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30 Cards in this Set
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Curia
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Meeting place for the Senate
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Temple of Vesta
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Location of the sacred flame of Rome
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Dactyl
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Spondee
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Dactylic Hexameter
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Epic meter
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Carinae
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Hull of the ship (Synecdoche)
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Tectum
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Roof (Synecdoche)
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Tenuere
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They held (Synecdoche)
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Moriamur
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Let us die
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Conabatur
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He was trying
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Conspicatus
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Having caught sight of
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Dicta
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Having been said
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Vidisset
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When he had seen
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Iuberet
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To order
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Amavisse
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To have loved
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Missa est
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She was sent
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Rubicon
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The river Caesar crossed in declaration of war
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Tiber
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River that runs through Rome
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Temple of Jupiter
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Center of Roman state religion
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Hannibal
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Carthaginian leader
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Scipio
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Roman leader
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Carthago delenda est
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Carthage must be destroyed (Anaphora)
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Hadrian's wall
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End of Roman territory in Britain
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Masada
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Fortress where the Jews made their last stand against Rome
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Lesbia
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Catullus's muse/great love
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Etruscans
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Predecessors to the Romans
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Lucretia
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Rape victim, caused the expulsion of the kings
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Tarquinius Superbus
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Last king of Rome
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Livy
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Roman historian
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Cicero
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Roman orator
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