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FRQ 1 – Short Answer (Vergil or Pliny)
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Practice FRQ 1 of 261/26

1. Answer the following questions in English unless the question specifically asks you to provide Latin words. Base your answers on the Latin passage below.

Source: Vergil, Aeneid 12.819-828

Illud te, nulla fati quod lege tenetur,

pro Latio obtestor, pro maiestate tuorum:

cum iam conubiis pacem felicibus (esto)

component, cum iam leges et foedera iungent,

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ne vetus indigenas nomen mutare Latinos

neu Troas fieri iubeas Teucrosque vocari

aut vocem mutare viros aut vertere vestem.

Sit Latium, sint Albani per saecula reges,

sit Romana potens Itala virtute propago:

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occidit, occideritque sinas cum nomine Troia.

Albanus, -a, -um, adj.: Alban, inhabiting Alba Longa (a city in Italy)

foedus, -eris, n.: alliance

indigenus, -a, -um, adj.: native

Italus, -a, -um, adj.: Italian

iungo, -ere: to join

Latinus, -a, -um, adj.: Latin, of Latium

maiestas, -atis, f.: dignity

neu, adv.: nor

obtestor, -ari: = oro, -are

propago, -inis, f.: offspring

sino, -ere: to allow

Troas: acc. pl., "Trojans"

A.

(i) Translate in context the phrase nulla fati quod lege tenetur (line 1).

(ii) Identify the case of lege.

B.

Translate in context the phrase pro maiestate tuorum (line 2).

C.

Identify the antecedent of quod (line 1).

D.

Translate in context the phrase vocem mutare viros (line 7).

E.

Identify or describe the grammatical use of the subjunctive verb Sit (line 8).

F.

Identify one and only one action that Juno asks Jupiter not to require of the Latins in lines 5–7 (ne...vestem).

G.

Identify what Paris did that made Juno hostile to the Trojans and thus contributed to the events leading to the Trojan War.

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