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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 passage below.

Source: Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.20.1

Ais te adductum litteris quas exigenti tibi de

morte avunculi mei scripsi, cupere cognoscere, quos ego

Miseni relictus, id enim ingressus abruperam, non solum

metus verum etiam casus pertulerim.

5

Quamquam animus meminisse horret, incipiam.

Profecto avunculo ipse reliquum tempus studiis, ideo enim

remanseram, impendi; mox balineum cena somnus inquietus et

brevis.

aio, defective verb: you say

adduco, -ere: to lead, induce

exigo, -ere: to demand, request

avunculus, -i, m.: maternal uncle

Misenum, -i, n.: Misenum, a town in Campania

ingredior, ingredi: to begin

abrumpere, -ere: to break off

perfero, perferre: to endure, undergo

horreo, -ere: to shudder

profecto, adv.: indeed, certainly

impendo, -ere: to spend, devote

balineum, -i, n.: bath

A.

(i) Translate in context the phrase non solum metus verum etiam casus pertulerim (lines 3–4).

(ii) Identify the mood of pertulerim.

B.

Identify the antecedent of quas (line 1).

C.

Identify what Pliny says he desires to do in lines 1–4 (cupere cognoscere).

D.

Identify the case and number of studiis (line 6).

E.

Identify what Pliny says he did with his remaining time after his uncle departed (lines 6–7).

F.

Identify the grammatical use of the clause Quamquam animus meminisse horret, incipiam (line 5).

G.

Identify the event that prompted Pliny to write the letter in which this passage appears.

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