Keartamen 5 (K5) - 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 book, the best-known publication of Margaret Wise Brown, describes “a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush,” is set in the “great green room,” and involves a child bidding farewell to various objects before sleeping?

GOODNIGHT MOON

B1: What work, written by Eric Carle and perhaps the highest-selling picture book of all time, describes a protagonist who eats an increasing quantity of fruit for each weekday?

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

B2: What picture book focuses on a boy named Max who dresses in a wolf suit?

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

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

1. Differentiate in meaning between the verb saepiō and the verb sapiō, the former often being synonymous with cingō or circumdō and the latter often being synonymous with sapiēns esse.

SAEPIŌ = (I / TO) {FENCE IN // SURROUND / ENCLOSE / ENVELOP / HINDER // DRESS UP} and SAPIŌ = (I / TO) {HAVE TASTE // TASTE OF // HAVE GOOD TASTE // FEEL // BE WISE // KNOW / UNDERSTAND} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What is the meaning of the transitive Latin verb sānō, a synonym of medeor?

(I / TO) HEAL / CURE / REMEDY // MAKE HEALTHY [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: What is the meaning of the Latin verb sarciō?

(I / TO) PATCH / MEND / REPAIR [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

2. In what direction would one travel to find the supposed location of the island of Thūlē and a region where Apollo spent the winter months, with the latter’s name of “Hyperborea” saying it stood in the direction of Boreas’ winds?

NORTH

B1: Homer opens the Odyssey with Poseidon feasting with what people, whose name means “burnt face,” at the eastern and western ends of the world, though historically they lived in the very south of classical civilization?

(A)ETHIOPIAN(S) / AETHIOPES

B2: In Book 11 of the Odyssey, Homer describes what people living at the far western edge of the world near the entrance to Hades, so covered by mists and clouds that the sun never shone on them?

CIMMERIAN(S) / CIMMERIOI

3. What author complains that Chastity left the earth after the Golden Age, says the virtuous are “like black swans,” and asks “who will guard the guards themselves” in his incredibly misogynistic sixth satire?

(DECIMUS JUNIUS) JUVENAL(IS)

B1: The poem, despite being only one of Juvenal’s 16 satires, runs on so long that it fills the entire second book of his poems. How many books of his poems were there in total?

FIVE

B2: In the poem, Juvenal says that the senator’s wife Eppia ran off to Egypt with a gladiator and even abandoned what lover, an actor whom Domitian later had executed?

PARIS

4. In what region did a usurper’s treasurer kill a usurper when Allectus overthrew Carausius, just as Clodius Albinus sought the throne with troops pulled from Glevum, Eboracum, and Londinium?

(ROMAN) BRITAIN // BRITTANIA

B1: Usurping was a favorite pastime in Britain, including by Magnus Maximus. Magnus successfully became emperor before being defeated by what emperor, who also defeated the usurpers Arbogast and Eugenius?

THEODOSIUS {I // THE GREAT}

B2: The last usurpation in Britain occurred in 407 A.D., when a common soldier was declared emperor. What imperial name did he take, being the third emperor to call himself such?

CONSTANTINE (III) // CONSTANTINUS

5. What field was the focus of the math-based work Canon, which outlined the evolution from the kouros to the works of Polyclitus and Myron with the Doryphoros and the Diskobolos?

SCULPTURE / STATUE / (BODILY) PROPORTIONS [PROMPT ON “ART”]

B1: An important moment in the transition from archaic to naturalistic forms was in a bronze statue of a man of what occupation that was dedicated at Delphi by the Sicilian tyrant Polyzalus?

CHARIOTEER

B2: What modern English term refers to the fact that classical sculpture was decorated with a variety of colors, rather than the pure white that we often see today?

POLYCHROME / POLYCHROMY

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6. Carefully read the following passage, an adaptation of Cicero’s criticism of Verres, which I will paste into the chat. You will have one minute to read it through before I ask the question. Please answer in English:

Quid ego de Marcello loquar, de Flaminino, de Mummio, qui urbes pulcherrimas atque ornatissimas atque plenissimas rerum omnium ceperunt? Quorum domus, cum honore ac virtute florerent, signis et tabulis pictis erant vacuae; at vero urbem totam templaque deorum omnesque Italiae partes illorum donis ac monumentis exornatas videmus. Quae ex templis religiosissimis per scelus abstulit, ea nos videre nisi in domo suo non possumus.

The question: According to Cicero, the Roman people cannot see the objects that Verres criminally took from the temples, because they are in what place?

IN {HIS / VERRES’} (OWN) HOUSE

B1: What use of the subjunctive is florerent?

(CUM) CONCESSIVE

B2: In this portion of the speech, Cicero uses the word diciō to describe the effects of the conquests of Marcellus, Flamininus, and Mummius. What is the meaning of this word, which appears only in the oblique singular cases?

POWER / SWAY / RULE / AUTHORITY / DOMINION

7. What group disregards a guest’s vision of blood-soaked walls and sees an errant ox-hoof throw by Ctesippus while enjoying a delivery by Melanthius and Philoëtius, whose goods let them once more exploit Odysseus’ riches?

PENELOPE’S SUITORS // SUITORS IN THE ODYSSEY [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: The disguised Odysseus is allowed to partake in this feast after he defeats what Ithacan beggar in a fight?

IRUS / ARNAEÜS

B2: Just before the feast, Penelope prays to Artemis and asks for death rather than marriage to a suitor. She compares herself to what man’s daughters, for whom Aphrodite was finding brides before the Harpies snatched them away and handed them to the Furies?

PANDAREÜS

8. Note to moderators: The word “victuals” is pronounced like “vittles.” From what Latin verb do we derive “viands” and “victuals” — surprisingly spelled V-I-C-T-U-A-L-S — as well as “vital” and “survive”?

VĪVŌ / VĪVERE

B1: A similar strange pronunciation can be found in what English verb meaning “to formally accuse of or charge with a serious crime”?

INDICT

B2: Note to moderators: The word “viscount” is pronounced like “vye-count.” From what two Latin words do we derive “viscount” — surprisingly spelled V-I-S-C-O-U-N-T?

{VĪCE / VĪCĪS} and {EŌ / ĪRE}

9. What event, commemorated in the phrase “Calabrī rapuēre,” occurred in Brundisium in 19 B.C. and nearly caused Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca to burn the text of the Aeneid, as its author’s will required?

DEATH OF VERGIL // VERGIL’S DEATH [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Vergil’s epitaph, supposedly self-composed, reads: “[blank] mē genuit, Calabrī rapuēre, tenet nunc Parthenopē.” What town fills in the blank?

MANTUA

B2: What language was used for the celebrated modernist novel The Death of Vergil, as well as a short story where Gregor Samsa’s surprising transformation reflects elements of Apuleius’ Asinus Aureus?

GERMAN / DEUTSCH

10. What name was shared by a ruler killed while plundering Bel’s temple near Susa and one opposed by the nationalist Jewish revolt of Judas Maccabaeus, the former of whom lost at Magnesia as he tried to expand Seleucid lands?

ANTIOCHUS

B1: One bonus on each, then. At what site in Greece did Manius Acilius Glabrio defeat Antiochus III in 191 B.C., with a small Roman force under Cato the Elder able to outflank the Seleucids in the pass?

(BATTLE OF) THERMOPYLAE

B2: Antiochus IV went by what Greek epithet meaning “God Manifest,” though his enemies called him by a nickname roughly meaning “Maniafest” for his erratic behavior?

EPIPHANES

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11. What function is served by the enclitic -nam and the enclitic -met, by adding ipse to another pronoun like in the phrase “in eum ipsum locum,” and by placing an unexpected word at the start of a Latin sentence?

EMPHASIS / INTENSITY [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Another way to create emphasis is with what literary device where two words are unnaturally separated by a word or phrase, as in Cicero’s phrase “duās ā tē accēpī epistulās heri.”

HYPERBATON

B2: What three-letter ending derived from ipse was sometimes added to suō for emphasis?

-PTE

12. What hero was the father of Hippolochus and Isander, who was killed while fighting the Solymi to balance out his prior good luck with Iobates, taming Pegasus, and killing the Chimera?

BELLEROPHON(TES) / HIPPONOÜS

B1: In one Byzantine source, Bellerophon was given the same lineage as what man, who elsewhere emerged from Medusa’s severed head as the brother of Pegasus, further connecting the hero’s story to the horse?

CHRYSAOR

B2: According to Hesiod, Pegasus was so named because he was born at the pegai, or “springs,” of what river?

OCEANUS (RIVER)

13. What letter ends the most common Latin word for “child’s rattle,” replaces -em to form the accusative singular of Greek nouns like hērōs, and ends second declension neuter plurals like the word for “weapons”?

(SHORT) A

B1: What Latin word, ending in -a and plural only like crepundia, means “city walls”?

MOENIA

B2: What is the meaning of the Latin noun exta, also a plural-only word?

ENTRAILS / BOWELS / (INTERNAL) ORGANS

14. What foreign man took advantage of the “mōs partium et factiōnum” and a populace he termed “vēnālis,” at least according to a monograph that was often paired with the Bellum Catilīnae and was written by Sallust?

JUGURTHA

B1: Name Sallust’s largest work, which covered the years from 78 B.C. to 67 B.C. but was left unfinished at his death.

HISTORIAE / HISTORIES

B2: What man from that period is represented in Sallust’s Histories as writing a letter accusing the Romans of attacking all other nations because of their unceasing pursuit of wealth and power?

MITHRIDATES (VI / EUPATOR // THE GREAT)

15. Note to players: There will be a simpler version of the sentence after it is read twice. Translate into English this sentence, adapted from Aeneid 8: “Cum albō fētū in lītore cōnspicitur sūs.” That’s “cum albō fētū in lītore cōnspicitur sūs.” Rephrased, it would be “porca, cum līberīs albīs, in lītore spectātur.”

A {SOW / PIG}, WITH ITS WHITE {OFFSPRING / BROOD / CHILDREN}, IS {SPOTTED / SEEN} ON THE {SHORE / BANK} (OF THE RIVER) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: The original version of Vergil’s line read as follows [paste the following]: PROCVBVITVIRIDIQVEINLITORECONSPICITVRSVS. Due to syntactic ambiguity caused by the lack of punctuation, one ancient commentator briefly considered the humorous possibility that what sort of animal is spotting something on the shore?

(MALE) BEAR / HE-BEAR

B2: The commentator Servius criticized his colleague Donatus for misreading an appositive-heavy sentence, ambiguous when written in scrīptiō continua, in Aeneid 2. Please translate that sentence, giving either Servius’ correct or Donatus’ incorrect version. You have 45 seconds after I paste: [paste the following]: INVENIOADMIRANSNVMERVMMATRESQVEVIROSQVECOLLECTAMEXILIOPVBEM

I FIND, {ADMIRING, A (GREAT) NUMBER // ADMIRING THE GREAT NUMBER}, (BOTH) {MOTHERS / WOMEN} AND MEN, A {CROWD / PEOPLE / YOUTH} GATHERED {FOR EXILE [SERVIUS] // FROM TROY [DONATUS]} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

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16. What emperor — after his passionate affair with a freedwoman from Asia Minor caused family strife — made a freedman, the fleet admiral at Misenum, build a self-collapsing boat to assassinate his mother, Agrippina the Younger?

NERO

B1: What freedman — the sole survivor of Claudius’ ruling trio with Narcissus and Callistus — was dismissed at the start of Nero’s reign before Nero had him assassinated in 62 A.D. to gain access to his fortune?

PALLAS

B2: What man reportedly inherited Nero’s freedman Sporus, whom Nero had taken as his wife, before claiming the throne after he heard that Galba would replace him in his position with Cornelius Laco?

(GAIUS) NYMPHIDIUS (SABINUS)

17. What crime — which was unknowingly committed by the father of the Arcadian woman Harpalyce and a Thracian king who married an Athenian before becoming a hoopoe — was repeatedly done by Cronus until Rhea intervened?

CANNIBALISM // EATING A {SON / CHILD / CHILDREN} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What man was served the flesh of his children by his brother, much as their grandfather Tantalus had served Pelops?

THYESTES

B2: What son of Lycaon was the only one of his fifty sons to be spared after the king served his sons to Zeus?

NYCTIMUS

18. Where might one hear the phrases “meā culpā, meā culpā, meā maximā culpā,” “dōnā nōbīs pācem,” “in nōmine patris, et fīliī, et spīritūs sānctī,” and “tē Deum laudāmus”?

(CHRISTIAN / CATHOLIC) CHURCH / CHAPEL // (CATHOLIC) PARISH // (CATHOLIC) MASS [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Translate the Latin phrase “Glōria in excelsīs Deō et in terrā pāx hominibus bonae voluntātis,” which Catholics recite during one portion of their mass.

GLORY TO GOD IN {THE HIGHEST // THE HEIGHTS} AND ON EARTH PEACE TO {PEOPLE / HUMANS / MEN} OF GOOD {WILL / DESIRE} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Give either of the first two first-person verbs in the prayer that contains the “meā culpā.” The prayer is commonly known by the first: “[Blank] Deō omnipotentī et vōbīs, frātrēs, quia [blank] nimis cōgitātiōne, verbō, opere, et omissiōne.”

CŌNFITEOR or PECCĀVĪ

19. What major author was born “when both consuls fell [at Mutina],” “reached the shore where Sarmatian and Getic bowmen unite” when a “wounded prince ordered [him] to Tomi on the Black Sea,” per a poem in his Tristia?

(PUBLIUS) OVID(IUS NASO)

B1: The same line, “cum cecidit fātō cōnsul uterque parī,” appears in an elegy by Lygdamus, whose poems to Neaera appear alongside Sulpicia’s in the collected works of what Latin author?

(ALBIUS) TIBULLUS

B2: Some have seen Sulpicia’s literary lover, Cerinthus, to really be what friend of Tibullus because their names both mean “horned,” one in Greek and one in Latin?

CORNUTUS

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20. Participants in what sort of events routinely committed the crime of ambitus, used fuller’s chalk to give a dazzling white sheen to their togae candidae, and competed to become aedīlēs, praetōrēs, and cōnsulēs?

(CONSULAR / MAGISTERIAL) ELECTION(S) / CAMPAIGN(S)

B1: What sort of enslaved person was an indispensable aid for a candidate as he greeted voters in the forum and streets?

NŌMENCLĀTOR(ĒS)

B2: A set of lēgēs tabellāriae, the first proposed in 139 B.C. by the tribune Aulus Gabinius, introduced versions of what electoral measure to crack down on ambitus, or electoral bribery?

SECRET BALLOT [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

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TB1: What poet uses the phrase “atavīs ēdite rēgibus” to describe a patron who died two months before him in 8 B.C., was addressed in his iambic collection of Epodes, and dominates his Odes?

HORACE // (QUINTUS) HORATIUS (FLACCUS)

B1: Horace’s Epistles, also addressed to Maecenas, contain a special letter describing the practice of writing poetry. What is the Latin name for this poem?

ARS POĒTICA // EPISTULA AD PĪSŌNĒS

B2: Horace’s first Epode, dedicated to Maecenas, plays on what style of poem in which the author wishes the addressee a prosperous voyage?

PROPEMPTICON

TB2: A Latin adjective with what meaning is the ultimate root of “sexton” and “obsecration,” just as another is at the ultimate root of “saint” and “sanctuary”?

HOLY / SACRED / HALLOWED

B1: What single English adjective meaning “most holy” has halves derived from each of those two Latin adjectives?

SACROSANCT

B2: What two-word Latin phrase was used to refer to the inside of the Temple in Jerusalem?

SĀNCTUM SĀNCTŌRUM

TB3: What sort of person, by virtue of his iūs vītae necisque and his status as suī iūris, maintained total control over all his agnātī with his dominica potestās and his patria potestās?

PATERFAMILIĀS [PROMPT ON “PĀTER” OR “FATHER”]

B1: Under Roman law, a paterfamiliās gained control over his wife with a cum manū marriage. Give the Latin term for any of the three types of marriage that fell in this category.

CŌNFARREĀTIŌ or COĒMPTIŌ or ŪSUS

B2: What Latin term refers to an adoption where a paterfamiliās placed himself under the power of another paterfamiliās?

ADROGĀTIŌ / ARROGĀTIŌ

TB4: What is the meaning of the Latin noun trāmes — derived from trānsmeātus — as well as the meaning of the Latin noun strāta, the Latin noun iter, and the Latin noun vīa?

ROAD / WAY / PATH / COURSE / FLIGHT / JOURNEY / STREET / GOING-THROUGH [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What is notable about a street called an angiportus, since it is particularly angustus?

(VERY) NARROW [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: What is notable about a street called a clīvus? A description is fine.

SLOPED // ON A SLOPE (EITHER UPWARD OR DOWNWARD) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

TB5: According to Pindar, what youth hosted his uncles Pheres and Amythaon — sons of Cretheüs — in the city of Iolcus before his half-uncle Pelias sent him to fetch the Golden Fleece?

JASON

B1: Jason’s other half-uncle, uninvolved in his story, was what twin brother of Pelias?

NELEUS

B2: In two accounts, Pelias killed what young brother of Jason as the Argonauts were on their quest?

PROMACHUS