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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: Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 10.5

Proximo anno, domine, gravissima valetudine usque ad periculum

vitae vexatus iatralipten assumpsi; cuius sollicitudini et studio

tuae tantum indulgentiae beneficio referre gratiam parem possum.

Quare rogo des ei civitatem Romanam.

5

Est enim peregrinae condicionis manumissus a peregrina.

Vocatur ipse Arpocras, patronam habuit Thermuthin Theonis, quae

iam pridem defuncta est. Item rogo des ius

Quiritium libertis Antoniae Maximillae.

dominus, -i, m.: lord, master; form of address to Trajan

valetudo, -inis, f.: health, illness

vexo, -are: to trouble, afflict

iatralipta, -ae, m.: medical attendant, masseur

sollicitudo, -inis, f.: care, concern

indulgentia, -ae, f.: kindness, favor

civitas, -atis, f.: citizenship

peregrinus, -a, -um, adj.: foreign, non-Roman

manumitto, -ere: to free from slavery

Arpocras, -ae, m.: Harpocras, Pliny’s attendant

Thermuthis, -is, f.: Thermuthis, Harpocras’s patron

Quirites, -ium, m. pl.: Roman citizens

A.

(i) Translate in context the phrase tuae tantum indulgentiae beneficio (line 3).

(ii) Identify the case of indulgentiae.

B.

Identify the contextual meaning of assumpsi (line 2).

C.

Identify the antecedent of cuius (line 2).

D.

Identify or describe the grammatical use of des (line 4).

E.

Identify what Pliny states about the legal status of Arpocras in lines 5–6 (Est enim … peregrina).

F.

Identify one and only one of the two requests Pliny makes in this passage.

G.

Identify to whom Pliny is writing this letter.

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