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FRQ 1 – Short Answer (Vergil or Pliny)
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Practice FRQ 1 of 251/25

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 6.16.4-5

Erat Miseni classemque imperio praesens regebat.

Nonum Kal. Septembres hora fere septima mater mea

indicat ei apparere nubem inusitata et magnitudine et

specie. Usus ille sole, mox frigida, gustaverat iacens

5

studebatque; poscit soleas, ascendit locum ex quo maxime

miraculum illud conspici poterat. Nubes, incertum procul intuentibus

ex quo monte, Vesuvium fuisse postea cognitum est,

oriebatur.

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

classis, -is, f.: fleet

Nonus, -a, -um, adj.: ninth

Kalendae, -arum, f. pl.: Kalends, first day of the month

September, -bris, adj.: of September

nubes, -is, f.: cloud

inusitatus, -a, -um, adj.: unusual

gusto, -are: to taste, eat lightly

solea, -ae, f.: sandal

conspicio, -ere: to catch sight of, see

Vesuvius, -i, m.: Mount Vesuvius

orior, oriri: to rise, arise

A.

(i) Translate in context the phrase inusitata et magnitudine et specie (lines 3–4).

(ii) Identify the case of magnitudine.

B.

Identify the contextual meaning of praesens (line 1).

C.

Identify the antecedent of quo in the phrase ex quo maxime miraculum illud conspici poterat (lines 5–6).

D.

Identify what Pliny's mother does in lines 2–3 (mater mea indicat ei apparere nubem...).

E.

Identify the grammatical construction of apparere in line 3 (indicat ei apparere nubem).

F.

Identify one and only one action Pliny the Elder takes after his mother reports the cloud (lines 4–6).

G.

Identify the role Pliny the Elder held at Misenum at the time described in this passage.

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