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1) What three-word Latin phrase describes the literary convention of starting a narrative midway through a story rather than at the beginning and literally means “in the middle of things”?
2) On September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully at her Scottish estate. From what Latin verb, with what meaning, do we ultimately derive the English word “estate”?
3) Taylor Swift’s new album Midnights just dropped a little while ago. Translate this line from the song “Maroon” into English: Āmīsī tē, illum quōcum Novī Eborācī saltābam, sine calceīs.
4) Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album The Loneliest Time dropped the same day as Midnights. Translate this line from the song “Far Away” into English: Audīvīavem noctis cantantem dulcissima verba totīus vītae meae.
5) If you are mad that December is the twelth month rather than the tenth, you would probably blame what Roman, who added two months to the year?
6) What emperor, the third to rule, faked an invasion of Britain and commanded his soldiers to merely collect seashells along the southern shore of the English Channel?
7) What queen committed
suicide by burning herself on a pyre when her Trojan lover left Carthage to found the city of Rome in Book 4 of the Aeneid?
8) Translate this sentence, which utilizes a dative of special verb, from Latin into English: Canēs sordidī mihi placent, sed nōn aliīs.
9) What governor of Britain defeated Boudicca, probably along a road later called Watling Street?
10) What author demonstrated how a librarian is important for historical research by using the imperial archives under Hadrian to write the Dē Virīs Illustribus and Dē Vītā Caesarum?