew so jealous of what woman, Alexander Severus’ wife, that she executed her father and had her exiled to North Africa?
(GNAEA SEIA HERENNIA) SALLUSTIA (ORBA BARBIA) ORBIANA
3. According to Hyginus, an escape from what people was almost ended prematurely at Zminthe by the priest Chryses, who wanted to return their stolen statue to Thoas before he was convinced otherwise by the fleeing Orestes and Iphigeneia?
TAURI(ANS)
B1: Hyginus says that after returning from the Taurians, Orestes would have killed what daughter of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra if Diana had not rescued her and made her a priestess in Attica?
ERIGONE
B2: The natives of what city in Attica claimed that their statue of Artemis was the one carried off from the Taurians by Iphigeneia, who became a priest there according to Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris?
BRAURON
4. What is the meaning of the Latin noun at the root of Panzer and “paunch” — pantex — plus the Latin words at the root of “alveolus” and a word meaning “the art of making one’s voice seem to come from elsewhere, like a dummy”?
STOMACH / BELLY
B1: The name of what type of stone derives from the Latin word ilia, meaning “guts”?
JADE
B2: What Italian noun derived from pantex means “cured belly of pork”?
PANCETTA
5. What discipline is the focus of Mathēsis by the fourth-century author Firmicus Maternus, who imitated a first–century–A.D., five-book hexameter poem that describes the locus fortunae and was written by Manilius?
ASTROLOGY / ASTRONOMY
B1: Several Romans, including Cicero and Germanicus, translated what Greek author’s astronomical treatise Phaenomena?
ARATUS (OF SOLI)
B2: In Propertius 4.1, Propertius has what astrologer declare that Propertius’ poetic path is ill-advised, since he is really a love-elegist?
HORUS
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6. What Latin verb fits the following clues: it is the root of a genitive singular monoptote that appears in phrases meaning “for form’s sake”; it is the root of a compound adjective meaning “slanderous” that forms its comparative based on the verb’s participle, much like malevolus; it is the root of compound verbs meaning “to bid farewell” and “to foretell”?
DĪCŌ, DĪCERE
B1: What compound of dīcō means “to warn” or “to forbid”?
INTERDĪCŌ
B2: What derivative of dīcō is probably a tetraptote appearing only in the singular, though there exists a single instance of it in the plural?
DICIŌ(NIS)
7. What sort of document, which could include so-called “novellae,” included the Pandecta, the Dīgesta, or works simply called Cōdex, like those of Theodosius II or the emperor Justinian?
LAW-CODE(S) // COMPILATION(S) OF LAW [PROMPT ON “CŌDEX”]
B1: What was the full name for Justinian’s collection of jurisprudential works that included the Cōdex, the Dīgesta, and the Īnstitūtiōnēs?
CORPUS {IŪRIS / JŪRIS} CĪVĪLIS
B2: Around the fall of Rome, what Visigothic king ordered the compilation of a set of laws that became a namesake Cōdex, though it would later be revised by the Breviary of Alaric?
EURIC
8. What name is shared among the son of Hyrië whose supposed suicide made her melt away in tears, a ruler of Colonae whom Achilles strangled with his own helmet-thongs, and a king who left the Ligurians to mourn Phaëthon?
CYCNUS
B1: All three of these men become swans in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, as their shared name indicates. In the Metamorphoses, Nestor says that Cycnus of Colonae is the only man of his generation to be able to “ignore swords,” but compares his abilities to those of what deceased Thessalian?
CAENEUS / CAENIS
B2: Vergil drew heavily on this Cycnus’ legend in his description of which of Turnus’ allies, a son of Neptune “whom no one’s permitted to fell with fire or steel”?
MESSAPUS
9. Translate the following sentence into English: Subitō cōnsilium cēpī ut, antequam lūcēret, ēgrederer.
SUDDENLY I {FORMED / MADE} THE PLAN THAT, BEFORE IT GOT LIGHT, I WOULD LEAVE [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
B1: Why is lūcēret subjunctive with antequam? A description is fine.
SUBJUNCTIVE BY ATTRACTION // ATTRACTED [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
B2: Now translate this sentence, again featuring a subjunctive by attraction, into English: “plūs semper adpetunt nec eōrum quisquam adhūc inventus est, cui quod habēret esset satis.”
THEY ALWAYS SEEK MORE AND NOT ANY OF THEM HAS STILL BEEN FOUND, FOR WHOM WHAT HE WAS HAVING WAS ENOUGH [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
10. What mythological man — over whose body the line “praise melts more rapidly than ice in springtime” is spoken — was the subject of a tragedy by Augustus, was called Mastigophorus, and was the losing man in the Armōrum Iūdicium?
AJAX
B1: What two playwrights wrote an Armōrum Iūdicium?
PACUVIUS and ACCIUS
B2: According to Suetonius, when friends asked Augustus what had happened to his Ajax, Augustus quipped that he had not fallen on his sword, but on what object, since Augustus had destroyed the play?
SPONGE
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11. Sections of what region were represented by one sun-dried and one fire-baked clay lot in a draw rigged for Cresphontes, who invaded it as part of the “third crop” in the “return of the Heraclids” to the so-called “island of Pelops”?
PELOPONNESE (PENINSULA) // PELOPONNESUS // PELOPONNESIAN (PENINSULA)
B1: Through the rigged draw, Cresphontes gained rule of what choice region in the southwestern Peloponnese and expelled the descendants of Nestor from Pylos?
MESSENIA / MESSINIA
B2: Through the rigged draw, Cresphontes outmaneuvered what two sons of his deceased brother, Aristodemus?
PROCLES and EURYSTHENES
12. What author ended a line with the strange apocope “endō suam do,” used a bizarre tmesis to describe a shattered brain with “saxō cere comminuit brum,” imitated Homer’s genitive ending -oeo, coined the word taratantara, and overly alliterated?
(QUINTUS) ENNIUS
B1: Please scan Ennius’ line “Cives Romani tunc facti sunt Campani.”
SSSSSS // HOLOSPOND(A)IAC
B2: Ennius’ instances of apocope, in which he strangely drops the last syllable of a word at the end of a line, are cited in Ausonius’ Technopaegnion. Please translate these three lines from that work into English, knowing that “endō suam do” means the same as “domum”:
Unde Rudīnus ait “dīvum domus altisonum cael”?
et cuius dē mōre, quod addidit, “endō suam do”?
aut, dē fronde loquēns, cūr dīcit “pōpulea frōs”?
FROM WHERE DOES {ENNIUS // THE RUDIAN // HE OF RUDIA} SAY “THE SKY, THE {DEEP / HIGH}-SOUNDING HOME OF THE GODS? AND AFTER WHOSE CUSTOM DID HE ADD “TO (THE) HOME”? OR, SPEAKING ABOUT A LEAF, WHY DOES HE SAY “A LEAF OF POPLAR”?
13. What kingdom, a ruler of which said pūblicānī had enslaved so many people that he could not help fight the Cimbri, allegedly had its town of Prusa designed by the aged Hannibal and its ruler Prusias before both died near Nicomedia?
BITHYNIA
B1: Hannibal had helped Prusias by winning a series of victories over what ruler of Pergamum?
EUMENES II (OF PERGAMUM)
B2: In the 2nd-century B.C., successive rulers of Bithynia engaged in constant quarrels with various Cappadocian rulers, who all had what regnal name?
ARIARATHES
14. What two-letter ending ends Latin nouns meaning “a paneled ceiling,” “the gods’ cushioned couch,” “the spur on a rider’s heel,” plus a derivative of exemplum meaning “an ideal model” and other neuter nouns shortened from an adjectival stem?
-AR
B1: What plural noun with a similar formation literally means “belonging to the ankles” but came to mean “winged shoes”?
TĀLĀRIA
B2: What word with a similar formation means “brothel”?
LUPĀNAR
15. What work, which claims “vīta vigilia est” and enabled the Renaissance reidentification of the Laocoön statue group with its excursus on art history, was finished during a naval commandership whose fatal effects left its 37 books unrevised?
(PLINY THE ELDER’S) NĀTŪRĀLIS HISTORIA
B1: What English author of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, often called the “Venerable,” quotes extensively from Pliny’s Nātūrālis Historia?
BEDE
B2: What author’s Collēctānea Rērum Memorābilium draws primarily from Pliny’s Nātūrālis Historia?
(GAIUS) JULIUS SOLINUS
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16. What praenomen was held by a man whose failure to appear before Cincinnatus led Gaius Servilius Ahala to kill him and a man whose proposal of Rome’s first agrarian law led him to be killed for seeking kingship — Maelius and Cassius?
SPURIUS
B1: Livy compares the stories of Maelius and Cassius, both killed for supposedly seeking kingship, to what fourth–century–B.C. Republican hero, who was killed when supposedly aspiring to kingship by freeing Roman debtors?
(MARCUS) MANLIUS CAPITOLINUS
B2: In addition to their execution by various means, what additional posthumous punishment was endured by all three adfectātōrēs rēgnī, according to Livy? A description is fine.
(THEIR) HOUSES WERE DESTROYED [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
17. What could one quantify with a hēmīna, some cyathī, a sextārius, or a quārtārius, the last of which has a function close to a similar-sounding English word?
VOLUME / CAPACITY (OF {LIQUIDS / DRY GOODS}) [ACCEPT ANSWERS INDICATING ANY LIQUID OR DRY GOOD, SUCH AS WINE OR CORN]
B1: Give either the Latin word for “peck” that was comprised of 16 sextāriī or the Latin word for “gallon,” made up of 6 sextāriī, that was abbreviated c..
MODIUS or CONGIUS
B2: How many cyathī made up a sextārius?
12
18. What man — who was saved from being a scapegoat for the Achaeans by Cytissorus, his grandson — had children killed by his wife Themisto, accidentally murdered his son Learchus, and cheated on his wife Nephele?
ATHAMAS
B1: After murdering Learchus, Athamas asked the Delphic oracle to settle where wild beasts did what action? A description is fine.
WHERE WILD BEASTS WOULD {ENTERTAIN HIM // TREAT HIM HOSPITABLY} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
B2: Athamas at one point tried to sacrifice Phrixus to Zeus atop what mountain, leading him to nearly be sacrificed by the Achaeans to the same god as a scapegoat?
(MOUNT) LAPHYSTIUS
19. What author imagined a child who fell asleep and woke up fifty years later in Sexagēsis, wrote a series of 700 epigrammatic biographies called Hebdomadēs or Imāginēs, and authored Dē Linguā Latīnā and Dē Rē Rūsticā?
VARRO OF REATE // VARRO REATINUS
B1: Varro’s Dē Rē Rūsticā is dedicated to what woman, his wife?
FUNDANIA
B2: What 76-book work by Varro contains dialogues on moral themes, such as Cūriō dē Cultū Deōrum, Pius dē Pāce, and Marius dē Fortūnā?
LOGISTORICĪ / LOGISTORICA
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20. What activity — said to be conducted by the “indoctī doctīque” — can olet lucernam if it takes too long, is delayed by the labor limae, is the subject of a furor or cacoethes, and may have a lāpsus calamī or two?
WRITING (A BOOK / POEM / CERTAMEN)
B1: What Latin preposition is used in English to cite a scholarly work at second hand, essentially meaning “in the writings of”?
APUD
B2: Give the Latin word that fills in this rhyming Latin saying, written by a monk at the end of a medieval manuscript: “nunc scrīpsī tōtum prō Chrīstō, dā mihi [blank].” It might also be rendered “nunc scrīpsī tōtum, prō Chrīstō dā mihi [blank].”
PŌTUM
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