Keartamen 5 (K5) - 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 author wrote the memoir A Moveable Feast and the short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” but was best known for the novella The Old Man and the Sea and the novel The Sun Also Rises?

(ERNEST) HEMINGWAY

B1: Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls describes what conflict that occurred shortly before World War II?

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

B2: In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago continually refers to what man, at one point declaring that he “must be worth of the great [this man] who does all things perfectly?”

(JOE) DIMAGGIO

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

1. What period’s works included the poem Āfrica and the Oration on the Dignity of Man, as well as vernacular works like Decameron, written using finds by Petrarch and other humanists for a classical “rebirth”?

(ITALIAN) RENAISSANCE

B1: What Italian author chose the vernacular instead of Latin for his Discourses on the First Decade of Livy and a work on being an effective ruler?

(NICCOLO DI BERNARDO DEI) MACHIAVELLI

B2: The Renaissance author Ludovico Ariosto coined the term “humanism,” wrote the Plautus-inspired comedy Cassaria, and authored a romantic epic about what man, whose description as furioso echoes Seneca?

ORLANDO / ROLAND

2. What two deities were jointly honored in the Thesmophoria festival and worshipped together as “Kore” and “Mother” in the Eleusinian Mysteries, which reflected one’s grief at the other’s abduction by Hades?

DEMETER and PERSEPHONE

B1: Among those honored in the Eleusinian Mysteries was what hero, the son of Celeüs and the recipient of a winged chariot from Demeter that let him visit many lands?

TRIPTOLEMUS

B2: Another honored at the Eleusinian Mysteries was what deity, perhaps the personification of the ritual cry uttered by those undertaking the Eleusinian procession from Athens?

IACCHUS

3. What sort of person, who might control carbasa or be directed by a gubernātor, is represented in a modern mnemonic acronym to recall nine Latin pronominal adjectives like nūllus and alius — ūnus nauta?

SAILOR / SEAMAN / MARINER

B1: Latin mnemonic acronyms are not just a modern classroom invention. Medieval monks used the mnemonic saligia to recall the seven deadly sins — in order, pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Give the Latin names for any three of these.

SUPERBIA = PRIDE, AVĀRITIA = GREED, LUXURIA = LUST, ĪRA = ANGER, GULA = GLUTTONY, INVIDIA = ENVY, ACĒDIA / ACCIDĪA = SLOTH

B2: The strange form euouae, often called English’s longest word made up only of vowels, is a mnemonic medieval abbreviation for the last six vowels of the “Glōria Patrī” hymn. The last two vowels are from Amen. The other four are the vowels in the last word of what three-word Latin phrase that idiomatically means “forever and ever”?

IN S(A)ECULA S(A)ECULŌRUM

4. What people, despite a late independence bid under Papius Mutilus, were mostly assimilated into Roman society after Papirius Cursor won at Aquilonia to avenge disasters at Lautulae and the Caudine Forks?

SAMNITES

B1: The last sigh of the Samnites came after the Social War at what battle, when Crassus’ victory on the right flank motivated Roman forces to counterattack Pontius Telesinus’ Samnites?

(BATTLE OF THE) COLLINE GATE

B2: After the Romans fully Latinized the Samnites, several Samnite gentēs became politically prominent. One was a gēns whose first notable member was what man, designated consul for the year after Caesar’s assassination, alongside a longtime legate of Caesar?

(GAIUS VIBIUS) PANSA (CAETRONIANUS)

5. What work is set in places like Massilia, the plains of Thessaly, and the battlefield of Dyrrachium, because its ten books narrate the civil war of Pompey and Caesar as imagined by the poet Lucan?

(LUCAN’S) {PHARSĀLIA // BELLUM CĪVĪLE // DĒ BELLŌ CĪVĪLĪ}

B1: The first book of the poem includes a vision of the spirit of Rome at the banks of what river?

RUBICO(N RIVER)

B2: A high-point of the poem occurs in Thessaly, where Erictho conducts what sort of ritual as a form of prophecy?

{NECROMANCY / RESURRECTION} (OF DEAD SOLDIER) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

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6. Dēscrībāmus nunc proprietātēs dictiōnum in hāc sententiā: “Nōn vincere potest quod excēdunt quōs deī amant.” Quod verbum inaequāle est — id est, extrā rēgulam coniugātur — et est in numerō singulārī?

POTEST

B1: Cuius dēclīnātiōnis est nōmen “deī”?

SECUNDAE

B2: Sententia est “Nōn vincere potest.” Dīc mihi sententiam eiusdem significātiōnis et duōrum verbōrum.

{VINCERE / SUPERĀRE} NEQUIT

7. In Rome, surviving buildings first used for what purpose include a Nubian-esque structure designed by Gaius Cestius, the Castel Sant'Angelo, and an edifice inscribed with the Rēs Gestae that celebrated Augustus’ achievements?

TOMB(S) / MAUSOLEUM(S) / SEPULCHER(S) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Cestius’ tomb pyramid is particularly well-preserved because it was incorporated into the defensive walls by what unifying third-century emperor, who crushed a revolt of mint-workers in Rome led by Felicissimus?

AURELIAN

B2: Another tomb incorporated into Aurelian’s walls was that of Eurysaces, a freedman with what occupation?

BAKER / MILLER

8. In early Latin, what feeling was expressed by the independent subjunctive use of ut or utī, like in classical Latin with utinam, which essentially replaced verbs like cupiō or volō, velle?

OPTATIVE / WISH(ES) / WANT(S) / DESIRE(S) // WOULD THAT // IF ONLY

B1: Subjunctive forms of volō were often used as an equivalent to utinam. This was especially true with the first-person singular active subjunctive in the present and imperfect. Please give both these forms for volō.

VELIM and VELLEM

B2: The optative subjunctive with utinam is really an evolution of what other use of the independent subjunctive?

DELIBERATIVE

9. What mythological woman — given a slight alteration of her mother’s name with the removal of an “s” in the middle by her father, Metabus — was content with being Diana’s devotee until war forced her to aid Turnus?

CAMILLA

B1: Metabus’ name perhaps comes from a Greek root meaning “to pass to another place,” reflecting how he fled as an exile from what people after they kicked him out of Privernum?

VOLSCI(ANS)

B2: To save Camilla as they fled Privernum, Metabus threw her across what river, whose name Vergil perhaps chose to reflect Camilla’s status as a woman warrior?

AMASENUS

10. What groups — including one called Alaudae and one that was saved by a miraculous rainstorm and called Fulmināta — contained the triāriī, hastātī, and the centuriōnēs of the Roman army?

LEGION(S) / LEGIŌ(NĒS)

B1: Give the Latin name for the standard that was carried by each of Rome’s legions.

AQUILA(E)

B2: The Legiō Alaudae was probably disbanded in 70 A.D. after its failures in the war against what Germanic tribe, which revolted under the leadership of Julius Civilis?

BATAVI // BATAVIAN(S)

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11. Some of what object’s parts have names derived from Latin words meaning “little acorn,” “little key,” and “little mouse,” as well as more obvious diminutives, like auriculus and pediculus?

(HUMAN) BODY

B1: The “malleolus” is a part of the ankle that looks like a miniature version of what type of object, per its derivation?

HAMMER (HEAD) // MALLET (HEAD)

B2: According to its derivation, what small bodily projection looks like a “little grape”?

UVULA

12. What author mocks the “disertissimus Rōmulī nepōtum,” his rival-in-love Quintus Caecilius Metellus, his Bithynian staff commander Memmius, a man from his native Verona, and his once-beloved Lesbia in invectives?

(GAIUS VALERIUS) CATULLUS

B1: What three-word Latin phrase opens Catullus 85, a sort of invective against both Lesbia and Catullus himself?

ŌDĪ ET AMŌ

B2: Catullus 84 mocks Arrius for pronouncing “īnsidiās” as what incorrect form in supposed imitation of Greek?

HĪNSIDIĀS

13. Translate the following sentence from English to Latin using a form of sum: “Fear helps me.” To do that, you need to use two datives, including one like auxiliō.

{TIMOR / METUS} {AUXILIŌ / ŪSUĪ} MIHI EST [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What two-word Latin phrase, with both words in the dative, is often translated “who stands to benefit?”

CUI BONŌ

B2: Now say in Latin, again using a double dative: I fear that these gifts will not be very useful to you.

{TIMEŌ / METUŌ / VEREOR} {UT // NĒ NŌN} HAEC {DŌNA / MŪNERA} {VALDĒ / MAGNŌ} ŪSUĪ TIBI SINT [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

14. What sort of creature pursued the Olenian princess Mnesimache until an intervention by Heracles, who unwisely hired one at the Evenus river as a ferryman, causing Deianeira’s abduction by Nessus?

CENTAUR

B1: During his hunt for the Erymanthian boar, Heracles stayed with the civilized centaur Pholus. In the chaos caused by wine-maddened centaurs, how did Pholus die? A description is fine.

DROPPED ONE OF HERACLES’ HYDRA-BLOOD-VENOM ARROWS ON HIS FOOT (AFTER WITHDRAWING IT FROM A CENTAUR’S CORPSE AND WONDERING HOW SO SMALL A THING COULD KILL SO LARGE A CREATURE) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Heracles pursued the defeated centaurs to what location in the southern Peloponnese, according to Apollodorus?

(MOUNT / CAPE) MALEA(S))

15. What verb — whose common archaic future stem ending of “-cs” became one of “-x” — has its passive provided by a different, short verb, essentially meaning “to become” or “to be made”?

FACIŌ / FACERE

B1: On the Praeneste fibula, long the earliest known example of Latin, faciō displays what process in its perfect tense, found classically in verbs like currō?

REDUPLICATION / REDUPLICATIVE

B2: The pattern that forms faxim survives classically in what form of a semi-deponent verb?

AUSIM

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16. What emperor introduced new auxiliary units called numerī, built a temple to his predecessor’s wife Plotina, and met his Bithynian lover Antinoüs in his travels, where he also started building a British wall?

HADRIAN

B1: Hadrian built a city on what river honoring Antinoüs when he died there, perhaps by drowning or ritual sacrifice?

NILE (RIVER)

B2: As part of his travels, Hadrian built what new temple in the suburb of Hadrianopolis at Athens?

PANHELLENION [REJECT “PANHELLEION”]

17. According to legend, what gift was the source of electrum and Croesus’ wealth after it was granted for entertaining Silenus and transformed the river Pactolus’ sands when Midas washed it off?

MIDAS TOUCH // (MIDAS’) GOLDEN TOUCH

B1: Croesus was the legendary ruler of what kingdom, through whose capital of Sardis flowed the river Pactolus?

LYDIA

B2: According to Hyginus, not all of Midas’ mineral wealth derived from his gold, since he also supposedly discovered two varieties of what other metal?

LEAD

18. What activity, which “laetificat cor hominis” and might begin with the word “prosit,” completes Horace’s poetic phrase “nunc est” and can require so-called “aqua vītae” or an “arbiter bibendī”?

(GOOD) DRINKING / TOASTING (WINE / ALCOHOL / LIQUOR / BEER)

B1: What two-word Latin phrase idiomatically means “over drinks” and literally means “between cups”?

INTER PŌCULA

B2: What company long had the slogan “nunc est bibendum,” meaning its mascot is now named “Bibendum”?

MICHELIN

19. In a Latin pun, what author likens his literary target to a “wolf” before he dies of indigestion under the judgment of a concilium deōrum, which dominates the first of his 30 books of early Roman satires?

(GAIUS) LUCILIUS

B1: Lucilius’ Satires targeted the aptly named Lentulus Lupus. The fragments of his first book of satires suggest it contained a fish banquet, punning on the alternate meaning of lupus as “wolf-fish.” Juvenal probably drew on this scene for his fourth Satire, when what emperor calls a council to decide how to cook a giant turbot-fish?

DOMITIAN

B2: In choosing his target’s name, Lucilius likely drew on the attacks on the “wolf-walker” Lycambes by what Greek author, who also inspired the form and style of Horace’s Epodes?

ARCHILOCHUS (OF PAROS)

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20. What war, which caused the Lūdī Apollinārēs to be founded and women to be restricted from displaying wealth in the Lēx Oppia, gave access to silver from Hispania with victories at Baecula and Ilipa by Scipio Africanus?

SECOND PUNIC (WAR)

B1: The Second Punic War effected great social, economic, and religious changes in Rome. Among these was the import of the cult of what goddess, renamed the Magna Māter, to inspire the gods to end the war in 204 B.C.?

CYBELE / CYBEBE

B2: What law was enacted during the Second Punic War in a partial attempt to secure private vessels for use in the war, as well as check the rapid accumulation of wealth by the ruling class?

LĒX CLAUDIA (DĒ NĀVE SENĀTŌRIS)

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