Keartamen 4 (K4) - 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 movie’s lines include “death smiles at us all — all a man can do is smile back,” “at my signal, unleash hell,” “brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity,” and “my name is Maximus Decimus Meridius”?

GLADIATOR

B1: What four-word phrase does Maximus twice shout after killing a gladiator, after which he declares “is this not why you are here”?

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

B2: Please give Maximus’ full speech to Commodus that begins “my name is Maximus Decimus Meridius.”

MY NAME IS MAXIMUS DECIMUS MERIDIUS. COMMANDER OF THE ARMIES OF THE NORTH. GENERAL OF THE FELIX LEGIONS. LOYAL SERVANT TO THE TRUE EMPEROR, MARCUS AURELIUS. FATHER TO A MURDERED SON, HUSBAND TO A MURDERED WIFE — AND I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE, IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT. [DO NOT ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

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

1. Translate the following sentence from Latin to English: moderātōrēs nōn putāvērunt solum ūnum hominem sententiam intellēctūrum esse.

THE MODERATORS DID NOT THINK THAT {ONLY ONE PERSON / HUMAN // ONE PERSON / HUMAN ALONE} WOULD UNDERSTAND THE SENTENCE [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Now, say in Latin using a gerundive and the word lustrīx: We should loudly praise that player.

ILLA LUSTRĪX NŌBĪS {CLĀRĒ // (CUM) MAGNĀ VŌCE // MAGNĀ (CUM) VŌCE} LAUDANDA (EST) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Now say in Latin using fore and ut: The moderators hope that the players better enjoy these sentences.

MODERĀTŌRĒS SPĒRANT FORE UT {LŪSŌRĒS / LUSTRĪCĒS} {MELIUS / MAGIS} HĪS SENTENTIĪS {FRUANTUR / ŪTANTUR} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

2. What creature, conceived on the island of Crumissa as the child of Poseidon and Theophane, appeared at Nephele’s behest to carry the condemned youth Phrixus to Colchis on its gleaming back?

GOLD(EN) RAM // GOLDEN-WOOLED RAM // CHRYSOMALLOS

B1: After Phrixus arrived to Colchis, Aeëtes married what daughter of his to Phrixus?

CHALCIOPE / IOPHOSSA / EUENIA

B2: Poseidon took Theophane to Crumissa to get away from her suitors. He later turned the suitors into what type of animal when they arrived to Crumissa and slaughtered the locals, whom Poseidon had turned into herds of cattle?

WOLF / WOLVES

3. What Roman general — who hosted such lavish feasts that his name has become an English byword for “luxurious” — imported the apricot and the cherry-tree from Armenia, where he defeated Tigranes the Great in 69 B.C.?

(LUCIUS LICINIUS) LUCULLUS

B1: Two years later, what tribune passed legislation that removed Lucullus from his command against Mithridates and passed a law granting Pompey an extraordinary command to deal with piracy?

(AULUS) GABINIUS

B2: Name the Galatian tetrarch who assisted Lucullus against Mithridates in 73 B.C. and was later defended in court by Cicero after he supposedly conspired to assassinate Julius Caesar.

DEIOTARUS

4. Whose “opificium” is examined in the earliest literary work by the author Lactantius, who inspired a philosophical work about his “cīvitās,” or “city,” that was written by Augustine to defend Christianity?

GOD / DEUS

B1: Lactantius’ best-known work is titled for what sort of “dīvīnae” things, since it sought to systematize Christian doctrine in the same way that legal doctrine was systematized at the time?

ĪNSTITŪTIŌ(NĒS) / INSTITUTE(S) / INSTITUTION(S)

B2: Some of the material in the first half of Augustine’s Dē Cīvitāte Deī derives from what author’s Adversus Nātiōnēs?

ARNOBIUS (THE ELDER // AFER // OF SICCA)

5. What Latin word — which fills in the blanks in the quotes “reddite quae sunt [blank] [blank] et quae sunt Deī Deō” and “aut [blank] aut nihil” — lies at the root of the Russian emperor’s title, “tsar”?

CAESAR / CAESARIS / CAESARĪ

B1: The phrase “Caesar nōn suprā grammaticōs” was supposedly coined when the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund unsuccessfully tried to declare that the word schisma, which he had misgendered, would henceforth be known by his erroneous gender. What is the correct gender of the Greek loan-word schisma?

NEUTER

B2: A few years later, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III coined what five-letter abbreviation as a motto that meant “all the world is subject to Austria”?

A.E.I.O.U. // A.E.I.O.V.

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6. What mythological man, the duke in both Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, had a ship that was the subject of a paradox on identity after he returned from Minos’ labyrinth?

THESEUS

B1: What video game has Theseus and the Minotaur as the bosses of its third dungeon, Elysium?

HADES

B2: What author included “The Garden of Forking Paths” and a short story told from the Minotaur’s perspective, “The House of Asterion,” in his collection Labyrinths?

(JORGE LUIS) BORGES

7. What people, whose homeland resembled “a shield on the water,” learned that a god might encircle their city with a mountain range if they ignored Nausithoüs’ warnings but still gave safe-passage to shipwrecked sailors like Odysseus?

PHAEACIAN(S) / SCHERIAN(S)

B1: Alcinoüs and his wife, Arete, had also protected what couple from their pursuers by saying they could stay if they were already married, then contriving to marry them immediately?

JASON and MEDEA

B2: According the Odyssey, the Phaeacians once carried Rhadamanthys to Euboea to visit whom, then returned on the same day?

TITYUS

8. What general region, where peasant groups called bacaudae revolted and a short-lived rebel empire sprang up under Postumus and Tetricus, was the site of the defeat of Attila at the Catalaunian Plains, today called Châlons?

GAUL / GALLIA

B1: What emperor was hailed as restitūtor after defeating the revolt of Tetricus at another battle at Châlons?

(LUCIUS DOMITIUS) AURELIAN(US)

B2: In 383 A.D., soldiers in Britain proclaimed what man as emperor, after which he invaded and captured Gaul?

MAGNUS MAXIMUS

9. Carefully read the following passage, which I will paste it into the chat. You will have one minute to read it through before I ask the question. Please answer in English:

Marcus Antonius, in funere Iulii Caesaris, habuit orationem magnam et quae facile populum moveret. “Non venio huc,” inquit, “ut vos moveam ad iram, sed ut vos doceam quantus fuerit ille vir. Fuit beneficiis ac munificentia magnus — fuit mansuetudine et misericordia clarus — in animum induxit laborare, vigilare, negotiis amicorum intentus sua neglegere.” Tum aperuit Antonius vulnera Caesaris, ut vulgus irasceretur contra Marcum Brutum. “Hic,” inquit, “est caesus Caesar, qui vos salutavit et vos amavit.”

The question: Antony contradicts himself when he opens the wounds of Caesar for what purpose, which he said he was not coming to do?

MOVING {THEM / YOU // THE CROWD} TO ANGER (AGAINST MARCUS BRUTUS) // ANGERING {THEM // THE CROWD} (AGAINST MARCUS BRUTUS) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Antony originally declares that he did not come to move the crowd to anger, but to do what?

TEACH (THEM) HOW GREAT A MAN {HE / CAESAR} {IS / WAS}

B2: Translate the sentence “in animum induxit laborare, vigilare, negotiis amicorum intentus sua neglegere” into English.

HE HAD TAKEN IT TO MIND TO WORK, TO REMAIN ALERT, TO NEGLECT HIS (OWN) {THINGS / BUSINESS}, (SINCE HE WAS) INTENT ON {THE BUSINESS / THINGS} OF (HIS) FRIENDS [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

10. What author criticized fellow writers’ “libīdō adsentandī” and vowed to write “sine īrā et studiō” in the prefaces to two works, one of which gave an account of the Flavian dynasty and the other of which was called Annālēs?

(PUBLIUS / GAIUS CORNELIUS) TACITUS

B1: At the end of the prologue of the Historiae, Tacitus says that he has reserved the reigns of what two emperors for a work of his old age? He ultimately died before being able to do so.

NERVA and TRAJAN

B2: Give the first line of Tacitus’ Annālēs, which is uniquely a line of dactylic hexameter.

URBEM RŌMAM Ā PRĪNCIPIŌ RĒGĒS HABUĒRE

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11. Based on their Latin etymologies, what class of things includes one that “belongs to rain,” one that is a “bone-breaker,” one that is “golden,” and one whose name mutated from the phrase avis praedae?

BIRD(S) [PROMPT ON “ANIMAL(S)” OR SIMILAR]

B1: What type of bird had a name that was originally thought to derive from the Latin words for “bone-breaker,” like “ossifrage,” but more likely comes from the phrase avis praedae?

OSPREY

B2: What type of bird is the upupa, whose name lies at the root of the English word “dupe”?

HOOPOE

12. Members of what gēns included Rome’s first pontifex maximus and the taker of Politorium, the latter of whom also built the Tulliānum and a saltwater port at Ostia while serving as Rome’s fourth king?

(GĒNS) MARCIA / MARTIA // MARCĪĪ / MARTĪĪ // MARCIUS / MARTIUS

B1: What member of the gēns Marcia proposed that a gift of Sicilian corn be withheld from the plebeians until they gave up their right to have tribunes, provoking such ire that he was exiled to a nearby town?

(GAIUS / GNAEUS MARCIUS) CORIOLANUS

B2: What member of the gēns Marcia was the first plebeian dictator and censor of Rome?

(GAIUS MARCIUS) RUTILUS / RUTULUS

13. What nymph — like Callisto from the area around Nonacris — fled to the river Ladon to escape an Arcadian god and was transformed by the marsh-nymphs, meaning the god could only fashion the new reeds into panpipes?

SYRINX

B1: Pan became so proud of his pipes that he challenged Apollo to a music contest judged by what mountain god?

TMOLUS

B2: Elsewhere in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, who plays a song on a shepherd’s pipe made of a hundred reeds to try to tempt a woman he describes as “whiter than snowy privet petals” as she lays in her mortal lover’s arms?

POLYPHEMUS

14. What type of object, a pair of which are covered by palpēbrae and are poetically called lumina, must work overtime for someone called cocles and is functionally absent for anyone who is caecus, since they can’t vidēre?

EYE(S)

B1: Give the diminutive of the Latin word oculus.

OCELLUS

B2: Translate Erasmus’ adage “in regiōne caecōrum rēx est luscus” into English.

IN THE LAND OF THE BLIND, {THE ONE-EYED MAN IS KING // THE KING IS (A) ONE-EYED (MAN)} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

15. In a prologue and conclusion, what author contrasts the life-giving first day of spring with the deadly realities of a disease first described by Thucydides, typifying the Epicurean ennui found in his Dē Rērum Nātūrā?

(TITUS) LUCRETIUS (CARUS)

B1: The second book of the Dē Rērum Nātūrā uses what Latin word to refer to a “swerve” of atoms in the universe?

CLĪNĀMEN

B2: The text of the Dē Rērum Nātūrā was transmitted by what two manuscripts, which are named for their shape?

(CŌDEX) OBLONGUS and (CŌDEX) QUADRĀTUS [PROMPT ON “O and Q”]

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16. Mitigating events of what type made Egnatius Rufus popular during Augustus’ reign, because Crassus used them to buy property at cut-rate prices and Nero later used one to build his Domus Aurea after heartlessly fiddling?

FIRE(S) / BLAZE(S) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: The Temple of Pax and the Temple of Vesta were destroyed in a fire in what year A.D., fomenting anger that led to the assassination of Commodus a year later?

191 (A.D.)

B2: In 532 A.D., agitators from two chariot-racing factions set fire to several important buildings in Constantinople in what set of riots, but were crushed by Justinian’s general Belisarius?

NIKA (RIOTS / REBELLION)

17. What man’s grim appearance — including blood-matted hair and thong-pierced, swollen feet — prompts the cry “O, light of Troy” from the dreaming Aeneas, who laments the wounds Achilles inflicted on him at Troy’s walls?

HECTOR

B1: In Book 3 of the Aeneid, Aeneas finds Andromache sacrificing at a cenotaph of Hector outside what city?

BUTHROTUM

B2: Hector’s cenotaph at Buthrotum is located next to a “false” version of what river, which at Troy joined the Scamander outside the city’s walls?

SIMO(E)IS

18. Respondē Anglicē. Quī locus in domō modernā — quī saepe lābrum et magnum speculum et manutergium habet — vocātur balneum aut aliquandō lātrīna?

BATHROOM

B1: What bathroom product does the Lexicōn Recentis Latīnitātis call capitilāvium?

SHAMPOO

B2: What is the primary meaning of the Latin noun solium, which can also mean “tub,” like labrum?

SEAT / CHAIR / THRONE // RULE / SWAY / DOMINION

19. What author — who memorializes the enslaved girl Erotion in a book where he says he will “parcere persōnīs, dīcere dē vitiīs” — wrote the collections Apophorēta and Xenia before publishing his work Epigrams?

(MARCUS VALERIUS) MARTIAL(IS)

B1: What book of epigrams, written for the Colosseum’s opening, was composed independently of Martial’s other works?

LIBER SPECTĀCULŌRUM // (LIBER) DĒ SPECTĀCULĪS

B2: Martial’s epigrams are often constructed around a parting thrust that drives home or overturns the meaning of the poem. What is the three-word Latin phrase for this “parting thrust”?

FULMEN IN CLAUSULĀ

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20. Give the form of the adjective magnus that agrees with the Greek form Epigrammatōn, the syncopated poetic form dīvum, and the fourth-declension form senātuum — all of which are masculine genitive plural?

MAGNŌRUM

B1: Give the genitive plural of the noun sūs, meaning “swine.”

SUUM

B2: Translate this fragment from the mime Laberius into English: dē integrō patrimōniō meō memordī nummum centum mīlia.

{I HAVE BITTEN OFF // I HAVE DEVOURED // I BIT OFF // I DEVOURED} A HUNDRED THOUSAND COINS FROM MY {WHOLE / INTACT / COMPLETE} {INHERITANCE / PATRIMONY} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

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