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What is the Future Tense
The tense indicator is "bi" and looks Present in 3rd
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What is Rome?
This eternal city has seven hills and is located on the Tiber River.
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What are the Lares & Penates?
These household gods were often found in the atrium of a domus.
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Who is Juppiter (Zeus)?
A lightning bolt throwing king of the gods that was husband to Juno and father to many other gods.
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Who is Julius Caesar?
He famously said "alea iacta est," "et tu, Brute," and "veni, vidi, vici"
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What is Present Stem
If you drop the "re" from this infinitive the result is the basis for the Present, Imperfect & Future
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What is Troy?
Also known as Ilium, this city is home to Priam, Hector and Paris.
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What is a triclinium?
The family meals were all conducted in this room.
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Who is Neptune (Poseidon)?
He held the horse as a sacred animal and carried a trident to rule over the waves.
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Who is Augustus Caesar?
Originally known as Octavius, he wrested power from the first triumvirate and became the first Emperor of Rome.
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What is the Present Subjunctive
This TENSE and Mood has a stem change
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What is Aegean Sea?
This sea, named for Zeus' shield, lies between Athens and Troy.
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What is the toga picta?
This particular ornate toga was worn by the Emperor of Rome.
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Who is Apollo?
This twin sun god fell in love with the nymph, Daphne, and holds the laurel tree sacred.
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Who are the Horiatii?
These triplet brothers protected Rome during a conflict with Alba Longa and defeated the Curiati brothers though it cost two of the brothers lives
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What is the Perfect Passive Participle
This form is the 4th Principal Part and acts like an adjective
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What is the Rhine?
This German river was forded by Caesar in De Bello Gallico only to have the bridge deconstructed days later.
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What is an impluvium?
Water typically runs off the roof of the home and through this opening in the atrium to collect in the compluvium.
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Who is Minerva (Athena)?
She turned Arachne into a spider, holds the aegis and sprang fully armored from Juppiter;s head.
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Who is Mucius Scaevola?
In a tale told by Livy, this Roman hero tried to assassinate the Etruscan king. He was captured and lost his right hand in the flames earning him the name "lefty"
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What is a Gerund.
This verb form is marked by "nd" and functions like a noun in a sentence.
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What is the Capitoline Hill?
This hill housed the Forum and the Senate in Rome.
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What is the andron.
A small hallway that allowed passage from the atrium to the peristylum if someone was using the tablinium.
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Who is Chronos?
A Titan who fathered the Olypmians who was overthrown by Juppiter.
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Who is Titus Flavius Caesar (Titus)?
This short ruled emperor saw the completion of the Colosseum in Rome in 80 AD.
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