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This is the Prose test for 1986. 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. Let us begin magno cum studio.

2. "don'T LOOK AT the Medusa, Perseus," said Hermes.

3. Magister you aedificia antiqua demonstrabit.

4. Aries aureus ___ liberos venit. (The golden ram came to rescue the children.)

5. The best translation of fere omnes is:

6. Hercules erat fortior quam ___.

7. Horatius asked who was willing to defend the bridge with him.

8. The city which granted Archias citizenship was Heraclea.

9. Quod animal est larger?

10. Mali comites ___ vitandi sunt. (We must avoid evil companions.)

11. Paris dixit Venerem esse ___.

12. Vespasian ruled Rome for ten years.

13. Ramo aureo ___, Aeneas ad Avernum descendit.

14. Aegeus thought that his son had been killed.

15. Si Sabinae domi mansissent, non raptae essent.

16. Tiro erat servus Ciceronis, the roman consul.

17. Cicero Catilinam inter senatores ___ vidit.

18. Atalanta surpassed all other mortals in running.

19. Troiani timebant ___ urbs caperetur. The Trojans feared that their city would be taken.

20. Cicero Catilinam ex urbe ___ coegit.

21. The aes, DENARIUS, and SESTERTIUS were all examples of Roman

22. The body of water which is enclosed by Greece, Asia Minor, and Crete is the ___ Sea.

23. When Cicero said, "vixerunt," to announce that the Catilinarian conspirators had been put to death, what figure of speech was he employing?

24. According to the historian Livy, the story of Lucretia and Sextus Tarquinius was of paramount importance in the downfall of the Roman:

25. Ixion, Tantalus, Sisyphus, and the Danaids were all:

26. Commentarii de bello civili is an account of the civil war between:

27. What famous Roman general and statesman achieved his military reputation by clearing the Mediterranean of pirates and defeating King Mithridates?

28. Cicero studied rhetoric on the island of Rhodes. The patron deity of this island was Helios, a Greek god of the:

29. The early history of Rome, ab urbe condita, was written by:

30. Agrippa and Hadrian both played an important part in the construction of the domed architectural marvel called the:

31. Cicero's fourteen orations called the Philippics were written to denounce:

32. The son of Apollo, whom the Romans called ___, dared to bring the dead back to life.

33. A TACITURN person is one who:

34. The pharmacist uses the abbreviation H.S. (hora somni) to instruct a patient to take his medication:

35. The onus probandi rests with the prosecution during criminal trials.