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

1. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow in English unless a question specifically asks you to provide Latin words. Refer to the line numbers provided.

Source: Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 7.27.5

Venit Athenas philosophus Athenodorus, legit titulum auditoque pretio,

quia suspecta vilitas, percunctatus omnia docetur ac nihilo

minus, immo tanto magis conducit.

Ubi coepit advesperascere, iubet sterni sibi in prima

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domus parte, poscit pugillares, stilum, lumen;

suos omnes in interiora dimittit, ipse ad scribendum

animum, oculos, manum intendit, ne vacua mens audita

simulacra et inanes sibi metus fingeret.

Athenae, -arum, f. pl.: Athens

Athenodorus, -i, m.: Athenodorus, a philosopher

titulus, -i, m.: notice, sign

pretium, -i, n.: price

vilitas, -atis, f.: cheapness, low price

percunctor, percunctari: to ask thoroughly

conduco, -ere: to rent, hire

advesperasco, -ere: to grow dark, approach evening

sterno, -ere: to spread, prepare

pugillares, -ium, m. pl.: writing tablets

stilus, -i, m.: stylus

simulacrum, -i, n.: image, apparition

A.

(i) Translate in context the phrase quia suspecta vilitas (line 2).

(ii) Identify the grammatical construction of suspecta vilitas within this phrase.

B.

Translate in context the phrase nihilo minus (line 2–3).

C.

Identify the antecedent of sibi (line 4).

D.

Identify the grammatical form of scribendum (line 6).

E.

Identify one and only one of the three objects Athenodorus directs toward writing in lines 6–7 (animum, oculos, manum).

F.

Identify or describe the grammatical use of fingeret (line 8).

G.

Identify what Athenodorus does with the members of his household before he settles down to write.

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