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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 2.40-49

Primus ibi ante omnis magna comitante caterva

Laocoon ardens summa decurrit ab arce,

et procul: "O miseri, quae tanta insania, cives?

creditis avectos hostis? aut ulla putatis

5

dona carere dolis Danaum? sic notus Ulixes?

aut hoc inclusi ligno occultantur Achivi,

aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros

inspectura domos venturaque desuper urbi,

aut aliquis latet error. Equo ne credite, Teucri.

10

Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis."

Laocoon, -ontis, m.: Laocoon, a Trojan priest

caterva, -ae, f.: crowd, band

arx, arcis, f.: citadel, height

procul, adv.: from a distance

insania, -ae, f.: madness, insanity

aveho, -ere: to carry away

dolus, -i, m.: trick, deceit

Danai, -orum, m. pl.: Greeks

Ulixes, -is, m.: Ulysses, Odysseus

Achivi, -orum, m. pl.: Greeks, Achaeans

machina, -ae, f.: machine, engine, contrivance

Teucri, -orum, m. pl.: Trojans

A.

(i) Translate in context the phrase sic notus Ulixes (line 5).

(ii) Identify the case of Ulixes.

B.

Identify the contextual meaning of the verb latet in line 9.

C.

Identify the antecedent of id in line 10 (Quidquid id est).

D.

Identify the grammatical form of inspectura (line 8).

E.

Identify the grammatical construction of Equo ne credite (line 9).

F.

Identify one and only one of the three things Laocoon suggests the horse might be in lines 6–9 (aut hoc…error).

G.

Identify what ultimately happens to Laocoon after he warns the Trojans about the horse.

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