NLE Advanced

. According to your knowledge of Roman history, what leader was killed shortly before Caesar’s arrival in Alexandria?

• Pompey

• Octavian

• Antony

• Crassus

This passage occurs near the end of Commentarii de Bello Civili. What years would most closely approximate the time in which this passage was written?

• 65-60 BC

• 58-52 BC

• 49-46 BC

• 40-38 BC

What figure of speech: occidit āeriae celeberrima glōria gentis

• chiastic word order

• litotes

• hendiadys

• prolepsis

What goddess is addressed here: Alma, tibi hanc, nemorum cultrīx, Lātōnia virgō,

• Minerva

• Juno

• Vesta

• Diana

How many elisions are found in this line:

quam dextrā ingentī librāns ita ad aethera fātur

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

Huiuscemodī means:

• and the following

• for example

• for this purpose

• of this sort

The best translation of vītam dūcere:

• A) live

• postpone old age

• rule

• live on after death

What Roman author wrote about natural history and phenomena in a famous encyclopedic work?

• A) Tacitus

• Quintilian

• Pliny the Elder

• Cicero

haud nescia is an example of:

• hysteron-proteron

• anastrophe

• litotes

• zeugma

In line 10, -que connects:

• prendere and attingere

• certat and attingere

• manū and socium

• socium and dextrās