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in the 6th century BC the first latin inscription is found where?
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the lapis niger
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from the 5th century bc, where do we find this inscription: "Manios me fhefhaked Numasioi"? What is peculiar about it?
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Praeneste Fibula
Written right to left |
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What was found from the 4th century BC on the Quirinal?
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The Duenos Bowl
Duenos me feced-feced |
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lists of magistrates, triumphator
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fasti capitolini
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song of war priests--unintelligible, w/ names like that of Augustus
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Carmen Saliare by Salii, leaping war priests
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Who delivered the apologue of the Belly and the Members to the plebs?
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Menenius Agrippa
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Where were the Fescennine verses from?
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Fescennium in Etruria
or Fascinum--withcraft |
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song of Arval Brethren
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Carmen Arvale
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native professional actors
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histriones
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from what language is the word "histriones"
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Tuscan ister=player
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he introduced the first play with a plot
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Livius Andronicus
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after plays, often combined with Atellan Farce
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exodia
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Atellan Farce acquired from whom?
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Oscans
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in which type of drama did only young men who served in the army act? no professional actors acted
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atellan farce
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dates of Livius Andronicus' life
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ca. 284-204 BC
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Where was Livius Andronicus born
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Tarentum
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father of Latin literature, according to Horace's Epistles and most ancients
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Livius Andronicus
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when was Livius Andronicus captured in Tarentum? Who brought him to Rome?
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272 BC
Livius Salinator |
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Where and when did Livius Andronicus premiere the first Latin tragedy and comedy?
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Ludi Romani 240 BC
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who asked Livius Andronicus to write and perform for the Ludi Romani?
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The aediles
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Who wrote the tragedies Achilles, Aegisthus, Aiax Mastigophorus, Andromeda, Danae, Equus Troianus, Hermiona and Tereus?
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Livius Andronicus
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The comedic fragments from Gladiolus and Ludius are from what author?
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Livius Andronicus
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Who composed intercessory hymns to expiated bad omens from the 2nd punic war to be sung by 27 maidens, on the order of the pontifices? When did he do it?
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207 BC, Livius Andronicus
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According to Festus, who was responsible for allowing poets the ability to offer votives in the temple of Minerva on the Aventine?
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Livius Andronicus
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Who was born 6 years after Livius Andronicus' first play, in 240 BC, and saw him as an old man? Who says this?
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Cato the Elder
according to Cicero |
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dates of Gnaeus Naevius
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ca. 270-201 BC
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Who wrote these fabulae palliatae:
Acontizomenos, Agitatoria, Agrypnuntes, Appella, Tarentilla (the flirt) |
Gnaeus Naevius
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Who wrote these lines, in what play:
alii anutat alii adnictat, alium amat |
Gnaeus Naevius
Tarentilla (the flirt) |
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comedy in Greek dress
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fabula palliata
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comedy in Roman dress
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fabula togata
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fabula cothurnata
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Latin tragedy of Greek setting
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which form of drama derived its name from the high soled boots worn by Greek tragic actors?
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Fabula cothurnata
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comedy in Roman dress
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fabula togata
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Who wrote these fabulae togatae:
Ariolus (soothsayer) and Leon Where did he write them? |
Gnaeus Naevius
in prison |
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who wrote Andromache, Danae, Equus Troianus, Hector Proficiscens, Hesione, Lycurgus, Iphigenia?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Who wrote "Romulus or The Wolf", a fabula praetexta
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Who wrote a fabula praetexta on Scipio's and Metellus' campaigns in Cisalpine Gaul in 222 BC called "Clastidium"?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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play on historical Roman subject
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fabula praetexta
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what poet had an altercation with the Metelli
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Gnaeus Naevius
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How many books was the Bellum Punicum divided into? Who did so?
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seven books, divided by Gaius Octavius Lampadio in 165 BC
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Whose epitaph:
Immortales si foret fas flere flerent divae Camenae Naevium poetam. Itaque postquamst Orchi traditus thesauro, obliti sunt Romae loquier lingua latina |
Gnaeus Naevius
died 201 BC |
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dates of Ennius' life
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239-169 BC
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father of Latin poetry
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Ennius
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poet born in Rudiae in Calabria
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Ennius
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poet claimed descent from king Messapus
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Quintus Ennius
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who said Ennius had 3 hearts?
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Aulus Gellius
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Who brought Ennius to Rome?
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Marcus Porcius CATO the Elder
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Who had the comedic "not home" incident with Scipio Nasica? Where is the story told?
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Quintus Ennius
anecdote in Cicero's De Oratore |
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What poet served in the Roman army in Sicily in 204 BC, where he met Cato the Elder?
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Ennius
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What poet celebrated his friend Scipio Africanus' campaign in his "Scipio"?
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Ennius
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Who accompanied Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, consul in 184 BC, to Aetolia?
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Ennius
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Who wrote the Ambracia? What is it about?
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Ennius
deeds of Marcus Fulvius Nobilior in Aetolia |
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In what book of the Annales does Ennius glorify Marcus Fulvius Nobilior?
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Book 15
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Who got land and full citizenship for Ennius?
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Quintus, son of Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
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Who wrote the "Thyestes" before he died of gout at age 70?
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Ennius
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Who composed this epigram for his portrait:
Aspicite o cives.... Hic vestrum pinxit maxima facta.... |
Ennius
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What poet wrote for his tomb:
Nemo me lacrimis decoret nec funere fletu faxit. Cur? Volito vivus per ora virum |
Ennius
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How many books in Annales
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18 books
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Who wrote the Euhemerus (Sacred History)?
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Ennius
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Who wrote the Sota, Protrepticum, Hedyphagetica, Epicharmus, and Scipio?
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Ennius
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how many lines are preserved from the Annales
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about 600 lines
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In which book of the Annales does Ennius freshly invoke the muse?
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Book 10
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Who wrote this alliteration:
at tuba terribili sonitu tarantara dixit |
Ennius
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According to Cicero, who above all was a follower of Epicharmus?
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Ennius
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Who wrote the fabula praetexta "Sabinae" on the rape of the Sabine women?
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Ennius
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Who wrote the "Sota"
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Ennius
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Who wrote
numquam poetor nisi podager in his six books of satire? |
Ennius
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Who wrote "Otio qui nescit..." in his Iphigenia
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Ennius
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What tragedian was born in Brundisium in 220 BC?
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Pacuvius
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Whose painting was shown in the forum boarium?
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Pacuvius
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According to Cicero, who was first in tragedy?
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Pacuvius
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Who was the younger rival to Pacuvius?
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Lucius Accius
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Where did Pacuvius die?
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Tarentum
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Who was born 170 BC at Pisaurum?
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Lucius Accius
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Name two authors with freedman parents
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Accius and Horace
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According to Cicero, what two writers presented plays to the same aediles when one was thirty and the other eighty?
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Accius and Pacuvius
Accius (30) and Pacuvius (80) |
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Who refused to rise for Julius Caesar Strabo?
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Lucius Accius
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Who sued and won against a mime who mentioned him on stage
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Lucius Accius
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Who wrote "oderint dum metuant" and where?
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Accius, in his Atreus
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Who wrote Tereus, Telephus, Clytemnestra, etc.?
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Accius
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Who wrote the praetexta "Decius" on the battle of Sentinum in 295 BC?
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Lucius Accius
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Who wrote "Aeneadae"
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Accius
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Who wrote "Didascalia", nine books which were "records of the stage"?
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Lucius Accius
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Who wrote a book on the festivals of history entitled "Annales"
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Lucius Accius
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Name two highly regarded early actors
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Aesopus and Roscius
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Who gave Rome its first stone theater, and when?
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Pompey in 55 BC
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What play was performed to inaugurate in 55 BC the first stone theater?
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Accius' Clytemnestra
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In what play were 600 mules led across the stage?
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Accius' Clytemnestra, performed in 55 BC at the inauguration of Pompey's stone theater
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Euripides represented what style of Greek comedy?
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New
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dates of Plautus
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(255-184 BC)
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Who says that Plautus died in 184 BC in his Brutus?
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Cicero
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Where was Plautus born?
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Sarsina in Umbria, near border of Cislapine Gaul
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What early playwright worked in a flour mill and lost money in business?
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Plautus
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Which Plautine play is fragmentary
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Vidularia
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Who compiled the standard list of Platus' twenty one plays
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Varro
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medley of story and song w/ dance and pantomine; no impersonation or plot
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Satura
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stock characters like Maccus and Dossenus were in what type of performance
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Atellan farce
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Which play of Plautus refers to Naevius being in jail
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Miles Gloriosus
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which Plautus play has the line
surge amator, i domum |
Asinaria (the ass comedy)
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Which play of Plautus is the basis of Moliere's L'Avare
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Aulularia
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In which play of Plautus do we find Lyconides?
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Aulularia
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Original model of Plautus' Aulularia
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Menander's Dis Exapaton
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Which Plautus play is unique in that no women are involved?
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Captivi
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in which play of Platus do we find the slave Tyndarus and Philocrates, both captives of Hegio?
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Captivi
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basis of Casina by Plautus
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Kleroumenoi (lost drawers) by Diphilus
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in which Plautus play do the father and the son try to get the same girl, a mad of the father's wife?
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Casina
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In which play of Platus does Alcesimarchus wish to marry his mistress Selenium, but his dad wants him to marry Demipho's daughter?
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Cistellaria: the casket
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Which Plautus play is based on Menander's Synaristosae
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Cistellaria (The casket)
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In which play does a slave steal a soldier's ring which shows the soldier's slave is his sister, forcing the soldier to release the slave to the play's hero?
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Curculio
(who is the original slave) |
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In which play does a craft slave get money from his master's father in order to a buy a girl, twice?
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Epidicus
(who is the crafty slave) |
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basis of Comedy of errors
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Menaechmi
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based on Philemon's Emporos
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Mercator
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In which play does the slave Tranio use devices to keep his master's father away from the house, where the son is having a dinner party?
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Mostellaria
haunted house |
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according to Cicero, what play along with Truculentus was his favorite in old age?
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Pseudolus
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In which play does the titular slave use his wits to free his master's sweetheart from the pimp Ballio?
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Pseudolus
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In Pseudolus, who played the pimp Ballio in Cicero's time?
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roscius
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which Plautus play is set on the North African seacoast
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Rudens (the rope)
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Which play is like Captivi in that there are no females?
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Trinummus
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Which two Plautus plays have no women?
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Trinummus and Captivi
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In which Plautus play can't Lesbonicus offer a dowry for his sister, and Lysiteles doesn't want a dowry?
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Trinummus
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In which play does a young man lose his identity tokesn in a shipwreck?
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Vidularia (the chest)
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which play of Plautus premiered at the Plebeian Games
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Stichus
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Which play of Plautus is unique in that it has no plot
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Stichus
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Which Plautus play has a ruthless girl that corrupts an Athenian gentleman, a soldier, a country youth, and the titular slave?
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Truculentus
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Which Plautus play was based on Menander's Adelphi?
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Stichus
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Which comedian was esteemed by ancient criticism as a peer of Terence and Plautus
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Caecilius Statius
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born in Milan
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Caecilius Statius
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What friend of Ennius was manumitted by his master Caecilius
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Caecilius statius
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according to Cicero, who was a "malus auctor Latinitatis"
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Caecilius Statius
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According to Suetonius' Life of Terence, the aediles required Terence to submit his first play for examination to whom?
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Caecilius Statius
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Who wrote the "Plocium," from which we have his longest fragment of 15 lines?
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Caecilius Statius
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Who was born around 195 BC in Carthage?
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Terence
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Who was brought to Rome as a slave by the Senator Terentius Lucanus
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Terence
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What comedian was brought to the attention of Scipio Aemilianus, joining the Scipionic circle including Laelius, Lucilius, Stoic Philosopher Panaetius?
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Terence
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Who says "Nullumst iam dictum quod non sit dictum prius" and where?
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Terence
Eunuchus |
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modo liceat vivere est spes
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Terence
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senectus ipsast morbus
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Terence
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tacent, satis laudant
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terence
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amantium ira amoris ingratiost
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Terence
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hinc illae lacrimae
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terence
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homo sum, nihil humani...
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terence
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what playwright had his vatican play manuscript illustrated by the actor Lucius Ambivius Turpio?
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Terence
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Who provided the music for Terence's plays?
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Flaccus, slave of Claudius
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which Terence play premiered in 166 BC at the Ludi Megalenses?
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Andria
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Terence's earliest play
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Andria
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Terence play based on Andria and Periertrhion both by Menander
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Andria
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Terence play with Simo, Pamphilus, Philumena, and Glycerium
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Andra
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When did Terence first try to produce Hecyra
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165 BC
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Terence play premiered in 163 BC at Ludi Megalenses
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Hauton Timorumenos
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Terence play with Antipho, Bacchis, Clinia, Antiphila
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Hauton Timorumenos
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In which Terence play is the recognition scene in the middle of the play
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Hauton Timorumenos
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in which play of Terence does Chaerea rape Pamphila
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Eunuchus
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Terence's greatest success
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Eunuchus
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Terence modeled Eunuchus on whom
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Menanader
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Terence play premiered 161 BC at Megalensian games
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Eunuchus
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Which Terence play modeled on Epidikazomenos (Litigant) by Apollodorus of Corystus
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Phormio
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Which Terence play had Phaedria son of Chremes, Antipho son of Demipho in love with Phanium, and a slave who engineers a lawsuit?
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Phormio
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Terence play in which slave engineers lawsuit so his ster Antipho son of Demipho can marry Phanium
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Phormio
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Where and when was Phormio premiered
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161 BC Ludi Romani
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Terence's worst failure
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Hecyra
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Which play did Terence try to perform in 160 BC at the funeral games for Aemilius Paullus, and again at the Ludi Romani of 160 BC?
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Hecyra
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Which Terence play based on Menander's Arbitrants
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Hecyra
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In which Terence play is there the courtesan Bacchis
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Hecyra
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In which Terence play is there a sober discussion on marriage and the double standard for sex
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Hecyra
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Which play did Terence perform at the 160 BC funeral games for Aemilius Paullus after Hecyra failed?
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Adelphi
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In which Terence play do we follow two brothers brought up in an urban vs. rustic setting?
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Adelphi
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In which year did Terence die?
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159 BC
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Who called Terence "puri sermonis amator", lacking "vis comica", etc.
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Caesar in his famous epigram
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Who was "dimidate Menander" according to Caesar
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Terence
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fabula tabernaria another name for what?
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fabula togata
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eldest writer of Fabula Togata
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Titinius
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three writers of Fabula togata
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1. Lucius Afranius
2. Titinius--eldest 3. Titus Quinctius Atta |
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Maccus the clown, Pappus the simpleton, Bucco the fat boy and Dosennus the hunchback all found in what?
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Atellan farce
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two writers of atellan farce
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1. Novius
2. Lucius Pomponius |
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mime without masks
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fabula riciniata
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what empress was herself a mima?
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Empress Theodora
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Who was elder: Decimus Laberius or Publilius Syrus?
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Laberius was older
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Who won in Caesar's contest between Laberius and Syrus
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Syrus won though he was younger than Laberius
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born at Suessa Aurunca
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Gaius Lucilius
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whose sister was the grandmother of Pompey the Great
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Lucilius
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what author served in 134-133 BC with Scipio Aemilianus
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Gaius Lucilius
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mistress of Lucilius
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Collyra
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Who attacked Gaius Metellus Caprarius, praetor designate in 117 BC?
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Lucilius
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Where did Lucillius retire in 105 BC?
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Naples
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Which book of Lucilius does Horace imitate? In the book, where is Lucillius journeying?
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Book 3
Journey to Rheigum |
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Persius' opening "O curas hominum; quantum est in rebus inane" is taken from whom?
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Lucillius
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According to the Life of Persius, Lucilius inspired whom to write satire?
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Horace
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In Book 17 of his Satires, what work does Lucilius parody?
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The Odyssey
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According to Quintilian, who is a venerable oak?
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Ennius
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Who describes Lucillius thusly:
eruditio in eo mira, et libertas atque inde acerbitas et abundantia salis |
Quintilian
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Who wrote an epic on the Istrian war of 129 BC
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Hostius
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Who was called by Cicero "literatissimus togatorum omnium"
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Quintus Valerius of Sora
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Who wrote his one work, Epoptides?
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Quintus Valerius of Sora
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Who wrote in his Epoptides
Juppiter Omnipotens rerum regumque repertor/progenitor genetrixque deum, deus unus et idem |
Quintus Valerius of Sora
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Who wrote the literary criticism work "De Poetis"
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Volcacius Sedigitus
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Who praised Marcus Cornelius Cethegus in his Annales
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Ennius
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earliest literary Roman historian
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Quintus Fabius Pictor
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What early literary Roman historian fought in the 2nd punic war, and was a member of the post-Cannae embassy to Delphi
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Fabius Pictor
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What Roman historian was captured in 209 BC by Hannibal in Sicily, getting to know Hannibal personally?
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Lucius Cincius Alimentus
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Who was the adoptive father of Scipio Aemilianus
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Publius Cornelius Scipio
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Who was an interpreter for the three Greek philosophers who came to Rome
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Gaius Acilius
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in whose work do we find the "greatest generals" conversation between Hannibal and Scipio
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Gaius Acilius
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What historian fought in the 2nd punic war, Thrace, Greece, and Space
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Cato the Elder
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What historian was born in 234 BC
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Cato the Elder
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What year was Cato the elder quaestor in Sicily and Africa
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204 BC
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what year was Cato the elder praetor in Sardinia
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198 BC
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when was cato the elder consul
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195 BC
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when was cato the elder censor
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184 BC
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who engineered a 161 BC expelling all Greek philosophers and rhetoricians from Rome
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Cato the Elder
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who said about the thousand Achaean hostages including Polybius: "it little suits the dignity of the senate to decide whether Greek or Roman undertakers bury the derelicts"
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Cato the Elder
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who was part of an embassy to Carthage in 157 BC
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Cato the Elder
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Who supposedly learned Greek when he was 80 years old
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Cato the Elder
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What two authors wrote Lives of Cato
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Plutarch and Nepos
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Who wrote an encyclopedia to his son on medicine, rhetoric, agriculture, military science and law? What was it called
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Cato the Elder
Ad Filium |
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who said: vir bonus, dicendi peritus
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Cato the Elder
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Who said: Rem tene, verba sequentur
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Cato the Elder
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According to Gellius who wrote a "carmen de moribus"
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Cato the Elder
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oldest extant prose work in Latin literatuere
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extant prose
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who advocates the selling habit, not the buying habit
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Cato the Elder
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in what work by what author do we find a chant for split reeds, dislocated joints: "motas vaeta daries..." and "huat haut haut...."
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De Re Rustica/De Agricultura
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how many books in Cato's Origines
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7 books
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the first book of Cato's origines is about what?
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roman kings
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which historian gives no names but only events?
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Cato the Elder
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Who wrote "thieves who steal from individuals...thieves who steal from the commonwealth" in a letter to his son?
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Cato the Elder
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According to Cato's Origines, who plundered the Lusitanians as praetor in the second punic war?
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Servius Galba
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Who wrote 23+ books on Roman history starting with the sack of Rome by the Gauls, up until his own time?
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Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius
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unreliable historian who makes up stuff, used a lot by Livy
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Valerius Antius
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What 16+ book work was written by Gaius Licinius Macer? Who was his son?
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Annales
son of Gaius Licinius Macer = Calvus |
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according to Cicero, who was easily the best historian up until his time? he was praetor in 78 BC
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Lucius Cornelius Sisenna
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Who along with Marius annihilated the Cimbri in 101 BC? He wrote a memorial of his consulship
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Quintus Lutatius Catulus
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Which consul in 105 BC, a disciple of the Stoic Panaetius, was praised by Velleius Paterculus and exiled for being honest?
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Publius Rutilius Rufus
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3 most competent treatises on oratory
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Cicero, Brutus
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus |
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Who wrote an autobiography depicting his deeds as destiny? He died while borking on Book 22 of the autobiography
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Sulla
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Who roused the Romans to reject negotiations with Pyrrhus?
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Appius Claudius
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What son of Cato the Elder wrote De Iuris Disciplina
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Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus son of Cato the Elder
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Who is the interlocutor in Cicero's De Republica?
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Manius MANILIUS (consul in 149 BC)
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Who wrote Horoi ("Definitions") on the principles and rules of law, as well as 18 books summarizing existing law?
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Quintus Mucius Scaevola
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What ambassador from Pergamum broke his leg in Rome, and stayed on while lecutring on the science of philology?
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Crates of Mallos
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Who introduced critical literary scholarship to Rome
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Crates of Mallos
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first Roman philologer
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Lucius Aelius STILO Praeconinus
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Who taught Cicero and Varro philology
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Lucius Aelius STILO Praeconinus
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Who determiined which were genuine Plautine texts, before Varro?
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L Aelius Stilo Praeconinus
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What consul of 160 BC foretold a lunar eclipse at Pydna (168 BC)?
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Gaius Sulpicius Gallus
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What was the only work preserved from Carthage after the 3rd Punic War?
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Mago's twenty-eight book treatise on agriculture
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The latin version of what book was the only instance of state sponsored literature in Rome
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latin version of Mago's 28 book treatise on agriculture from the fall of Carthage
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full name of Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
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When was Lucretius born
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94 BC (according to Jerome) or 96 BC
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Who was made insane by a love potion, according to St. Jerome?
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Lucretius
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Who edited Lucretius' works?
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Cicero
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Who praised Lucretius' works as genius, and also displaying craftsmanship?
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Cicero in letter to Quintus
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De Rerum Natura starts with an invocation to what goddess?
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Venus
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According to De Rerum Natura Book 5, who "first found out that principle of life which is now called wisdom"?
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Epicurus
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According to De Rerum Natura, what are the sole components of the universe?
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atoms and void
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what author and work
tantum religio potuit suadere malorum |
Lucretius
De Rerum Natura |
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Whom did Lucretius praise as the chief of poets
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Homer
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From whom does Lucretius take his description of the plague at Athens?
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Thucydides
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Who credits "noster Ennius" with introducing poetry to Italy?
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Lucretius
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Who uses antique forms such as -ier, ai, -at for -avit, etc.?
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Lucretius
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What poet elides the final s, a practice called by Cicero "subrusticus"?
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Lucretius
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In which Eclogue does a character sing of Lucretius? Who is the character
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Silenus sings of Lucretius in Eclogue 6
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Who wrote the Erotopaegnia?
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Laevius
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Who wrote elegaics to Leucadia
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Varro of Atax
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Who wrote the Sequanicum, a satire on Caesar's campaign of 53 BC?
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Varro of Atax
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What consul of 102 BC was known for Callimachean epigrams?
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Quintus Lutatius Catulus
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According to Suetonius, who was the leader of the neoteroi?
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Valerius Cato
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According to Suetonius, who was teh "Grammaticus, Latina siren, qui solus legi adc facit poetas"?
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Valerius Cato
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Who wrote the Lydia and Dianna (Dictynna) as well as the Indignatio, a libellus on being an orphan and losing property to Sulla's proscriptions?
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Valerius Cato
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Who was the son of Gaius Licinius Macer, the annalist?
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Gaius Licinius CALVUS
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Who wrote a lament for Quintilia?
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Gaius Licinius CALVUS
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Who wrote an epyllion called Io?
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Calvus
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Who wrote the Zmyrna?
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Cinna
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What poet was mistakenly lynched at the funeral of Julius Caesar?
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Cinna
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Catullus poem which addresses "gentle poet" Caecilius
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Catullus 35
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Who addresses Cornificius in a poem?
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Catullus 38
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Catullus poem: Annales Volusi, cacata charta
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Catullus 36
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What two poets went with Memmius (propraetor) to Bithynia in 57 BC?
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Catullus and Cinna
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Who wrote to Perilla, whose real name was Metella?
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Ticidas
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Dates of Catullus
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84-54 BC
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Who was born 84 BC
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Catullus
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According to Jerome, when was Catullus born?
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87 BC
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When did Catullus come to Rome?
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62 BC, year after Catiline conspiracy (63 BC)
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What urban praetor received Catullus?
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus
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Which two poems does Catullus use Sapphic meter in?
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Poem 51 (He seems god to me)
Poem 11 (Furius and Aurelius) |
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Who might have killed her husband Quintus Caecilius Metellus
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Clodia
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When Catullus returned to Rome, whom did he find as Clodia's new hubby?
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Marcus Caelius Rufus
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Which Catullus poem is an apostrophe to his yacht
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Catullus 4
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Which Catullus poem is an address to Sirmio
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Catullus 31
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How many poems in Catullan corpus
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116
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Which poet wrote a book with 116 poems
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Catullus
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What two friends of Catullus got married, prompting him to write an epithalamion, Catullus 61?
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Vinia Aurunculeia and Manlius Torquatus
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In what meter is Catullus 63, the Attis?
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Galliambics
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wedding of Peleus and Thetis
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Catullus 64
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epithalamion in hexameters for choruses of boys and girls
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Catullus 62
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To whom did Catullus address a translation of Callimachus? What was the work of Callimachus being translated?
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To Hortalus
Lock of Berenice Catullus 65 |
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In 68, Catullus excuses himself from writing a poem for whom, due to the death of his brother?
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Manlius
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In Catullus 84, whom does he lampoon for adding h to the beginning of words?
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Arrius
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Who wrote the Anticatones to counteract Cato's influence?
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Caesar
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Caesar's 45 BC verse account of journey to Spain
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Iter
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Who suppressed Caesar's poetry?
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Augustus
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nephew of wife of Marius
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Julius Caesar
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year of Caesar as quaestor
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68 BC
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at the funeral of Marius' wife, who delivered a eulogy for the Julian gens?
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Caesar, quaestor in that year, 68 BC
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Caesar's year of Pontifex Maximus
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63 BC
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Consulship of Caesar and Bibulus
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59 BC
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Caesar is Praetor
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62 BC
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Year of death of Julia, wife of Pompey and daughter of Caesar
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53 BC
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Pharsalus date
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48 BC
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Thapsus date
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47/46 BC? Check
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Munda date
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45 BC
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Who wrote the eighth book of De Bello Gallico
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Aulus Hirtius
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What tribes did Caesar violate truces with in Gaul
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Usipetes and Tencteri
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Who covers January 49 BC to November 48 BC in his work?
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Caesar, Bellum Civile
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According to whom does De Bello Civile lack revision and veracity?
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Asinius Pollio
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Who probably wrote Bellum Alexandrinum, Bellum Africanum, and Bellum Hispaniense
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Hirtius or Oppius, according to Suetonius
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Who wrote a Dicta, referred to by Cicero as Apophthegmata?
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Caesar
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How many books were in Caesar's De Analogia?
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2 books
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Who wrote, and where, "A far fetched word should be shunned like a rock"
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Caesar De analogia
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To whom did Caesar address the Anticatones
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Cicero
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Early in his career, what general wrote a tragedy on Oedipus
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Caesar
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Early in his career, what general wrote a Praises of Hercules
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Caesar
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Where was Sallust born?
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Amiternum, a Sabine town
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What historian was a tribune in 52 BC and a legatus pro quaestore in 50 BC
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Sallust
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Who expelled, and why, Sallust from the senate in 50 BC?
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The censor Appius Claudius because of a scandal with the wife of Annius Milo
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When was Sallust made quaestor? By whom?
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49 BC, made quaestor by Caesar
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Who served Caesar in Illyria and Campania, and commanded his navy in Africa and Thapsus, and was proconsul of Africa following Thapsus?
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Sallust
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Who acquired Caesar's villa at Tivoli and the Pincian gardens?
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Sallust
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According to antiquity, what was Sallust's masterpiece?
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Historiae
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In what work of Sallust do we find an egalitarian speech of Marius, opposing speeches of Jugurtha and Boccus as well as Marius and Metellus, and the opening speeches of Marius and Memmius?
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Bellum Jugurthinum
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how many books in Sallust's Historiae
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5 books
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period covered by Historiae
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78 to 67 BC
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What work of Sallust covers the wars against Sertorius, slaves, and part of the Mithridatic war?
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The Historiae
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In what work of Sallust are there speeches of M. Aemilius Lepidus, L. Marcius Philippus, C. Licinius MAcer, and C. Aurelius Cotta?
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The Historiae
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In Sallust's Historia to whom does Mithridates write a letter?
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Arsaces
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According to Velleius Paterculus and Hadrian, what author was equal to Thucydides?
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Sallust
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Who wrote two pamphlets to Caesar called the Suasoriae, which urge economic reforms and condemn oligarchs?
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Sallust
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What writer of monographs wrote an invective against Cicero, which is accompanied by Cicero's response?
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Sallust
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Who was born in Po country around 100 BC to an equestrian family?
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Cornelius Nepos
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What friend of Cicero and Atticus wrote a biography of Atticus
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Cornelius Nepos
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Whom did Cornelius Nepos use as his model for the 3 volume Chronica?
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Apollodorus
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What collection of curiosities, tidbits, and anecdotes did Pliny the Elder use heavily? Who wrote it?
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Exempla by Cornelius NEpos
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How many books and pairs are in the De Viris Illustribus by Cornelius Nepos?
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16 books in 8 pairs
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Who added lives of Hamilcar, Hannibal, and Datames as well as updated info on Atticus to the second edition of his work
|
Cornelius Nepos
De Viris Illustribus |
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What remains from Nepos' De Viris Illustriubs
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short life of Cato the Elder
long life of Attiucs lives of 23 non-Roman generals |
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How many books of letters did Cicero address Atticus?
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16 books
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Who wrote the Annalis, a one volume rival to Cornelius Nepos' universal history Chronica?
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Atticus
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Who was born in Reate in Sabine country in 116 BC?
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Varro
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Who was the wife of Varro
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Fundania
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Who studied philosophy at Athens under teh Academic Antilochus of Ascalon?
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Varro
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About whom did St. Jerome say that "he read so much it was a wonder he had time to write"
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Varro
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only extant works of Varro
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Res Rusticae and five incomplete books of De Lingua Latina
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Which work of Varro gives us the most fragments?
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Menippean Satires
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Which work of Varro's has 41 books?
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Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum
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What work did Augustine use for Book 6 of his City of God?
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Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum
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Who wrote a 9-book Disciplinae, an encyclopedia of the liberal arts such as grammar, didactic, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, music medicine, and Architecture?
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Varro
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Varro's work on Geography
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De Ora Maritima
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Who wrote the De Comoedis Plautinis and De Scaenis Originibus in 3 books?
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Varro
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Varro's 15 book work which contained 700 prose portraits and verse eulogiums of famous Romans and Greeks, organized according to profession in systems of sevens?
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Hebdomades vel de imaginibus
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Who wrote the 76 book...
what was it called |
Varro
Logistorica |
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Who wrote a series of philosophical-historical essays in dialogue form called the Logistorica? How many books?
|
Varro
76 books |
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Whom did Varro write his Res Rustica for? How old was he?
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Wrote it for his wife Fundania when he was 80
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Whom is the De Lingua Latina dedicated to?
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Cicero
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How many books of De Lingua Latina survive?
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5 books (5-10, only bks 5 and 6 are complete)
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Who wrote the 3 book De Re Rustica
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Varro
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What friend of Cicero revived Pythagoreanism?
|
Nigidius Figulus
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What Pompeian in Politics, a friend of Cicero, was praetor in 58 BC?
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Nigidius Figulus
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Who taught Antony, Augustus, and Vergil?
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Marcus Epidius
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oldest work on Latin style/rehtoric
|
Rhetoricae ad Herennium
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How many books in the Rhetoricae ad Herennium
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4 books
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Which work, written around 85 BC in 4 books, was commissioned by Herennius?
|
Rhetoricae ad Herennium
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What correspondent of Cicero wrote over 180 books on the law, as well as delivered orations?
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Servius Sulpicius Rufus
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the interlocutor in Cicero's De Republica, he wrote Monumenta, on the legislation of Numa, and Actiones
|
Manius Manilius
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Who wrote the Erotopaegnia
|
Laevius
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As a young man, what orator attended Apollonius Molon's lectures on rhetoric?
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Cicero
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What orator preferred Academics to Stoics and Stoics to Epicureans?
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Cicero
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the grandfather of what triumvir was a famous orator?
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Marcus Antonius, grandfather of Marcus Antonius the triumvir
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younger Scaevola, pontifex maximus whom Cicero saw
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Gaius Mucius Scaevola
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older Scaevola, an augur whose consultations Cicero attended
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Quintus Mucius Scaevola
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In 80 BC, what was Cicero's first important legal case?
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Pro Roscio Amerino
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Who went abroad in 79 BC to hear lectures in Athens and Rhodes?
|
Cicero
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In what year was Cicero quaestor?
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75 BC
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In what year did Cicero successfully prosecute Verres, governor of Sicily from 73-71 BC?
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70 BC
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When was Cicero aedile?
|
69 BC
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When was Cicero praetor?
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66 BC
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When was Cicero consul?
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63 BC
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In what year did Clodius Pulcher exile Cicero?
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58 BC
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In 51 to 50 BC, where was Cicero proconsul?
|
Cilicia
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When was Cicero killed?
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December 43 BC
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What wife did Cicero marry in 76 BC?
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Terentia
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Who were Cicero's children with Terentia?
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Tullia and son Marcus
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In 47 BC, whom did Cicero marry after divorcing Terentia?
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Publilia
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In what year did Cicero leave his second wife after she was insensitive to the death of his daughter Tullia?
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45 BC
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What style of oratory did Calvus perform?
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Atticism
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How many extant speeches do we have of Cicero? How many do we know are lost?
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58 extant speeches
48 known to be lost |
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in 81 BC, Cicero's earliest extant speech: what was it, who was rival counsel?
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Pro Quinctio
Hortensius was rival counsel |
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What case of 77 BC invovled the slave Panurgus and a land claim
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Pro Roscio Comoedo
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How many speeches did Cicero ready against Verres?
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7 speeches
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In which 77 BC speech of Cicero's did he claim the right to appear as prosecutor against Verres, asserting that Hortensius had met his match, though he was taking on an unworthy client?
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Divinatio in Caecilium
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In which speech did Cicero prosecute a Sullan veteran who had destroyed his client's house?
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Pro Tullio
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In which speech of 69 BC did Cicero defend an ex-governor in Gaul from maladministration charges?
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Pro Fonteio
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In which speech did Cicero argue illegal force had been used in opposing his client's attempt to take land which his wife had been a life client on?
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Pro Caecina
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What speech of Cicero, delivered in 66 BC, supported Pompey's command against Mithridates and Tigranes?
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De imperio Gnaei Pompeii
Pro Lege Manilia |
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What speech was also known as the De imperio Gnaei Pompeii
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Pro Lege Manilia
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Cicero's first political speech
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Pro Lege Manilia, 66 BC
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What speech of Cicero, delivered in 66 BC, the same year as Pro Lege Manilia, defended his client against a charge of poisoning?
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Pro Cluentio
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what year was Cicero praetor
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66 BC
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year of Cicero's consulship
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63 BC
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In which speeches, given in the year of his consulship, did Cicero attack a popularis land bill as being impractical and dishonest demagoguery? Who proposed the bill, and who was he acting for?
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Contra Rullum, 63 BC
Rullus, acting for Caesar |
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In what speech did Cicero unsuccessfully defend an aged senator who was charged with having murdered a popular leader 37 years before? Who was the knight? Who instigated his prosecution?
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Pro Gaio Rabirio
Rabirius was the knight Caesar instigated the prosecution |
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What event marked the last two months of Cicero's consulship?
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Catilinarian conspiracy
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What speech did Cicero deliver as consul on November 8 to the Senate?
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first In Catilinam
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Which speech, delivered on November 9 to the senate, is about the proceedings in the senate and the flight of Catiline?
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Second Catilinarian
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Which Catiline speech, delivered December 3, reports the arrest of conspirators who had remained in rome and the evidence found in the hands of the Allobroges?
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Third Catilinarian
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Which Catiline speech, delivered in the senate on December 3, declared that no punishment was too great for the Catiline crime?
|
Fourth Catilinarian
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What Cicero speech, deliverd while the Catiline conspiracy was going on, defends the consul-elect for 62 BC against a charge of bribery?
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Pro Murena
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In which speech does Cicero touch lightly on the guilt of his client, instead satirizing Sulpicius and the legal profession and the quirks of Stoic philosophy, as well as asserting his client is better as consul than Catiline?
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Pro Murena
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What speech did Cicero deliver immediately after his consulship, in 62 BC?
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Pro Sulla
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What charge was Cicero defending Sulla against in his Pro Sulla?
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complicity in the Catilinarian conspiracy
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What speech, delivered in 62 BC, turned into a panegyric of literature?
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Pro Archia
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In what speech does Cicero say he finds poetry useful because it offers respite and refreshment for serious occupations, affords examples useful in oratory, and provides an incentive to distinction by promising to make great deeds immortal?
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Pro Archia
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In which speech of 59 BC does Cicero defend a proconsul of Asia from a charge of extortion?
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Pro Flacco
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What proconsul of Asia did Cicero say had given him help in suppressing the Catilinarian conspiracy?
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Flaccus
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In which speech does Cicero impune the character of the witnesses, who are Asiatic Greeks and Jews?
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Pro Flacco
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in what speech does Cicero chastize Laelius for choosing a place "not far from the Aurelian Steps" in order to capitolize on the influence of the Jewish Crowd, in addition to attacking Jerusalem and the Jews in general?
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Pro Flacco 59 BC
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In what year was Cicero exiled
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58 BC
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What four speeches did Cicero deliver relating to his exile?
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1) Post reditum in senatu
2) Post reditum ad quirites 3) De domo sua 4) De haruspicum responsis |
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In which Ciceronian speech delivered after his exile did he thank the senate?
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Post reditum in senatu (1st speech)
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In which Ciceronian speech delivered after his exile did he thank the people at large?
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Post reditum ad quirites
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In which speech does Cicero claim restitution for his house on the Palatine, illegally "consecrated" by Clodius?
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De Domo Sua
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In which spech of 56 BC does Cicero argue that the omens including profanation of sacred places referred to Clodius' violations, not his?
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De haruspicum responsis
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In which speech does Cicero defend a tribune of 57 BC from a suit brought by Clodius on the lex de vi?
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Pro Sestio
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What speech of Cicero's is a prosecution of a witness who had given evidence against Sestius?
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In Vatinium
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In which speech does Cicero lambast Clodia?
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Pro Caelio
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In which speech does Cicero defend his client against the charge of borrowing money from his sister to murder an Alexandrian envoy? Who is the sister?
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Pro Caelio
sister = Clodia, wife of Quintus Metellus Celer |
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In which speech does icero vent his animostiy on Piso and Gabinius, the consuls of 58 BC who had helped exile him, by proposing their recall from Macedonia and Syria?
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De provinciis consularibus
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In which speech does Cicero eulogize Caesar and advocate the prolongation of his term in Gaul?
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De provinciis consularibus
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What speech followed Quintus informing his brother Cicero that Pompey and Caesar required him to submit or suffer?
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De provinciis consularibus
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Which speech contained interesting remarks on the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus?
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In Pisonem
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In which speech does Cicero respond to a consul who complained when Cicero proposed recalling him from Macedonia?
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In Pisonem
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What Spaniard friend of the triumvirs did Cicero help by defending his citizenship, and what speech was it?
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Balbus
Pro Balbo |
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In what speech does Cicero propsose the recall of Piso and Gabinius, the consuls of 58 who had helped to exile him?
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De Provinciis Consularibus
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Which speech contains interesting remarks on the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus?
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In Pisonem
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Which speech of 54 BC defends an aedile (Who had befriended Cicero in exile) on the charge of procuring his election through bribery?
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Pro Plancio
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In which speech does Cicero defend a lackey of Caesar on the charge of extorting money from Ptolemy Auletes?
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Pro C. Rabirio Postumo
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Where was Caesar proconsul in 51/50 BC?
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Cilicia
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Which speech of 46 BC is an eloquent plea for the pardon of a former Pompeian?
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Pro Marcello
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What future assassin of Caesar did Cicero request a pardon for?
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Pro Ligario
Quintus Ligarius |
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What speech of 45 BC finds Cicero defending a Galatian king on the charge of an attmept to murder Caesar, brought by the king's grandson?
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Pro Rege Deiotauro
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What son-in-law of Cicero received a letter in which Cicero spoke slightingly of Pro Rege Deiotauro?
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Dolabella
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How many Philippic orations did Cicero deliver against Antony?
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fourteen
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Whom did Demosthenes deliver his Philippics against?
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Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great
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who proposed Antony be called an inimicus rather than hostis?
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Cicero
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Who proposed a statue to Servius Sulpicius Rufus in his ninth Philippic?
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Cicero
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Who wrote Cicero a beautiful consolation letter on the death of Tullia in 45 BC?
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Servius Sulpicius Rufus
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Who urged that Cassius be recongized as the governor of Syria and Dolabella be resisted in his Philippic?
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Cicero
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Who proposes a public celebration for the defeat of Antony at Mutina in his fourteenth philippic?
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Cicero
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who wrote "qui morte vicerunt" on the soldiers who died at Mutina
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Cicero
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What year did Cicero die?
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43 BC
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What essay in two books did Cicero write before he was twenty?
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De Inventione
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What work did Cicero write in 55 BC, in three books?
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De Oratore
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Whom does Cicero address De Oratore?
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Quintus
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What work was intended by Cicero to replace De Inventione?
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De Oratore
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In what book of Cicero do Lucius Licinius Crassu and Marcus Antonius, Publius Sulpicius Rufus, and Gaius Aurelius Cotta discuss the orator's art?
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De Oratore
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What work on oratory did cicero write for his own son?
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Partitiones oratoriae
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In which work of Cicero is he himself the chief interlocutor, as well as Brutus and Atticus?
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Brutus
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In which dialogue does Marcus Junior ask questions of Marcus Senior?
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Partitiones Oratoriae
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the opening paragraphs of what Ciceronian work say that Hortensius' death was the incentive to the work?
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Brutus
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In what work does Cicero say "The voice of Quintus Hortensius was silenced by his own death; mine by the death of the republic"
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Brutus
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cicero's third major work on oratory
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De optimo genere dicendi
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Inw hat work does Cicero delineate the ideal orator?
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De optimo genere dicendi
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What work of Cicero purports to be a preface to the translations of Demosthenes' On the Cron and Aeschines' Against Ctesiphon?
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De optimo genere oratorum
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What is the last of Cicero's rhetorical works, written for Gaius Trebatius in July 44?
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Topica
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What work of Cicero's is derived, or based on a copy of Aristotle's Topica found by Gaius Trebatius in Cicero's Tuscan villa?
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Topica
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Which work of Cicero's focuses on the intrinsic vs. extrinsic argument?
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Topica
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cicero's three technical treatises on oratory
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De Inventione, Partitiones Oratoriae, Topica
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Who was born in Volterra, in Etruria, in AD 34?
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Persius
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Who published Persius' books following his death
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Caesius Bassus
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Whom did Persius leave his library upon death
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Annaeus CORNUTUS
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Who explains that the Romans had no philosophic literature because they were preoccupied with more important matters, in the introduction to his work?
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Cicero
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what political philosophy does Cicero continually refute?
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Epicureanism
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What work, begun in 54 AD by Cicero, is his second large treatiste?
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De Republica
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Which book of De Republica has the Somnium Scipionis?
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sixth book
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Which Ciceronian work was discovered ina Vatican palimpsest in 1820? Which other author was in it?
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De Republica
St. Augustine |
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Who preserved and commented on De Republica?
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Macrobius
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Which work of Cicero advocates mixing the three simple forms of government, kingship, aristocracy and democracy?
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De Republica
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What book did Cicero conceive of as a sequel to De Republica?
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De Legibus
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Who is the chief speaker in Cicero's De Legibus?
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Cicero
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Where was Cicero proconsul?
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Cilicia
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What work did Cicero write in 45 BC after the death of Tullia?
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De Consolatione
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What work of Cicero's is an exhortation to the study of philosophy, and influenced St. Augustine?
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Hortensius
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Cicero's treatise on epistemology
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Academica
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Which work came down in two books in the first edition? books called Catulus and Lucullus
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Academica
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Speakers in Cicero's Academica
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Catulus and Lucullus
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Which book did Cicero revise to make Varro speaker instead of Lucullus and Catulus?
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Academica
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In which work does Cicero dismiss the Epicureans by saying "let them look back to their assertions"?
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Academica
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Which book of Cicero considers the chief good which is the final aim in life and the lesser goods and pains which are only means?
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De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
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In which Ciceronian work does cicero converse with spokesmen of the Epicurean, the Stoic, and Old Academic schools in each division?
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De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
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In which work does Cicero advise how to deal with death, enduring affliction, alleviation of grief, emotions, virtue, etc. and other matters concerning happiness?
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Tusculanae Disputationes
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Who translated Plato's Timaeus?
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Cicero
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What major theological work did Cicero complete before the Ides of March?
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De natura deorum
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how many books in de natura deorum
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three
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Which work of Cicero is at the house of Cottus, and includes Balbus?
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De natura deorum
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What work in two books has Cicero and his brother Quintus at Cicero's villa, with Quintus talking about the Stoic view of divine benevolence?
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De Divinatione
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Which work of Cicero's is dedicated to Hirtius?
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De Fato
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Which work of Cicero deals with the problem of free will versus necessity?
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De fato
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What Cicero work, begun in 46 BC between the Brutus and the Orator, talks about paradoxes?
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Paradoxica Stoicorum
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In which Cicero work do Cicero, Brutus, and Atticus all talk?
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Brutus
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Other name of De Senectute
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Cato Maior
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Three interlocutors in De Senectute
whom does Cicero address in the beginning of De Senectute? |
Cato the Elder, Scipio Aemilianus, Laelius
Cicero addresses Atticus in the beginning |
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Cicero's last work beside the Philippics
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De officiis
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Which Cicero work, addressed to his son,......
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De Officiis
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Which work of Cicero has as its two primary sources the Stoics Panaetius and Posidonius?
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De officiis
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How many books did Cicero write to various friends, and title?
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sixteen books of Ad Familiares
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how many books in Ad Atticum?
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sixteen
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how many books to Quintus? title?
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Ad Quintum fratrem, three books
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how many books were written Ad Brutum, and how many survive?
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two survive of nine written
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who readied Cicero's letters for publication
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Tiro
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what jurist wrote a letter to Cicero...of condolence upon the death of Tullia?
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Sulpicius
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Which work is the Commentariolum petitionis found in?
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Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem
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in which letter does Quintus talk to Cicero about running for the consulship?
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Commentariolum petitionis
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who wrote the poem De Consulatu Suo
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Cicero
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Who wrote the Glaucus, Alcyone, Nilus, Uxorius, Limon, Thalia Maesta, and Marius?
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Cicero
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What was Cicero's best poem (probably)?
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Marius
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Who wrote the poem Marius?
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Cicero
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Who translated Aratus' Phaenomena and Prognostica
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Cicero
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Who wrote the Admiranda and Choragraphia?
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Cicero
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who assumed the toga virilis the day Lucretius died?
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Vergil
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Who was born in Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul?
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Vergil
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What poet was educated at Cremona and Milan and Naples?
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Vergil
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Under whom did Vergil study poetry in Naples?
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Parthenius of Bithynia
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What poet was taught by the Epicurean Silo and the rhetorician Epidius at Rome?
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Vergil
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what men interceded to save Vergil's father's farm when the triumvirs confiscated land?
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Asinius Pollio and Alfenus Rufus
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Who introduced Vergil to Octavian?
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Asinius Pollio
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Whom did Vergil dedicate the Eclogues to?
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Octavian
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Who requested that Vergil compose the Georgics?
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Maecenas
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Who introduced Horace to Maecenas?
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Vergil
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What three men join Horace in his "Journey to Brundisium" as the "fariest souls and dearest friends on earth"?
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Vergil and Plotius Tucca and Varius Rufus
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In which work does Vergil announce his intention to write an epic poem with Augustus at center?
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Georgics
third book |
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Who was buried on the road to Puteoli?
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Vergil
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In which Eclogue does Corydon lament the unattainable Alexis?
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Eclogue 2
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Which Eclogue is a singing contest between Menalcas and Damon, with Palaemon as judge?
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Eclogue 3
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In which Eclogue are Pollio, Bavius and Maevius mentioned?
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Eclogue 3
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In which Eclogue does Meliboeus report a contest between the shepherd Thyrsis and the goatherd Corydon?
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Eclogue 7
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Which eclogue has Mopsus and Menalcas in a friendly song competition, relating the death of Daphnis?
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Eclogue 5
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In which Eclogue does Vergil mention Pollio's consulship?
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Eclogue 4
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Maenalian Verses Eclogue
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Eclogue 8
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Eclogue 6 is addressed to whom?
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Varus, who helped Vergil maintain his right to his farm
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Which Eclogue has the sleep of Silenus
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Eclogue 6
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Eclogue with Moeris and Lycidas
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Eclogue 9
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Eclogue consoling Gallus for loss of mistress
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Eclogue 10
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Which work of Vergil "sings the song of Ascra through the towns of Rome"
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Georgics
i.e. Hesiod |
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Which work of Vergil draws upon the authors Cato and Varro as well as Ennius?
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Georgics
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work with "neither the flowering groves/of Media's realm, nor Ganges proud....can compare to ITaly"
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Georgics
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Which Vergilian work invokes Caesar in Book I
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Georgics
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name what each book of the Georgics deals with
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1- agriculture proper
2- arboriculture 3- animal husbandry 4- beekeeping |
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which work of Vergil, and what book, has a eulogy of Italy and country life?
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Book 2, Georgics
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In which book and work of Vergil does he make a division between large and small animals, professing affinity for the horse?
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Book 3
Georgics |
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In which book and work does Vergil, imitating Lucretius, close with a description of pestilence?
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Book 3
Georgics |
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which book of the Georgics deals with hives, bees, and includes a description of warfare between swarms of bees?
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Book 4
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Which book and work of Vergil has the epyllion of Aristaeus?
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Book 4
Georgics |
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Which work and book originally had a laudes Galli? What was substituted for the laudes Galli?
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Book 4, Georgics
an account of Aristaeus substituted |
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Whose history is a "sister work" to the Aeneid
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Livy
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Which ode castigates the deterioration of religion?
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Horace' sixth ode
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name for the Roman people in Aeneid
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Aeneadae
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what author does Vergil base the Aeneas/Dido affair on?
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Apollonius Rhodius
Argonautica |
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what associate of Odysseus refuses to talk to him in the underworld?
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Ajax
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who tells Aeneas in the underworld how he was murdered by his wife?
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Deiphobus
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in the latter half of the Aeneid, to whom is there an unsuccessful embassy?
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Diomedes
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whom does Cupid impersonate in the opening book of the Aeneid
|
Ascanius/Iulus
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In which book does Aeneas celebrate funeral games for his father, and where?
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Book 5
Sicily |
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Which book of the Aeneid opens with a fresh invocation
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Book 7
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In which book of the Aeneid is there a catalogue of Italian forces?
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Book 7
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In the Aeneid, what Etruscan...
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Mezentius
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In which book of the Aeneid does Aeneas get his armor?
|
Book 8
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In which book of the Aeneid does Turnus fire the Trojan ships?
|
Book 9
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In which book is the Nisus and Euryalus episode?
|
Book 9
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Which book of the Aeneid has Ascanius killing his first man?
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Book 9
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Who saves Turnus from death after he kills Pallas
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Juno
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What son of Mezentius does Aeneas kill?
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Lausus
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Which book begins with a truce for the funeral of Pallas and the dead?
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Book 11
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In which book does Camilla.....do great deeds/
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Book 11
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In which book does Turnus offer to undertake single combat with Aeneas?
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Book 12
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Epigrammata and Aetna are in what collection?
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Appendix Vergiliana
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Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana is addressed to Octavian, as puer?
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Culex
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In which poem does a farmer kill a gnat whose ghost comes to haunt him?
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Culex
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which epyllion in the Appendix tells of Nisus and Scylla?
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Ciris
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What is Scylla transformed into in the Ciris?
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a seahawk named Ciris, always pursued by her father, a seaeagle
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nurse of Scylla in the Ciris
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Carme
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elegaic poem of thirty-eight lines, it tells of a cabaret girl
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Copa
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Which poem of the Appendix has Scybale and a farmer preparing his salad?
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Moretum
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confiscation of a farm is the subject of this Appendix poem
|
Lydia
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an appendix work, four short poems in which the garden god speaks
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Priapea
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an Appendix work, fifteen short poems
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Catalepton
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teacher of Horace, Varus, and Vergil
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Siro
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what poem, numbered by Suetonius in the Appendix, tells of volcanic action in 646 hexameters?
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Aetna
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Who wrote a letter to whom speaking of "Aetnam in tuo carmine"?
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Seneca to LUCILIUS (may have wrote the Aetna)
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born in Apulia, Venusia to be specific
|
Horace
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what author, born in 65 BC....
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Horace
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In which work does Horace praise his father?
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Satire
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Where did Horace go for advanced study?
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Athens
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Who went to Athens and enrolled in the army of Brutus?
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Horace
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Who purchased a secretarial post in the treasury to support himself after his father's farm got confiscated?
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Horace
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What men invited Horace to see Maecenas?
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Vergil and Varius
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Who was given in 33 BC a Sabine farm?
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Horace
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earliest work of Horace
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Epodes
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how many poems in Epodes
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seventeen
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meter of Epodes
|
iambic meters
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Which work did Horace publish simultaneously with the second book of the satires?
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Epodes
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basis for Horace's Epodes
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Archilochus
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Who accompanied his friend Maecenas to Actium in 31 BC?
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Horace
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What work of what poet involves Alfius the usurer and is a eulogy of country life?
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Epode 2
Horace |
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In which work does Horace call down vengeance on Maecenas.....for seasoning his dish with too much garlic?
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Epode 3
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Which work and poet: witch Canidia torturing boy
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Epode 5
Horace |
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What poet declares that he is a second Archilochus or Hipponax, and in what work?
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Horace
Epodes |
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which work has Horace addressing Maecenas on the triumph of Actium?
|
Epode 9
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What two poets damn the "smelly" poet Maevius/
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Horace, Epodes
Vergil |
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What poet chides Neaera for jilting him?
|
Horace
(also, Tibullus) |
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Who wrote and where, on Pyrrha?
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Horace
Ode 1.5 |
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earliest Epode
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Epode 16
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Horace dedicated the Sermones/Saturae to whom?
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Maecenas
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Horace based "Bore" on...
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Lucilius
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in which work do we find Horace addressing Maecenas on the folly of man's race for wealth?
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Satires
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Who says his satires are not poetry?
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Horace
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which satire is the journey to Brundisium
|
1.5
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which work of whom has Brutus being exhorted to kill a Rex on trial before him in Asia?
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Satire 1.7
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in which work is there a dialogue between Gaius Trebatius Testa and Horace?
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Satire 2.1
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how many books of Horace's Satires?
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2 books
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what poet, work writes of the farmer Ofellus' frugality?
|
Horace Satire 2.2
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Which work/poet has the bankrupt speculator Damasippus, and a criticism of Stoicism
|
Horace Satire 2.3
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What poet gives legacy hunters tips?
|
Horace Satire 2.5
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What poet continues the conversation of Ulysses and Tiresias.....
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Horace Satire 2.6/2.7?
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which poet writes of his slave Davus and his discourse on old fashioned values and Saturnalia?
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Horace Satire 2.7
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according to Quintilian, only Latin lyric poet worth reading
|
Horace
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who wrote about Fundanius
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Horace, Satires
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how many poems and books in the Odes?
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103 poems, 4 books
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work also known as Carmina
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Odes
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which author uses Asclepiads, Sapphics, and Alcaics among 19 other metrical patterns...
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Horace
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What poet addresses Lydia
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Horace
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Horace "vigui perarum rege beatior" while she loved him
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Lydia
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who wrote about Lydia and Chloe?
|
Horace
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who replaced Lydia in Horace's affections?
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Chloe
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poet who addresses Fuscus
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Horace
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Who tells Dellius to stop complaining, since death is near?
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Horace
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WHo advises Licinius on moderation?
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Horace
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who laments to Postumus?
|
Horace
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Who laments that the city was great "while Romulus or Cato were obeyed"?
|
Horace
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In which book of the Odes do we find six stately odes?
|
third book of Odes
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in Horace, what god is called Qurinian?
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Janus
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who praises Caesar Augustus for restoring plenteous grain to the fields?
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Horace
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non omnis.....
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Horace
non omnis moriar |
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exegi.....
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Horace
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who wrote a hymn...in nineteen Sapphic strophes for boys and girls?
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Horace
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what emperor's particular deities were Diana and Apollo?
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Augustus
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which work of Ovid covers constellations, weather, history, myth, astronomy, festivals, religious rites, etc.?
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Fasti
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Who took his astronomy from his friend Clodius Tuscus
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Ovid
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In which work does Janus intrdocue himself to the poet?
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Fasti, Ovid
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how many books in Tristia
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five
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how many books in Epistulae ex Ponto
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four
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Ovid's five book work
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Tristia
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In Book 2 of which work does Ovid defend...Ars Amatoria to Augustus?
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Tristia
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In which work does Ovid offer his wife consolation....
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Tristia
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What emperor did Ovid hope would pardon him after his Pannonian triumph?
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Tiberius
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Who wrote a panegyric on Augustus following his death, as well as a glorification of Caesar in the Getic language?
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Ovid
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Author was the basis of the Ibis
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Callimachus
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What 650 line poem of Ovid's is an imitation of Callimachus?
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Ibis
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Ovid's poem in 132 lines
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Halieutica
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Ovid's treatise on fishing
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Halieuticon
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Who wrote an Epithalamion for Fabius Maximus?
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Ovid
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What uncompleted poem of Ovid deals with Mythology?
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Gigantomachy
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which work of Ovid has a catalogue of poets?
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Epistulae ex Ponto
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Writer of Cynegetica, which opens addressing Diana
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Grattius
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What Roman historian believed that divine will and destiny were responsible for the course of Rome's rise?
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Livy
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Whom did Augustus call a Pompeian.....
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Livy
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who encouraged Claudius in his historical studies?
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Augustus
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who was born in 59 BC....
When did he die? |
Livy b. 59 BC died AD 17
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What historian began his work at the age of thirty...
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Livy
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After what battle was the temple of Janus closed, according to Livy, in the late 1st century BC?
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Actium
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Which Livy book contained the death of Drusus?
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142
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What separate title did Books 109-116 of Livy bear?
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Belli civilis libri
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What historian admits he does not believe in the divine parentage of Romulus and Remus, or Romulus' ascension?
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Livy
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What contemporary of Livy composed the first universal history in Latin?
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Pompeius Trogus
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Pompeius Trogus was a native of what country?
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Gaul
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how many books did Pompeius Trogus write?
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44 books of history
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What historian also wrote zoological and botanical works used by Pliny the Elder?
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Pompeius Trogus
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Who abridged Pompeius Trogus?
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Justin
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What grandfather of Lucan....
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Seneca the Elder
Annaeus Seneca |
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Who was born of an equestrian family at Cordova in 55 BC?
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Seneca the Elder
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Great work of Seneca the Elder. On what subject?
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Oratorum sententiae divisiones colores
on rhetoric |
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Who culled extracts of leading rhetoricians from memory and commented on them?
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Seneca the Elder
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Which works of Seneca the Elder were originally in the Oratorum sententiae divisiones colores?
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Controversiae and Suasoriae
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how many books of the Controversiae have survived?
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5 books
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Which work by which author is a deliberation on alternative courses of action?
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Suasoriae
Seneca the Elder |
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Which work of Seneca is a discussion on moot points of equity?
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Controversiae
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Which work contains specimens from over a hundred rhetors dealing with forty themes?
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Oratorum sententiae divisiones colores by Seneca the Elder
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How many books in De Architectura?
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10 books
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Which book deals with temples, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders?
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De Architectura
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What historian served under Tiberius for eight years, becoming quaestor in AD 6 and praetor in AD 15 on Tiberius' suggestion?
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Velleius Paterculus
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who presented MArcus Vincius... with a compendium of Roman history down to AD 30?
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Velleius Paterculus
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how many books in Velleius Paterculus' compendium?
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two books
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What historian adulates the emperor Tiberius?
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Velleius Paterculus
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Who provides the only continous account of the long historical stretches for which we have no Livy?
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Velleius Paterculus
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What historian calls Sallust an emulator of Thucydides, though Sallust is generally his model?
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Velleius Paterculus
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Who wrote Factorum....et dictorum memorabilitium libri novem?
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Valerius Maximus
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how many books in Valerius Maximus
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nine
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Whom does Valerius Maximus dedicate his Memorable Deeds and Sayings to?
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Tiberius
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What historian accompanied Ovid's friend Sextus Pompey to his governorship of Asia?
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Valerius Maximus
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who illustrates his work with domestica, externa, etc.?
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Valerius Maximus
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What writer, who probably lived under Claudius, wrote History of Alexander the Great?
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Quintus Curtius (Rufus)
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first latin prose work not directly concerned with Roman stuff
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History of Alexander the Great
Quintus Curtius Rufus |
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how many books in Curtius Rufus' History of Alexander the Great?
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ten books, two completely lost
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earliest extant Latin work on geography
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De Chorographia
Pomponius Mela |
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author born in Tingentera, near Gibraltar
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Pomponius Mela
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under what emperor did Pomponius Mela write?
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Claudius
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how many books of De Chorographia?
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three books
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Who wrote, and how many books, De Medicina?
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Aulus Cornelius Celsus
8 books |
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Under what emperor did Aulus Cornelius Celsus write?
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Tiberius
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Who wrote, as part of an encyclopedia on agriculture, medicine, war, rhetoric, jurisprudence and philosophy, eight books on medicine?
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Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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Whom did Quintilian call mediocri vir ingenio?
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Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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What writer under Tiberius shows special reverence for Hippocrates?
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Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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born in Gadez, this author served as military tribune in Syria
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Lucius Junius Columella
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how many books in De re rustica by Columella?
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twelve books
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Who writes his tenth book in 436 hexameters to supplement Vergil, who left the topic of gardening to future authors?
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Columella
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Who addrssed Silvinus?
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Columella
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What Carthaginian author...wrote on agriculture?
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Mago
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Who wrote a didactic poem on astrology?
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Marcus Manilius
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how many books in Manilius' Astronomica?
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5 books
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