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This is the Prose test for 1981. Please get out a number two pencil and step back and punt.

Be advised that some questions may not appear; these questions need to be fixed. I have excluded them until they are corrected. Some of these include questions which have multiple answers as well as older questions for which I need to create a map.

A total of 35 questions

1. Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates, king of Pontus.

2. Propter his courage senatus coronam civicam Caesari dedit.

3. Ponte Sublicio _____, Horatius ad ripam natavit.

4. Omnes scimus quis urbem Romam founded.

5. Classis Graeca Aulide _____ erat. The Greek fleet was about to sail from Aulis.)

6. Paulo melior means

7. Denique Scipio Africanus _____ potitus est.

8. Iason Argonautas ad Colchidem _____ iussit.

9. When Mercury arrived, Proserpina had already EATEN the pomegranate seeds.

10. Cum sis meus amicus, tuas culpas tamen videre possum.

11. Ariadne dixit se a Theseo had been abandoned.

12. Senatores Romani Catonem _____ contra Catilinam audiverunt.

13. Tullia, filia Ciceronis, _____ carissima erat.

14. Fifty ex navibus Romanis in ancoris remanebant.

15. Discipulus defessus inquit, "Utinam _____!" The weary student said, "Would that I were asleep!")

16. The meaning of idem consul is:

17. Deus _____ Hermes lyram dedit erat Apollo.

18. Non dubium est _____ Roma urbs aeterna sit.

19. Cicero erat orator clarior than hortensius.

20. The waters of the fountains of Tivoli are cool and clear.

21. The Roman official who could exercise the power of veto was the

22. In the southeastern part of Italy, the chief port of departure for Greece was

23. In Rome, a sacred fire was kept ever-burning in the temple of

24. The aerarium, housed in the Temple of Saturn in the Forum Romanum, was the:

25. "Est enim mundus quasi communis deorum domus" is an example of:

26. The Emperor Titus who dedicated the Colosseum in 80 A.D. was a member of the dynasty known as:

27. Cicero's speeches which he delivered "Ad Quirites" were addressed to

28. The two famous survivors of the great mythological flood were:

29. The herb was thought to have a salubrious effect.

30. The Roman soothsayers whose prophecies were based on their examination of the entrails of animals were:

31. The year famous in Roman history recorded as 710 A.U.C. was:

32. Cicero was executed because of the hatred of

33. The deity whose temple was open during times of war and closed during times of peace was:

34. Carthage, Rome's enemy in the three Punic Wars, was located in

35. The twelve giants against whom Zeus successfully waged war were: