Keartamen 4 (K4) - Preliminary Round 3

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 character, whose significant other is named Celia Mae, helps his significantly larger counterpart foil Randall’s plan to use a new “Scream Extractor” to capture children’s terror to power the city of Monstropolis?

{MIKE / MICHAEL} WAZOWSKI

B1: In Monsters, Inc., Mike bonds with what appropriately-named human girl after she sneaks into the company factory?

BOO

B2: In the prequel Monsters University, James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski both join what fraternity?

OOZMA KAPPA

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

1. Quod animal — quod dormiēns numquam tītillandum est, secundum sententiam scholae Hogvartēnsis — nōmen suum dat flāvicomō Lūciī fīliō quī inter Slytherīnōs habitat et Harriō Potterō repugnat?

DRACŌ / DRACO

B1: The spell acciō means “to summon.” What other Latin word also means “to summon,” but implies a sense of actually fetching somebody that acciō does not?

ACCERSŌ / ARCESSŌ / ACCERSERE / ARCESSERE

B2: In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lupin uses the spell ferula to splint a broken bone. What is the meaning of the Latin noun ferula?

FENNEL (PLANT / STALK) // STAFF / WHIP / ROD / REED [PROMPT ON “FERULE”]

2. The names of what god’s children — who included Phanus, Staphylus, and the Chian king Oenopion — sometimes reflected his primary domain, which he ruled with the thyrsus that was also carried by his maenads?

DIONYSUS

B1: Dionysus was sometimes said to be the father of what minor god, who personified procreation and pursued Lotis?

PRIAPUS

B2: Staphylus’ daughter Rhoeo was a lover of Apollo, with whom she had what son, whose daughters were also associated with Dionysus?

ANIUS

3. What author imitated a curse on Apollonius Rhodius in one poem, left a 12-book poem precisely half-finished by only describing holidays from January through June, and described “changed forms” in his Metamorphōsēs?

(PUBLIUS) OVID(IUS NASO)

B1: What work of Ovid had its first book composed during his voyage to exile in Tomi?

TRĪSTIA

B2: What poem of Ovid is told from the perspective of a tree that complains about people throwing stones at it?

NUX

4. What ideology was supported literarily by Salutius Secundus, was rejected by Gratian in a dispute over the Āra Victōriae with Symmachus, and was revived under the emperor Julian in his apostasy of the Christian faith?

(HELLENISTIC / NEOPLATONIC / IAMBLICHAN) PAGAN(ISM) // POLYTHEISM // NEOPLATONISM // HELLENISM [PROMPT ON “ANTI-CHRISTIANITY” OR EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What usurper in the Western Roman Empire re-allowed pagan cults at Rome, but was defeated alongside Arbogast at Frigidus River by the forces of Theodosius I?

EUGENIUS

B2: What ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire increased penalties for paganism, arranged the assassination of Aspar, and appointed Anthemius to the throne of the Western Roman Empire?

LEO {I // THE GREAT // THRAX // THE THRACIAN}

5. Of the words “appoint,” “pungent,” “acupuncture,” and “puny,” which derives not from pungō but from post and nāscor, since it originally referred to someone “born late” or “born small”?

PUNY

B1: What adjective derived from pungō means “evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret”?

POIGNANT

B2: What Spanish word, sometimes used colloquially in English, developed directly from the past participle of nāscor?

NADA

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6. What cardinal direction would one primarily travel to go from Lambaesis to Deva, from Utica to Mogontiacum, from Hippo Regius to Augusta Treverorum, and from Alexandria to Byzantium?

NORTH

B1: What modern-day city was called Glevum in Roman Britain?

GLOUCESTER

B2: What city in Roman Britain is today called St Albans?

VERULAMIUM

7. Note to players: A description is acceptable. What action, anger over which occasioned Anticleia’s seduction by Sisyphus, caused the death of the Aventine Hill’s monstrous pre-Roman inhabitant — Cacus — and a dispute between Apollo and the young Hermes?

CATTLE THEFT // STEALING COWS [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS; PROMPT ON “{THEFT / STEALING}” OR SIMILAR BY ASKING “OF WHAT?”]

B1: What woman refused to consummate her marriage with her husband until he avenged the death of her half-brothers in a Taphian cattle raid?

ALCMENE

B2: The only of Alcmene’s half-brothers to survive was what youth, who was too young to participate in the fighting?

LICYMNIUS

8. Say in Latin using only four words: “They do not even know what they do not know.”

{ETIAM NESCIUNT // NEC SCIUNT} {QUID / QUAE NESCIANT // QUOD / QUAE NESCIUNT}

B1: Translate into English this sentence, which is adapted from Cicero: haec est maxima hominis sapientia, nōn arbitrārī sēsē scīre quod nesciat.

THIS IS THE GREATEST WISDOM {OF / FOR} A {MAN / HUMAN}: {THAT ONE / HE DOES NOT THINK // TO NOT THINK} THAT {ONE KNOWS // HE KNOWS} WHAT HE DOES NOT KNOW [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Translate into English this quotation from Ennius: “Quī ipse sibi sapiēns prōdesse nōn quit, nēquīquam sapit.”

(HE) WHO, (ALTHOUGH / BEING) WISE, {CANNOT // IS NOT ABLE TO} {HELP / BENEFIT} HIMSELF, IS WISE {IN VAIN} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

9. What Latin author inspired the poetic forms of Marvell’s “Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” and Keats’ poem about a nightingale, fulfilling the boast “exēgī monumentum aere perennius” that he made in his Carmina, or Odes?

HORACE // (PUBLIUS) HORATIUS (FLACCUS)

B1: Horace inspired a genre of poetry with what two-word Latin name, such as Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”?

CARPE DIEM

B2: What English monk adopted the pen name Flaccus while at Charlemagne’s court, where he was the foremost scholar?

ALCUIN (OF YORK)

10. What city — although it defeated the sambūca and employed claw-like cranes that lifted ships from the water — fell to the so-called “sword of Rome” in 211 B.C., ending Archimedes’ life and Greek self-rule in Sicily?

SYRACUSE

B1: What Syracusan general defeated the Mamertines around 265 B.C., earning such popularity that he reigned as tyrant for half a century?

HIERO (II) // HIERON (II)

B2: What tyrant of Syracuse invaded Africa in 310 B.C. and hired the Mamertines in 289 B.C.?

AGATHOCLES (OF SYRACUSE)

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11. What body of water, whose shores were inhabited by the Mossynoeci and the Mariandyni, was entered via the Symplegades, or “Clashing Rocks,” by a group that eventually reached Aeëtes’ kingdom of Colchis on its eastern end?

{BLACK / EUXINE} SEA

B1: Before entering the Symplegades, the Argonauts sent what sort of bird through them to ensure passage was possible?

DOVE

B2: While in the Black Sea, the Argonauts also encountered the Chalybes, a tribe known for their trade in what material?

IRON / STEEL [PROMPT ON “METAL”]

12. What third principal part is shared between Latin verbs meaning “to tremble in fear” and “to feed” — respectively, paveō and pāscō — which follow the same paradigms as caveō and crēscō?

PĀVĪ

B1: What third principal part is shared between Latin verbs meaning “to shine” and “to mourn”?

LŪXĪ

B2: The Latin verb frīgeō is sometimes said to have the third principal part frīxī, which it would share with what Latin verb with what meaning?

FRĪGŌ / FRĪGERE = (TO / I) ROAST / FRY / PARCH

13. What author’s “amputātae sententiae” and asymmetric literary style of inconcinnitās evoked the writing of Thucydides, after whom he patterned the Historiae and the monograph Bellum Iugurthīnum?

(GAIUS) SALLUST(IUS CRISPUS)

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

AMITERNUM

B2: Sallust partly blames the decline of the Republic on the mōs of what two groups? You can answer in Latin or English.

(MŌS) PARTIUM ET FACTIŌNUM // {PARTIUM / PARTĒS} and {FACTIŌNUM / FACTIŌNĒS} // {(POPULAR) PARTIES // PARTIES (OF THE PEOPLE)} and FACTIONS (OF THE SENATE)

14. What Latin noun — which fills in the blank in the phrase finis coronat [blank] and Vergil’s quote “hoc [blank], hic labor est” — forms Latin’s compound adverb for “greatly” and appears in the abbreviation s.o.s.?

OPUS / OPERE

B1: In April of 2016, Michael Kearney launched a terrible blog called “Hic Labor.” The blog lasted precisely nine days. His only substantive blogpost was titled “How to Write a Latin Letter.” Per the blogpost, what Latin verb would appear twice in the abbreviation that often began a Roman letter?

VALĒS / VALEŌ / VALĒRE

B2: The hallmark of the blog was a quote of the day, of which the first naturally was Vergil’s “hoc opus, hic labor est.” In the following bonus, you will receive the eight remaining quotes of the day and their authors. You will have a total of one minute to match each quote to its author after they are pasted into the chat.

1: “Silent enim lēgēs inter arma.”
2: “Ignōrantī, quem portum petat, nūllus suus ventus est.”
3: “Crēscit amor nummī, quantum ipsa pecūnia crēscit.”
4: “Caeca invidia est.”
5: “Acta est fābula, plaudite.”
6: “Mediō tūtissimus ībis.”
7: “Dīmidium factī quī coepit habet.”
8: “Bene curris, sed extrā viam.”

Authors: Livy, Juvenal, Augustus, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Augustine, Horace, Cicero.

1 = CICERO; 2 = SENECA THE YOUNGER; 3 = JUVENAL; 4 = LIVY;
5 = AUGUSTUS; 6 = OVID; 7 = HORACE; 8 = AUGUSTINE

15. What sort of place — which was centered around a praetorium in both its aestīva and hīberna versions — contained the triāriī, hastātī, and their centuriōnēs whenever the legiōnēs were away from home?

(ROMAN) CAMP(S) / FORT(S) / FORTRESS(ES) / CASTRA / CASTRUM

B1: During the time of the Second Triumvirate, Augustus controversially installed the Praetorian Guards’ camp within what legal boundary that surrounded the city of Rome?

PŌMĒRIUM

B2: What primary east–west–running road in a Roman camp would be bisected by the cardō, which ran north-to-south?

DECUMĀNUS (MAXIMUS) // (VIA) DECUMĀNA

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16. What type of sentence, which is approximated by Terence’s “quīn accipis” or Cicero’s “[ōrātor] audierit aliquid, lēgerit ... sit mihi tīnctus litterīs,” is expressed by a form like mementō or by forms like dūc or mitte?

COMMAND / IMPERATIVE / DIRECTIVE / EXHORTATION / (CO)HORTATIVE / JUSSIVE / ORDER

B1: Give the third-person plural, future active imperative of amō.

AMANTŌ

B2: Translate Plautus’ sentence “at tū nē clam mē comēssēs prandium” into English.

BUT YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE {EATEN (UP)} THE LUNCH {BEHIND MY BACK // WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE // WITHOUT ME KNOWING // UNKNOWN TO ME} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

17. In the Iliad, what god becomes a chalcis bird atop Mount Ida’s summit, helps Thanatos carry the lifeless body of Sarpedon to Lycia, and assists Hera by causing Zeus to slumber, since he personifies sleep?

HYPNOS

B1: Hypnos did not agree to help Hera until she promised him Pasithea, a member of what group, as a bride?

GRACES / CHARITES

B2: Hypnos caused Zeus to slumber upon which of Mt. Ida’s three peaks, according to the Iliad?

(MOUNT) GARGARUS

18. What academic discipline, whose personification appears to the jailed author in the best-known work by Boethius, is addressed in Dialogī and Epistulae Mōrālēs of Seneca the Younger, as well as reworkings of Aristotle by Cicero?

(MORAL) PHILOSOPHY

B1: A person with what occupation should be “a diligent student of philosophy,” according to a 10-book, Augustan-era manual?

ARCHITECT(URE)

B2: The personification of philosophy in Boethius’ Dē Cōnsōlātiōne Philosophiae was anticipated by Martianus Capella’s personification of what concept in an encyclopedia where she marries the god Mercury?

PHILOLOGY / PHILOLOGIA

19. What type of person might make a sulcus to produce segetēs if they are working to arāre, an act often done in an arvum or in an ager?

FARMER / PLOW(S)MAN

B1: What was the Latin word for “bean”?

FABA

B2: Define the noun falx.

FALX = {SICKLE / HOOK / REAPING-HOOK / PRUNING-HOOK / SCYTHE}

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20. What emperor augmented Claudius’ harbor at Ostia with a sheltered hexagonal basin, promoted the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, built Rome’s last and largest imperial forum, and raised a column marking wins over Dacia?

TRAJAN // (MARCUS ULPIUS) TRAIANUS

B1: Trajan also built a basilica inside his imperial forum that was known by what name?

(BASILICA) ULPIA

B2: In building his sheltered basin, Trajan enlarged what town, which was established by Claudius to provide relief to the overfull city of Ostia?

PORTUS

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