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This is the Prose test for 1985. 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. Aediles _____ praeerant.

2. Ne _____ frustra!

3. Negotio confecto, mercator home navigavit.

4. Numerus coniuratorum in dies crescit.

5. Whose daughter was carried off by the King of the Underworld?

6. Cerberus erat canis triceps _____ portam Orci custodiebat.

7. Mulier pulchra in speculo herself admirabatur.

8. Fortasse coniurati metuebant ne Cicero consilium _____.

9. Multi ad forum orationis _____ causa venerunt.

10. Omnes cives _____ liberati sunt.

11. Augures credebant aves volantes futura would predict.

12. Hortensius began to speak more quickly when he saw that the crowd was becoming restless.

13. Cicero senatores hortatus est ut mortem Catilinae _____.

14. Nemo est qui Cassandrae _____.

15. _____, serve, ad me togam virilem.

16. Tria milia _____ ab imperatore conscripta sunt.

17. The tourists come to Rome to see the forum. Which answer CANNOT be used to translate the underlined words?

18. Reading is an enjoyable way to spend a rainy afternoon.

19. Daedalus gave the wings he had made to Icarus, his son.

20. Liberi viam prope flumen _____ constituerunt.

21. Two characters in Greek mythology who were rewarded by Mercury and Jupiter for respecting the guest-host relationship were:

22. The fasces were carried by public servants called:

23. The road which can be seen in the Forum Romanum is the Via _____.

24. During the press conference the candidate made an odious statement which had serious consequences.

25. The phrase novus ordo seclorum, found on the U.S. dollar bill, means:

26. The Romans would have written the date April 5th as:

27. The meaning of the Latin root in the English word candor is:

28. The story of Rome's beginnings has been told by the historian:

29. The death of Crassus in 53 B.C. at the Battle of Carrhae marked the end of the

30. King Phineas told _____ the secret which enabled him to pass through the Symplegades, the clashing rocks which guarded the entrance to the Black Sea.

31. Cicero and ____ are two Roman authors who reveal much about their times through their letters.

32. On his way to the city of Thebes, _____ proved to be the only one able to solve the riddle of the Sphinx.

33. The Roman Republic actually came to an end in 31 B.C. at the Battle of Actium when Marc Antony was defeated by:

34. The Titans who were overcome by the cohorts of Olympian Zeus were punished by being imprisoned in:

35. Caesar, SCIPIO, and CICERO are all: