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This is the Poetry test for 1991. 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 32 questions

1. Troianus equus altior arce erat.

2. Nolite ___ sine pecunia, puellae.

3. Fortitier:fortissime:: ____: optime

4. "Dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide, tantum posse nefas? The best translation of sperasti is:

5. Quintus Horatius Flaccus multa scripsit ad Augusti imperium ____.

6. The Furies had pursued Orestes for his crime of matricide.

7. Cum Iason vellus aureum peteret, multos casus passus est.

8. "Tell me, wise prophet, the meaning of the sign." said Odysseus.

9. Horace died within a few days of his patron Maecenas.

10. Gaius Iulius Caesar appellatus est _____.

11. Filius speravit patrem litteras ___.

12. Gladius oratori est.

13. Rege servato, cives gaudebant.

14. Scipio Hannibalem, ___ clarissimum, vicit.

15. Si tempestas accidisset, tuti non fuissemus.

16. Ianua ____ ad Tartarum ducit noctes atque dies patet.

17. Fatus haec, orator e rostro discessit.

18. Magister _____ persuasit ut iter facerent.

19. Let the games begin!

20. Coloni Tyrii, ducti a regina Didone, carthaginem migraverunt.

21. A SUPPLIANT, from the Latin word supplex, means one who:

22. The words quasi, VELUT, and CEU are used to introduce what figure of speech?

23. A monument built by Augustus to celebrate an Empire without civil strife is the:

24. The fasti, METAMORPHOSES, and TRISTIA were all written by the poet:

25. Pelagus, AEQUOR, and PONTUS were used by the Romans to describe:

26. The metrical patatern of "Nunc ad te et tua magna, pater, consulta revertor" is:

27. Poets frequently make use of diminuitives in their works. Which of the following is an example of a diminuitive?

28. At the root of the words congregation, EGREGIOUS, and GREGARIOUS is the latin noun meaning:

29. A Latin expression used to caution one in a hurry is:

30. The Sibyl led Aeneas to visit his fahter in:

31. Calliope, Erato, and Terpsichore were all daughters of:

32. All of the following abbreviations are related to expressions of time except;