The 30th Annual Vermont Latin Day
Theme: Metamorphosing the Verb
Table of Contents
| Horarium et Agenda | 2-4 |
| Opening Ceremonies/Responses | 2 |
| Canticum novum: CAESAR'S TRIUMPH | 3 |
Texts and Summariesfor Skits, Probatio and Certamen; |
4-7 |
| Suggestions for Skits and Individual Displays | 7 |
Probatio, Certamen, and Mini-Probatio Particulars and Sample Questions |
7-9 |
| Scoring Information | 9-10 |
| Latin Day Registration Form | 11 |
| Note on Displays with Texts | 12 |
| Music and Text for Gaudeamus Igitur | 13 |
| Map | 14 |
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Thirtieth Annual Vermont Latin Day
Ludi Vermontenses Tricensimo Anno Celebrati
April 7, 2006
ante diem VII Id. Aprilis MMVI
The University of Vermont
in aula Universitatis Viridis Montis
HORARIUM ET AGENDA
9:00-9:20 ASSEMBLE in Patrick Gym.
BRIEFING of the "Microphone Masters" of each delegation to learn how to use the stage sound equipment for the skits.
REGISTRATION at the Registration Desk
SET UP EXHIBITS on the tables in Patrick Gym
9:20-45 OPENING CEREMONIES including introduction of each delegation. When called upon, each delegation will stand, saying HIC SUMUS, and remain standing long enough to be judged for its COSTUMES (HABITUS). As in previous years, there will be a prize for the best costumes.
Magister: Salvete sodales omnes!
Omnes: Salve, magister!
Magister : Benigne accipimus vos omnes, discipuli discipulaeque,
magistri magistraeque, sed primum volo me certum facere unde sitis. Ex ordine litterarum vos petam et salutabo: Delegatio "a" ubi estis?
Omnis quaeque delegatio, in pedes surgens et habitus suos iudicibus monstrans : Hic sumus.
Magister: Nobis valde placet quod vos his in ludis verba ex fabulis Ovidii poetae excerpta modis et formis mutandis monstrare vultis. Sed nunc volo introducere collegam meam, mulierem honestissimam et praeclarissimam, Decanam Collegii Artium Scientiaeque Universitatis Viridis Montis quae vos amice salutare vult. Omnes: Salve!
Decana: (breviter latine loquens)
Omnes:Gratias tibi agimus!
9:45-55 SPECIAL AWARDS: Largest Delegation, Highest per capita Enrollment, School Traveling the Farthest, CANE Writing Contest Vermont Winners, Vermont Latin Sight Translations Test Winners, Largest Increase in Latin Enrollment, First Attendance at Latin Day
9:55-59 At the conclusion of the Special Awards we will stand and sing together a CANTICUM NOVUM: CAESAR'S TRIUMPH (to the tune of Clementine, named for a Caesarian virtue!)
Ecce Caesar nunc triumphat qui subegit Galliam,
Civiumque multitudo celebrat victoriam.
Gaius Iulius Caesar noster, imperator, pontifex,
Primum praetor, deinde consul, nunc dictator, moxque rex.
En victores procedentes, laeti floribus novis,
Magna praeda sunt potiti et captivis plurimis.
Exsultantes magna voce Io triumphe! concinunt,
Dum auratum ante currum victas urbes praeferunt.
Legiones viam sacram totam complent strepitu,
Capitolinumque collem scandit Caesar in curru.
O sol pulcher, o laudande! Caesarem recepimus,
Et corona triumphali honoratum vidimus.
10:00-30 MAXI-PROBATIO for JUNIOR and SENIOR TEAMS in the Gymnastics Room (see Probatio Particulars).
10:00-10:15 MINI-PROBATIO: The Spectatores remain in the stands for a short viva voce Probatio, while the teams are participating in the Maxi-Probatio. !!! NOTE !!! Some improvements have been introduced this year to the format of the Mini-Probatio. Please see special instructions below.
10:15-10:30 VIEWING THE DISPLAYS: The Spectatores will have time for a short viewing of the Displays both at this time and after the Skits.
10:30-11:45 SKITS on Metamorphosing the Verb
11:45-12:00 7th INNING STRETCH / DISPLAY VIEWING
12:00-12:05 RETURN TO SEATS
12:05-12:10 STAND AND SING Gaudeamus Igitur:
Gaudeamus igitur iuvenes dum sumus;
Gaudeamus igitur iuvenes dum sumus;
Post iucundam iuventutem, post molestam senectutem
Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus.
Vivat nunc Mons Viridis, sicut tunc Romani!
Vivat nunc Mons Viridis, sicut tunc Romani!
Vivat lingua Caesaris! Vivat illa Socratis!
Viridimontani, Viridimontani!
12:10-25 AWARDS for the Silver Bowls (for a combination of Displays, Maxi-Probatio Juniorum, and Skits) and Senior Certamen Plaque and Ribbons for the Skits and a Special Award for D.O.T. (Delegatio Optime Togata, i.e., BEST COSTUMES), then EXEUNT OMNES
Skits and Texts for the Probatio and Certamen ; all three texts are to be studied for the Senior Certamen.)
The skit should present one of these episodes from Ovid's Metamorphoses and highlight one or more of its important verbs. Possible verbs follow (but other verbs in the episode may be used, even synonyms that might be simpler). Schools will have informed(Robert.Dockstader@uvm.edu) by email of their choice of episode. Episodes will have been allotted first come, first served, with no two schools doing the same episode. It might be possible for schools to choose the same verb, but we will have tried to avoid duplication. All students should review the basic plot of all of these episodes to make sure that they will be familiar with the skits they are watching.
1. 151-62 Gigantomachy: struo, perfrego, excutio, perfundo
1. 313-415 Deucalion and Pyrrha: cresco, iacto, iacio, muto, mitto
1. 452-567 Apollo and Daphne: figo, cupio, uror, video, fugio, (in)sequor, curro
2. 1-400 Phaethon: dubito, rogo, peto, opto, ago, patior, moneo, tango, fero, ardeo, cado
2. 401-530 Jupiter and Callisto: sentio, nescio, fio
2. 833-75 Jupiter and Europa: miror, metuo, audio, paveo, abeo
3. 138-252 Actaeon: erro, spargeo, narro, cognoscere, fugio, sequor, gemo, clamo, quaero
3. 253-315 Semele: fallo, simulo, amplector, ardeo
3. 339-510 Narcissus and Echo: adsum, fugio, tango, placeo,
4. 604-803 Perseus and Andromeda: volo, supervolo, verbero, resolvo
5. 359-571 Pluto and Proserpina: carpo, decerpo, ludo, rapio, morior, vertor
6. 1-145 Arachne and Minerva: certo, contendo, designo, pingo,
6. 146-312 Niobe: antepono, postpono, praefero, parco, occido, relinquo, moveo, fleo
6. 412-674 Tereus, Procne and Philomela: audio, cupio, volo, tremo, intexo, vescor
7. 1-158 Jason and Medea: iungo, vereor, cogo, spargo
7. 159-293 Aeson Rejuvenated: addo, renovo, (in)coquo, miror
8. 183-235 Daedalus and Icarus: surgo, pendo, hortor, ago, volo (fly)
8. 260-546 Meleager and the Calydonian Boar: ostendo, memoro, mitto, invideo, clamo, ulciscor, servo, pugno, cremo, ignosco, pereo, vivo, morior, vinco
10. 1-85 Orpheus and Eurydice: occido, oro, posco, fleo, incedo, flecto, relabor
10. 243-97 Pygmalion and Paphos: careo, sculpo, orno, incumbo, mollesco, stupeo, gaudeo
10. 1-85 Death of Orpheus: cano, conicio, queror, peto, invenio, respicio
10. 85-145 Midas Touch: gaudeo, tango or contingo, lavo, rigeo, premo, pecco, tingo
15. 745-870 The Catasterism of Julius Caesar: facio, mereo(r), gero, possum, fero, mico
For an online translation of the Metamorphoses, see the site of A. S. Kline at: http://www.tonykline.co.uk/
Click on Latin on his homepage and scroll down to Ovid.
For the Latin text and other translations, see the Perseus site at:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html
Click on Texts and scroll down to Ovid.
Suggestions for the skits:
1) Remember that it is impossible to do a whole episode of Ovid in four minutes: choose a central or defining Verb in the episode for your skit. Remember that Verbs must have Agents (nominative subjects for active and deponent forms; ablative with a or ab with passive forms). These Agents are the Protagonists of your little drama.
2) Singing or chanting lyrics together might enhance your skit. And to the choral songs why not add dancing?
3) Costumes are especially important.
4) Use of Latin sentences and phrases in the dialogue and/or songs of your skit will earn special/extra consideration from the judges . If there is to be some kind of Latin text, please supply a copy for the judges either by email in advance or at the Registration Desk when you arrive.
5) And do not forget that you must limit the skit to four minutes onstage, and no more than one minute for getting on and off stage and setting up the scenery.
Prepared Readings in Latin for Juniores (levels 1-2) and Seniores (levels 3-4)F
For the Seniores: All Seniores teams should read carefully the following text. It would be helpful if they could also explain the text to their younger colleagues in the first and second-year Latin classes.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1. 76-88:
Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae
deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset.
natus homo est, sive hunc divino semine fecit
ille opifex rerum, mundi melioris origo,
sive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab alto
aethere cognati retinebat semina caeli,
quam satus Iapeto mixtam pluvialibus undis
finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum.
pronaque cum spectent animalia cetera terram,
os homini sublime dedit caelumque videre
iussit et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.
sic modo quae fuerat rudis et sine imagine tellus
induit ignotas hominum conversa figuras.
Notes: Ovid's thoughts on the origin of human beings.
76: Sanctius from sanctus,-a,-um: neuter comparative, modifying animal.
capacius from capax: neuter comparative, modifying animal.
mentis …altae: genitive, dependent upon capacius.
77: deerat from desum.
quod… posset: relative clause of purpose = ut … posset
The antecedent of quod is animal.
dominari: from dominor + in + accusative; deponent "be the master over"
78: sive …sive (80). Ovid is suggesting two possible origins of humanity, either by the god
who created the world out of chaos (described in Met. 1. 5-75), or by the son of Iapetus (Prometheus), who fashioned humanity out of a mixture of earth and water.
79: opifex rerum: "creator of things," "creator of nature."
origo: in apposition with opifex.
80: recens: "newly-made," "fresh"
seducta: from seduco: "drawn from," "separated from"
nuper: "lately"
ab alto: "from on high"
81: cognati … caeli: "of kindred sky." Ovid draws on the tradition that nature contained four
elements: earth, air, fire, and water.
82: quam: the antecedent is tellus.
pluvialibus undis: ablative of means, literally " with rainy waves," i.e. "with the waters
of rain."
83: finxit: from fingo; "fashioned."
moderantum: participle from modero, genitive plural, modifying deorum.
84: prona: modifying animalia cetera
cum spectent…terram: adversative cum-clause requiring the subjunctive (translate
"although./while…")
85: os: accusative, direct object of dedit.
homini: dative, indirect object of dedit.
sublime: modifies os: "uplifted"
dedit : subject is satus Iapeto "the one born from Iapetus, i.e. Prometheus"
87: modo: "just recently"
quae: antecedent is tellus (at the end of 87).
88: induit: "put on, dressed herself in"
ignotas …figuras: direct object of induit.
For the Juniores: This passage is a prose paraphrase of Ovid's description of the origin of the world, including the origin of humanity (the passage above for the Seniores):
In principio confusio rerum erat. Illa confusio Chaos appellabatur. Postea (later) omnia elementa distributa sunt in partes suas, levissima corpora, id est igneusaether, in caelo, gravissima autem (qualis humus et aqua), subsederunt. Itaque separata erat terra a ceteris elementis, sed homo nondum natus est, qui terrae ipsius futurus erat cultor atque dominus. Itaque Prometheus, Iapeti filius, terram imbre mollivit et ex hac hominem ad imaginem deorum finxit, cui facies non prona est, sicut ceteris animalibus, sed spectat in caelum.
confusio: confusio, confusionis f. = confusion
levissima: superlative adjective from levis, leve 'light' (in weight)
igneus: adjective from ignis, ignis 'fire'
aether: aether, aetheris m. 'upper air' (cf. English 'ether.')
subsederunt: subsideo , subsidere, subsedi, subsessum 'settle down."
ceteris: ceteri, ceterae, cetera 'all the rest'
ipsius: from ipse, ipsa, ipsum, modifies terrae, 'itself'
mollivit: mollio, mollire, molivi 'make soft'
finxit: fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum 'fashion, shape'
facies: facies, faciei f. 'face'
prona: pronus, prona, pronum 'downwards, looking downwards'
Suggestions for the Individual Displays: In additionto the wide range of cultural dislplays, considersome of the following suggestions:
1) Pictorial representations of Ovid's myth.
2) Charts of verbal transformations (conjugational forms).
3) Charts of semantic categories of verbs: linking verbs, transitive verbs, verbs of motion, verbs of speaking, asking, commanding, fearing.
4) Charts of clauses that require the subjunctive mood.
5) Charts of passive forms with ablatives of agent
4) Charts of English words derived from Latin verb forms.
5) Quotations from Latin authors that contain striking use of verbs.
6) Architectural forms (e.g,, houses, temples, amphitheaters, hippodromes, etc.) labeled with verbs pertaining to them (eating,sleeping, praying, contending, racing, etc.)
7) Verbs in cooking.
8) Verb usages in Latin oratory.
PROBATIO PARTICULARS:
The formal Probatio Juniorum et Certamen Seniorum will take place on the West Court of the Patrick Gym in a written format. Some questions will be based on the Latin readings (the prose paraphrase of Ovid's description of the origin of the world for the Juniores and the Ovid's actual description of the the origin of the world for the Seniores). While the Competitores (Teams) are hard at work on the West Court of the Patrick Gym the Spectatores (Audience) and the Magistri will have a Mini-Probatio with similar questions.
!!! Special Instructions for the Mini-Probatio (10:00-10:15)!!!
This year as last, with a view to imposing some order onto chaos, the Mini-Probatio will be run as follows. Instead of receiving answers by spontaneous acclamation from the crowd of Spectatores, the Magister will ask a series of questions. 15 seconds per question will be allotted for schools to "huddle" together and write down the answer on an answer sheet. (These sheets will be provided to each school in the Teacher's packet.) After all the questions have been asked, and answers have been committed to paper, the Magister will summon to the stage a Praeco, or herald, previously appointed by his or her school, who will be prepared to give the school's answer when called upon by the Magister. Though every school will be given the opportunity to answer a question, it will not know in advance which of the questions it will be called upon to answer. To determine this, the Magister or his assistant will randomly draw the name of a school from a hat, and the Praeco for the school that is selected will come to the microphone and declare his/her school's response. If the answer is correct, loud cheers, horns, whistles will be sounded as sportulae of chocolate kisses (chocolata oscula) are showered upon the successful contingent. If incorrect, the Magister will solicit the audience for the correct answer and proceed immediately to the next question, drawing a new school name out of the hat. This procedure will continue until all the questions have been answered.
Only 15 minutes is allotted to the entire Mini-Probatio, so orderly cooperation is the key. Also note that this new format requires each school to appoint a Praeco from its ranks in advance of Latin Day. Please indicate the name of your Praeco on the registration sheet. Final Bonus: The Praecones who report a correct answer will be given a special prize to bring back to their delegation!
This year teachers, situated at the top of the stands, left, right, and center and at the lower part of the stands, left and right, would be given red flags to wave if the question from the Magister is inaudible; further: the Magister will spell out any Latin words and make every effort to make the question both audible and clear.
!!! Instructions for the Probatio and Certamen:
The teams of the Probatio and Certamen will compete at the same time, each assigned to a special place in the Gymnastics Room.
Probatio questions will be appropriate to the level of Latin studied (Juniores: 1 to 2 years of Latin; Seniores: 3 to 4 years of Latin). Teams will receive 20 questions worth two points each, falling into three categories: 5 on culture (Greek and Latin literature, especially Greek drama, history, myth, art and architecture), 10 on Grammar (forms) and Syntax (usage) and 5 on interpretation, translation and composition based upon the Latin texts included with this packet. The team of up to 6 members (Competitores) will compete for ribbons, the Blue (30-40 points), the Red (20-29 points) and the Yellow (0-19 points). Each Team member will receive a sheet containing the 20 questions, but the Team Captain is responsible for submitting one sheet with the answers decided upon by the Team. Starting and Ending times will be clearly announced. A Marshal will stand by each team to provide logistical assistance and to collect the completed papers. The results of these contests are published in the Vermont Classical Languages Association (VCLA) newsletter and are reported by letter to each school's principal.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS:
Grammar :
1. Give the principal parts of tango, cedo, sum, parco, curro, mitto, vinco.
2. Give the dative singular and plural of rex, vinum, fortitudo, dies, manus.
3. Give the accusative singular of tempus, amicus, domus, gladius, corpus.
4. Give the present, active, subjunctive of video, vito, fugio, audio, habito.
5. Give the 2nd person plural imperfect indicative of hortor, labor, mentior, utor.
6. Give the case governed by each: ad, sine, inter, infra, sub, super.
7. What mood is required for an indirect question?
8. What is the fourth principal part of a verb called?
9. Give the dative singular of all genders of hic, haec, hoc.
10. Give the present subjunctive singular of volo in all three persons.
11. Give the present active participle of amo, doceo, volo, audio.
12. Give the perfect passive participle of amo, doceo, volo, audio.
13. Give the future passive participle (gerundive) of amo, doceo, volo, audio.
Vocabulary :
1. Give an English derivative from the following Latin words: bos, bovis; atrox; nullus/a/um; stultus/a/um; suavis/e; mittere; sequi; capere.
2. What is the Latin for: to stand; to lead; to seek; to ask; to make?
3. What is the English of: os, oris; os, ossis; sanguis, sanguinis?
4. Give an English derivative for each of the three nouns in question 3.
5. What semantic category do the following words belong to: cibus, prandium, cena, manduco, edo, and bibo.
6. Give five verbs of intransitive motion.
Greek and Roman History, Literature, Geography, Art :
1. What is the date of the foundation of Rome?
2. When was Cicero's consulship?
3. When did Augustus die?
4. When was Gaius Julius Caesar born?
5. How many books are there in the Aeneid ?
6. What was the name of the horse Caligula made a senator?
7. Who was Elissa?
8. When was the battle of Actium?
9. Who said "alea iacta est"? In what century?
10. What was the name of Alexander's Bactrian princess?
11. How many poets competed at the same time in the performances of Athenian tragedy?
12. Who was the son of Clytemestra?
13. Name a daughter of Agamemnon .
14. Who was the wife of King Priam of Troy?
15. Give any name of the Greek god of wine.
16. Under what emperor did Seneca the Younger die?
17. Which Greek dramatist produced a satyr play entitled Cyclops?
18. In what year did Aeschylus produce the Oresteia trilogy?
Mythology :
1. What is the Latin name for Zeus, Artemis, Hermes, Athena, Hera?
2. What god chased Daphne?
3. What god invented the lyre?
4. Who was the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus?
5. Who was the mother of Helen and Clytemnestra?
6. What are two names of Aeneas' son?
7. Who was Dido's husband?
8. Who killed Turnus?
9. Who was the father of Romulus and Remus?
10. Who is the messenger of the gods?
SCORING INFORMATION
Separate Ribbons will be awarded for Skits and the Probatio on a scale of 1-40 points: 30-40 points = blue ribbon; 20-29 points = red ribbon; 1-19 points = yellow ribbon. Ribbons will also be awarded for Displays (see below under Displays).
The Skits will be judged on conception, costume, clarity of representation, and text (optional, but if text is used, present a copy to the judges in advance). SKITS ARE TO BE NO LONGER THAN 4 MINUTES plus 30 seconds for getting on stage and 30 seconds for getting off. Instruction in use of the microphones will be given at 9:00 a.m. at the Registration Desk. Points will be deducted for exceeding the time limits.
Displays: 10 points awarded for the winning of a blue ribbon for a display—maximum of 20 points credited toward silver bowl. Ribbons individually awarded at the discretion of the judges. NOTE: Judges will be impressed by creativity, cohesion, neatness of presentation, and relevance to Greek and Roman antiquity and to the ancient languages.
Probatio: All questions are worth 2 points each. There will be 5 questions on culture (history, myth, art, etc.); 10 questions on grammar and syntax; 5 questions on interpretation, translation or composition
Awarding of the Silver Bowl: Two silver bowls will be presented: one to a large school (total enrollments above 600) and one to a small school.
Bowls will be won by the schools with the greatest number of total points scored for: 1) Skit (40 points maximum); 2) Juniores Probatio (40 points maximum); 3) Displays (20 points maximum); no points will be given for the Mini-Probatio (see pp. 7-8).
In order to alleviate the inequity produced by some schools having both Juniores and Seniores teams only the Juniores Probatio score will be counted toward the silver bowl. The Seniores teams will compete for a special plaque to be known as the Senior Probatio Question Reward (SPQR ) . The winning school's name will be engraved on the Plaque, and it will be housed at the winning school until the next Latin Day. (If there is a tie, both school names will be engraved and the plaque will reside at each school for six months.)
Special Awards (not credited toward Silver Bowl or Seniorum Probatio Plaque):
SPQR Number 2: SUNT PORCI QUIDAM ROMANI (Certain Romans are pigs!) Please help clean up the area where your school is seated (garbage bags will be provided). At the end of the day a panel of esteemed judges may designate an award called SPQR Number 2!
REGISTRATION -- LATIN DAY
April 7, 2006
Please copy and return this form by March 10, 2006 to: Robert Dockstader, Jr.
Classics Department, UVM, 481 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05405-0218; e-mail: Robert.Dockstader@uvm.edu
Name of School:_________________________________________________________
Principal's name:_________________________________________________________
Teacher's Name(s) :______________________________________________________
Number of Students attending_______ Number of miles traveled one way________
Number of buses_______ Number of buses remaining all day_______
Number of students enrolled in grades 9-12___________ Number of Latin students_______
Give the Title of your Skit and the Tragedy on which it is based. If there is an extended text in Latin or English, please bring copies for the Judges or send them with this Registration Form.
Title and Tragedy______________________________________________________________________
Number of display(s)___________________________ Each school will be allowed two 8-foot tables maximum space. Do you need any special equipment (e.g. extension cords, VCR)?
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Will you have a Jr. team for the Probatio? ___________________ Sr.?__________________
Name of Junior team captain_____________________________________________
Names of the other 5 Jr. team members (6 members altogether): _____________________________________________
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Name of Senior team captain_____________________________________________
Names of the other 5 Senior team members (6 members altogether): ___________________________________________
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Name of Mini-Probatio Praeco ____________________