clothing | Slaves | Family life | the Trojan War | Grammar! |
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What is a toga with a purple border?
toga praetexta
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What is branded on a runaway slave's forehead?
FUG
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What is the term for the father's legal power over his family?
patria potestâs
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What is the name of the Trojan who founded Italy?
Aeneas
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What is the name of the case for words that function as the SUBJECT of a sentence?
nominative
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What is the traditional garment of Roman women?
stola
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What is a slave overseer?
vilicus
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What is the term for "head of the family"
paterfamiliâs
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What is the name of Aeneas' father?
Anchises
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What is the name of the case for words that function as the DIRECT OBJECT of a sentence?
accusative
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What is a white toga worn after age 15?
toga virilis
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What is the name for a freed slave?
libertus
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What is the name of the son who disobeyed his father while flying through the air?
Icarus
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What is the name of the long epic poem that tells about the wanderings of Aeneas after the fall of Troy?
Aeneid
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What is the term for distinguishing between plural and singular verbs?
number
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What is a cape or shawl worn over a woman's dress?
palla
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What is a slave dealer?
Mangônês
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What is the name of household gods?
Lares and the Penates
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What is the name of the woman whose abduction sparked the Trojan War?
Helen
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What is the term for a list showing all the different endings of a noun depending on the function it has in a sentence?
declension
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What is used to color the feet of foreign slaves at auction?
white chalk
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What is the name of the father who ordered the execution of his 3 traitorous sons?
Brutus
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What is the name of the woman in Carthage who fell in love with Aeneas and slowed him down on his journey to found a new city?
Dido
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What is the name of the case for words that follow certain prepositions (like "in" (in/on))?
ablative
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