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CERTAMEN CORNER
STATE FINALS CERTAMEN
APRIL 29
Virginia State Finals Certamen took place on Saturday , April 29th . Competitors met at Stafford High School and competed from 9:00am to 3:30pm . While Certamen was the main event . there was also a bake sale and VSCL raffle ! The VJCL officers had planned some Classics Week activities , but there was so much excitement that we had to cancel these activities to make way for the Certamen competitions ! Congratulations to all who competed !
Certamen Trivia !
NOVICE INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED
Which one of the following words could a Roman use to describe his food : lentus , dulcis , sordidus , dīves ?
One might think the god of archery would have better aim , but what youth from Amyclae was killed when his lover Apollo threw a discus and accidentally hit him ?
After the death of Domitian , what Roman author from Aquinum began writing five books of sixteen satires , in which he coined the famous phrase “ pānem et circēnsēs ”?
QUESTIONS FROM YALE CERTAMEN 2018 ANSWER KEY