NDJCL 2024 Certamen

For what Greek is does Virgil use the patronymic form Pelides (son of Peleus?

• Agamemnon

• Achilles

• Ajax

• Aeneas

"Mulierculae" would be the Latin title for what 19th century novel?

• Frankenstein

• Tales of Wonder

• Little Women

• Les Misérables

  
  

Responde Anglice: “Quō annō Octaviānus prope Actium Antōnium Cleopatramque vīcit?”

• 31 B.C.

• 27 B.C.

• 45 B.C.

• A.D. 10

During the Roman Republic what were the two chief executives called?

• Consuls

• Praetors

• Quaestors

• Aediles

Aquilo, Notus, Eurus, Zephyrus, and Boreas can all be classified as what?

• Shining Objects

• Animals

• Places in the Underworld

• Winds

Who are considered the two offspring of Medusa?

• Brontes & Steropes

• Chrysaor & Pegasus

• Stheno & Euryale

• Ceto & Phorcys

“Dabam” is to “dare” as ___________ is to “esse.”

• errabam

• esuriebam

• exibam

• eram

What second king of Rome is said to have organized the priestly colleges and reformed the calendar by fixing the dates of the festivals and adding two months to a ten month year?

• Tarqinius Superbus

• Tarquinius Priscus

• Numa Pompilius

• Tullus Hostilius

Which of the following sentences has the same meaning as the this sentence:

fēmina quam ego vīdī pulchra est

• ego fēminam quae est pulchra vīdī

• ego quae fēminam vīdī sum pulchra

• fēmina quae mē vīdit est pulchra

• quae fēminae ā mē vīsa sunt

What Thracian gladiator led a slave revolt during the late Republic and was conquered by Crassus and Pompey?

• Servilius

• Gaius

• Spartacus

• Germanicus