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LATIN 116
Latin 116 Final Examination (after the fact)

on Ovid's Metamorphoses I

passage 6

Coniugis augurio quamquam Titania mota est,               395
spes tamen in dubio est: adeo caelestibus ambo
diffidunt monitis; sed quid temptare nocebit?
descendunt: velantque caput tunicasque recingunt
et iussos lapides sua post vestigia mittunt.
saxa (quis hoc credat, nisi sit pro teste vetustas?)               400
ponere duritiem coepere suumque rigorem
mollirique mora mollitaque ducere formam.

mox ubi creverunt naturaque mitior illis
contigit, ut quaedam, sic non manifesta videri
forma potest hominis, sed uti de marmore coepta               405
non exacta satis rudibusque simillima signis,
quae tamen ex illis aliquo pars umida suco
et terrena fuit, versa est in corporis usum;
quod solidum est flectique nequit, mutatur in ossa,
quae modo vena fuit, sub eodem nomine mansit,               410
inque brevi spatio superorum numine saxa
missa viri manibus faciem traxere virorum
et de femineo reparata est femina iactu.

Use the picture you have been given as a guide (click here for bigger view)

1. Explain what the temple is doing there (this is from the reading you were supposed to do that filled you in about the passages we didn’t read in Latin). Be as detailed as possible. Where are they? Who is the goddess? Why do they visit her? What do they learn? Who is this “they”?

2. Translate lines 398-399 (10 pts) (use the picture!)

3. Translate 409-410 (10 pts):

quod solidum est flectique nequit, mutatur in ossa,
quae modo vena fuit, sub eodem nomine mansit,

4. form of flecti? (5 pts)

5. form of mutatur? (5 pts)

6. So what is the physical proof, given here, that we were molded from the earth? (5 pts)

7. How was the female population of the earth restored? Provide the Latin clause/sentence/line and then translate it literally: (5 pts)

return to 116 Final Exam list of questions

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