Saturnalia Latin Quiz

Author Tanquil Sergius
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1. During the Saturnalia festival, in family homes, the lowest slave became the master for a day. He had reason to say: "Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi!" What is the meaning of this expression?
   A)  What Iovis likes, a cow likes too!
   B)  Iuppiter says, that today is my day!
   C)  What Iuppiter is allowed, is not allowed to a cow!
   D)  What Iuppiter likes about me, is that I am a cow.

2. Saturnalia is the festival in honor of Saturnus, father of Iuppiter and god of the Golden Age. What is this Golden Age called in Latin?
   A)  Media Aetas
   B)  Ferrea Aetas
   C)  Aetas Aetatis
   D)  Saturnia Aetas

3. On Saturnalia, you can wear all kinds of silly stuff, like the typical pointed Saturnalia cap. What is this cap called in Latin?
   A)  crapula
   B)  pileus
   C)  galea
   D)  gladius

4. What we do on the Saturnalia festival dinner and on many more Saturnalia occasions: drink and sing! Here’s a part of a typical Roman drinking song: "Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus!" Whose words are these?
   A)  Vergil
   B)  Heraklia Aelius
   C)  Paullus Fabius
   D)  Horace

5. Why is Saturnus such a popular god among the Romans? They wrote it down themselves in a myth: "Iuppiter puer Saturnum Olympo pellit et in Latinum fugat. In Latio Saturnus latet apud Latinos." What is the best translation of this story?
   A)  Iuppiter flees from the Olympus in fear of Saturnus; he then lives in Latium with the Latini.
   B)  Iuppiter and Saturnus throw the first Saturnalia party in Latium with the Latini.
   C)  Iuppiter doesn’t want Saturnus to create the festival of Saturnalia
   D)  Iuppiter hails the fact that Saturnus has created the Saturnalia festival in Latium